The Monmouth College track and field team battled through a bout of food poisoning through the first two days of the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Canton, N.Y., completing five of their six events.

      Sprinters Raimius Foulkes, Ethan Reschke and Adam Parr were stricken with the illness, but still managed to compete in three preliminary races on opening day. Running in a weakened condition the trio missed qualifying for the finals of the 200-meter dash and the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. Austin Ray and Matthew Trainor joined the threesome for the 4x1 and 4x4, respectively. By the last race of the day on Thursday – the 4x4 – the Scots were unable to finish the event. Foulkes narrowly missing qualifying for the finals of the 200, clocking a 21.60 and missing the cut by a mere 15-one-hundredths of a second.

      Still suffering the effects on Friday, Reschke and Foulkes gutted their way through the 400-meter dash prelims where they had entered with third and sixth-fastest times in the nation. Foulkes clocked a 48.67, just 21-hundredths out of the final qualifying spot for the finals, finishing 12^th overall. Reschke came in 14^th with a 48.89.

      Monmouth's field event entrants avoided the bad food and turned in ninth and 15^th place performances.

      Joe Ward narrowly missed earning his first All-American award in the pole vault. The junior's height of 16'0-1/2" came within his lifetime best by 3/4" and tied Christian Rhodes of Wabash for eighth, but Ward placed ninth – one spot out of All-American status – due to the number of attempts at the height.

      Erin Maul wrapped up her Fighting Scot career placing 15^th in the hammer throw. She slung the ball and chain 166'3", just over 6' from an eighth place finish and her first All-American award.

      No Scots were scheduled to compete in Saturday's events.