The Denison men's indoor track and field team turned in an eighth-place finish at the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference Relays on Saturday from Oberlin, Ohio.  The Big Red totaled 22 points at the event.  Wabash College walked away with the team title after edging second-place Ohio Wesleyan by 2.5 points.

Denison was led at the conference-wide event by a pair of fourth-place finishes.  The first came from senior Steven Gallego (Lyndhurst, N.J./New Canaan [Conn.]) in the men's shot put after his throw of 42'8.75".  His teammate, Wendell Taylor (Cincinnati, Ohio/St. Xavier), followed in 16th place with a distance of 36'4.25".  The duo would earn Denison 2.5 team points.

The top-scoring event for DU ended up being the 4x200 relay which saw Brett Ayers (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor), Pat Effinger (Pickerington, Ohio/North), Win Fox (Lancaster, Ohio/Columbus Academy) and Chris Roth (Milwaukee, Wis./University School) combine for a time of 1:37.35.  The time landed Denison in fourth-place in the event and awarded the team five points.

Fox would return in the 4x800 relay along with Stephen Czujko (Silver Spring, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel), Todd Johnson (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles), and Joe Thackery (Springboro, Ohio/Springboro) to place fifth in 8:35.81.

In the men's distance medley relay, Chad Kosanovich (Sewickley, Pa./Quaker Valley), Michael Cohen (Houston, Texas/St. Thomas), Todd Johnson and Czujko took seventh in 11:02.27 and in the 4x400 relay it was Cohen, Ivanhoe Hall (Chicago, Ill./Walter Payton Prep), Effinger and Thackery to placed eighth.

Denison's point-scorers would be rounded out in the 5,000 meter relay where Steven Johnson (Xenia, Ohio/Bellbrook) and Dan Doggett (Byfield, Mass./The Governor's Academy) took 13th and 15th place, respectively.  Johnson covered the 5K in 16:11.84 and Doggett crossed the finish line in 16:13.99.

Denison will return to action next Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Greater Columbus Division III Invitational hosted by Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.