Oostman Earns All-Conference Honors With Third-Place Finish in Heptathlon
Wabash College sophomore Jake Oostman captured third place in the heptathlon Sunday on the final day of the 2023 North Coast Athletic Conference Multi-Events Championships. His top-three finish earned him all-conference honors and six team points in the indoor track and field championships.
Oostman scored 4,413 points to finish third behind conference champion Jacob Brown from Denison with a score of 4,669 points. Davis Patterson from Wooster also earned all-conference honors with 4,641 points.
Oostman scored 717 points in Sunday’s first event, the 60-meter hurdles, finishing in a career-best time of 9.13. He added a career-best effort in the pole vault by clearing 3.24 meters (10 feet, 7.5 inches) to earn 416 points. Oostman added another 518 points with a career-best time of 3:15.74 in the 1,000-meter run, the last event of the heptathlon.
Senior Giovonni Zappala scored 3,831 points overall to earn sixth place in the competition. He scored 759 points by finishing the 60-meter hurdles in 8.94. Zappala cleared 2.74 meters (8 feet, 11.75 inches) to earn 296 points. He ended the day with a 572-point effort in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:09.76.
Zappala’s sixth-place finish netted the Wabash team three more points for nine, heading into next weekend’s main portion of the indoor track and field championships. Denison leads the scoring with 10 points. Wooster earned eight points for third place behind Wabash in the team scoring.
Landon Miller finished the two-day competition with 3,185 points. He ran a career-best time of 10.74 in the 60-meter hurdles to earn 410 points. Miller cleared the bar at 2.14 meters (7 feet, 0.25 inches) to score 167 points. He picked up another 588 points by finishing the 1,000-meter run in a career-best time of 3:08.04
The 2023 NCAC Indoor Track and Field Championships begin Friday, February 24, at DePauw University and conclude Saturday, February 25.
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