Former Aberdeen High School teammates Amanda Deller and Shannel Shivers came up with big performances in the shot put at separate indoor track and field meets Saturday.
Deller, a UMBC junior, threw a personal best of 47 feet, 8 inches in placing fifth in the Penn State National meet. The mark, 2 inches beyond her previous best, maintains her No. 2 ranking on the UMBC all-time performance list in the shot put.
Shivers, a senior, set a Towson University school record of 43-7 in winning the Thomson Invitational at the University of Delaware. She bettered by 11 inches the school's indoor mark set by teammate Shianna Smith last year and eclipsed the school's outdoor record as well.
Shivers, who also holds the Towson record in the hammer throw, placed second in the 20-pound weight throw Saturday, the indoor equivalent of the hammer, at 52-7 3/4. In that event, Deller spun the weight 51-9 for 13th place at Penn State.
Shivers set the Harford County shot put record at Aberdeen High School in 2007. Deller broke Shiver's record a year later and extended it as a senior in 2009.
Also in the Delaware meet, Evan Campbell of Fallston won the high jump for Towson, clearing 5-7 and winning by a margin of 4 inches. She led off the Tigers' 4x400 relay that placed third in 4:10.7.
Competing for Towson, John Carroll grad Elizabeth Tauber finished fourth in the 3000 meters in 10:45.89, and C. Milton Wright grad Hannah McKenzie took fifth in the 5000 in 19:11.37. Towson placed second as a team in the field of 24 colleges behind Delaware.
Aberdeen alumnus Damian Cruz, a freshman at Holy Family University, placed fifth in the 200 dash in 23.29.
For Salisbury University, Kara Tolson, a Patterson Mill grad, placed second in the 200 in 27.47 and third in the 60 in 8.25.
Brooke Schulz (CMW)) competed in her first meet for Salisbury. The freshman ran on the Seagulls' 4x400 relay, which placed sixth.
High school indoor track
John Carroll's indoor track team tuned up for the MIAA-IAAM Championships in the Last Track to Philly meet at Georgetown Prep in Bethesda Saturday.
Holly Cook placed fourth in the mile in 5:28.37 and Ben Pickett, sixth in the 3200 in 9:52.30. Derek Alban was seventh in the mile in 4:40.37 and Dave Knaide, third in the B mile in 4:43.61.
In field events, Rebecca Driver placed third at 4-8 in the high jump. Shannon Vinton also cleared 4-8 to place seventh. Austin Markley took fourth in the pole vault at 11-6.
In local road racing...
The Stevenson brothers, David and Rob, led the field of 55 finishers in the RASAC Fox 5K Sunday in Bel Air. David finished first in 19:40, and Rob second in 19:51 over a course in the Foxborough Farms development.
Kirk Ingold placed third in 20:04; Duane Christy, fourth in 20:42; and Scott Walton, fifth in 20:48.
Sarah Zephir-Thomason won the women's race in 21:33. Jen Meis, 21:59; Lorrie Chieffo, 22:44; Debbie Felts, 22:49; and Ana Miller, 23:42, finished in the top five.
In other races...
Noah Hutton of White Hall won the mile in 4:32.8 and finished third in the 800 in 2:06.3 running unattached in the Hagerstown Community College Open indoor meet Saturday. In the same meet, Shea Staab of Fallston placed fifth in the 3000 meters for Goucher College in 12:21.4, and Jen Bower of Frostburg (CMW) placed ninth in 13:33.5.
Jessica Rogers of Bel Air won the 11-12 girls 1600-meter run in 5:45 in the Prince George's All-comers indoor meet Jan. 22.
Former Harford County resident Allan Phillips ran 2:43:30 in the Houston Marathon Jan. 15, placing 73rd among 7,600. Wife Katherine Phillips placed seventh in the women's 5K in 18:28. The couple resides in Tucson, Ariz.