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ing 47 strikeouts to place finish in the high only nine walks. jump, respectively. Alex Whittemore Purdue tied with has also been strong Georgia and Florida in the circle this year, State for 18th place largely out of the bullwhile finishing fifth pen. Posting a 0.50 ERA, among Big Ten teams. Whittemore has only While the women's allowed one earned team did not score run in 14 innings. or place, both Dani Andie Varsho leads Chukwuebuka Enekwechi Bunch and Vanessa the Boilers with a .425 McLeod competed at batting average and the championships, has team-leading slugging (.521) finishing in the top-15 in both of and on-base (.468) percentages as their events. well as stolen bases (12). Both the men's and women's The Boilermakers will travel to track and field teams will return to Texas over Purdue's spring break action when they open the outto play against Sam Houston State door season at the Shamrock InviTuesday before playing at Hous- tational in Myrtle Beach, S.C. ton on Thursday. Boilers finish 18th at NCAAs The men's track and field team completed a strong indoor season with a top-20 finish at the NCAA Championships. Jakob Engel, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi and Geoff Davis scored for the Boilermakers. Engel finished eighth in the shot put on Friday to give Purdue its first points. On Saturday, Enekwechi and Davis put Purdue in the top 20 with a third-place finish in the weight throw and fifth- Tennis teams head to the coasts Both the men's and women's tennis teams have jumped out to impressive starts to the 2013 season and will look to improve their records over spring break as they head for warmer climates. The men (11-3) visit Fresno State on Wednesday before traveling to Santa Clara on Saturday. Once the Boilermakers return home, they will open Big Ten conference play the following week. Purdue's women's team (7- qualifying for the NCAA Championships. The swimmers will be at the Zone C Diving Championship that Purdue hosts Thursday through Saturday. Purdue's divers will travel to Swimming and Bloomington for the Indiana Invidiving in action tational the same days. j Wrestling The swimming finishes ninth at Big Ten and diving team will Ivan Lopouchanski Championships be in action this week Purdue qualified but will be in separate four individuals for this month's events and separate locations as NCAA Championship while three competitors have one final shot at more are eligible for at-large bids after the team finished ninth at this past weekend's Big Ten Championships. The Boilermakers had five top-10 finishers and tallied 38 points. Penn State won the conference championship with 151 points. Ivan Lopouchanski finished third at 149 pounds and Brandon Nelson was fourth at 141 pounds while Camden Eppert, Chad Welch and Braden Atwood each turned in eighthplace finishes at the event. DISCOVERY IS OUR MISSION Nelson, Lopouchanski, Welch and Atwood are auwww.cancerresearch.purdue.edu tomatically qualified for the NCAA Championships that begin March 21. 1) enters spring break riding a six-match winning streak and faces off against Winthrop and Florida International on Thursday and Friday in Miami. Eppert, Tommy Churchard and Cashe Quiroga are eligible for at-large bids that will be announced later this week. FINDING A CURE IS OUR GOAL GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 25 • 34