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Atwood leads wrestlers in Vegas Braden Atwood posted Purdue's lone podium finish over the weekend at the Cliff Keen Invitational. The Boilermakers finished 21st at the event, which featured some of the nation's best teams. Atwood finished with a 4-2 record at 197 pounds, where he is currently ranked 19th nationally. Purdue (2-1 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) returns to the mat this weekend with a dual match against Tennessee-Chattanooga on Sunday. Reto, Hernandez earn tour cards Former Boilermakers Paula Reto and Maria Hernandez earned their LPGA Tour Cards this week, both posting top-15 finishes at the Stage III LPGA Qualifying Tournament. Hernandez placed ninth while Reto finished 13th. Hernandez's finish helped her retain her LPGA card while Reto earns hers for the first time following her Purdue career. The 2014 LPGA season starts Jan. 23. Divers head to nationals cords en route to the honor. Bunch After two weeks won the women's off, Purdue's diving weight throw and team will return to shot put events action next week. with record distancThe Boilermakers es of 21.72 meters will travel to Ausand 16.77 meters, tin, Texas, for the respectively. EnUSA Winter Diving ekwechi broke the Nationals event Purdue record in Chukwuebuka Enekwechi on Tuesday and the weight throw Wednesday. with an event-winThe swimming teams re- ning distance of 22.19 meters. main off until Jan. 10 when Winters won the 60-meter both teams will return to Big hurdles event, and Plenus's Ten competition with dual 800-meter winmatches against Michigan. ning time was the fastest in Four earn the nation so conference honors far this season. The track and field teams In all, the opened the indoor season this B o i l e r m a k e r s past weekend at the Mastodon won 12 events Opener, and they did so in on the day, dominant fashion, sweeping posting mulall four of the Big Ten's initial tiple top finishweekly honors. ers in several Throwers Dani Bunch and events. Chukwuebuka Enekwechi won Aarin Jones' Big Ten Athletes-of-the-Week 400-meter vicwhile sprinter Brandon Winters tory led a topand distance runner Megan four sweep for Plenus took home Big Ten Run- the Boilermakners-of-the-Week. ers while Nikki Bunch and Enekwechi took Nunn and Cierra down a number of Purdue re- Brown's wins in the long jump and triple jump headlined top-three sweeps in those events. Addison Hall's consistency helped propel her to the Pentathlon title, winning the long jump event and finishing no worse than third in any of the five events. On the men's side, Tyler Askew won the long jump with Demetrius Carr finishing second. Meanwhile, Enekwechi and Coy Blair traded first and second place in the shot put and weight throw events, with Blair winning the shot put. The track and field teams continue indoor competition after the winter holidays, resuming on Jan. 11 when they host the Gene Edmonds Cup. j GoldanDBlack express • volume 24, express 14 • 28