Zips sports news, features and notes
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
- Kent State-Akron in-game updates: Kent State wins 4-3
- Kent State 5, Akron 4 in 17 innings: Diamond Classic turns into real gem
- On the record: Ohio State, UA and KSU college roundup and recruiting news
- On the Record — May 14
- College sports — May 12
- Akron men, KSU women win MAC track titles
- College sports roundup: Zips football transfer, MAC track championships, Flashes, Zips baseball
- Colorado QB Nick Hirschman to transfer to Akron; will be given a chance to start
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ONE POINT FROM A SWEEP
Track
If not for one measley point, Akron's men would have joined the women as MAC Champions.
Still, it was the highest finish ever for the men, and the fifth championship in the last six track seasons for the women.
Akron's Dennis Mitchell earned the Women's Coach of the Year Award. Stevi Large was the Women's Outdoor Athlete of the Year.
The women extended a two-point lead they held after day two to a 19-point trouncing of second-place Western Michigan. The men nearly completed a comeback after being in third place early in the weekend. Eastern Michigan (182 points) edged the Zips by one point in a three-team race that Kent State (178) was in, as well.
The men's title came down to the final event of the weekend -- the 4x400 relay, which the Eagles won by nine-tenths of a second over Akron's foursome.
Natalie Sako helped the Zips mount their lead by winning the high jump conference championship.
I plan to have more on this tomorrow.
