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Four School Records Fall As Mounties Compete At Oregon Relays and Pacific Twilight Meets

Eugene Oregon, April 30 & May 1— A small group of Mountie athletes competed in the Oregon Relays, one of the top meets in the Northwest, and came away with several stong performances. On Friday Sarah Hanchett, Brian Brag, Chris Dilley, and Karlee Coffey competed in the first day of the meet. Hanchett, Bragg, and Dilley all turned in solid performances, however Coffey kicked off a string of impressive performances at the meet. In the 10,000m run she ran a new personal best by nearly 90 seconds, and set a new school record by over 55 seconds. Dilley kicked things off on Saturday with a consistent series in the hammer throw, finishing third, and was just a few feet of his personal best. Shortly afterwards Alma Garcilazo won her heat of the 800m run and broke her own school record. In the very next event, Ryan Booth and Andrew Perri finished 10th and 13th respectively in the men’s 800m. Both athletes ran personal bests, and were under the old school record. In the final event for the mounties, Kimmy Moore and Grace Deboodt joined Hanchett and Garcilazo in the 4x400m relay.

Forest Grove Oregon, May 1— The impressive performances continued for the Mounties at the Pacific Twilight Meet. The throws crew turned in a very solid day, highlighted by Ashlee Michelson, with a personal best in the hammer, a seasons best in the shot put, and a college best in the Discus. While, Mitch Wheelhouse threw a seasons best and Jake Wilcox and Tyler Bruck had personal bests in the discus. On the track the sprinters had a quality day. Kelsey Kinzer lead the way for the women with a season best in the 100 and a big new personal best in the 200, while Drew Wise dipped under 50.0 in the 400 and ran very well in the 4x400 too. For the long distance runners, Terry Johnsen had a breakthrough race with a 27 second PR and the win in the 5,000m. Just missing the NAIA automatic qualifier. In the Steeplechase Nancy Cardenas, Christy Roe, Zach Seely and Michael Wanta all set new personal bests as well. The meet ended with two quality performances when the foursome of Talissa Baldovino, Sierra Engler, Jessianne Heley and Sarah Hanchett slipped in under the NAIA auto time in the 4x800 by 1.5 seconds to run 9:33.50. Then, not to be outdone, the men's 4x400 saved some fireworks for the end with the fourth school record of the weekend. The quartet of Ryan Booth, Dustin Cloud, Andrew Perri and Wise also set a new meet record by over 4 seconds.
The Mounties will have a weekend off before the Cascade Conference Championships May 13-15 at Mt Hood Community College.

Mounties Get Two NAIA Qualifiers, One School Record At NNU Invite

Nampa Idaho, April 24— Today’s action at the Northwest Nazarene Invite was highlighted by a gutsy performance in the women’s 400 hurdles and a flyer in the women’s 800 and some other quality marks/performances despite cool, breezy temps.

For the women, sophomore Kimmy Moore used a gutsy finish to drop a half second off her PR (64.92) from last year and close to a second off her season best of 65.35 in the 400 hurdles to surpass the NAIA Auto qualifying mark and break the school record. Moore battled down the home stretch with a College of Idaho runner to finish second. The other Auto qualifying mark came at the feet of Sarah Hanchett in the women’s 800. Running in her first open 800 of the season, the freshman dropped almost four seconds off her high school PR of 2:18.2 to finish second in a strong field with a very fine time of 2:14.54. One of the remarkable facets of her race was she ran a very even race- running the first 400 in 67.2 seconds and the second one in 67.3 seconds. In other action, the women’s team won 5 events: Alma Garcilazo was a double winner (400- 58.16, 200- 26.22), Moore won the 100 Hurdles (15.82), Grace Deboodt won the High Jump (5’1”) and Talissa Baldovino teamed up with Hanchett, Garcilazo and Moore to win the 4 x 400 relay in 3:56.93. The later, was well under the NAIA Auto mark and ranks as the 3^rd fastest in school history behind the school record set at the 2009 Outdoor National meet and last weeks squad at home. In the field events, freshman McKinzie Anderson added to her outdoor season’s best in both the long jump (16’9 ¼”) and triple jump (34’7 ½”). Senior Marybeth Nash added a conference qualifier in the shot to go with her earlier conference qualifiers in the discus and hammer. All in all the women added 10 new conference qualifying marks to the list of EOU qualifiers- four in the 200 alone! In addition to Garcilazo’ winning performance, Grace Deboodt (26.86), Kelsey Kinzer (27.05) and Maddison Stapleton (27.10) all hit conference marks in the 200. Baldovino qualified for conference in the 400 (60.25), as did Kami Hernandez in the 800 (2:25.53) and Nancy Cardenas in her debut in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (12:16.70).

On the men’s side, EOU had three event champions in Chris Dilley in the Hammer (193’5”), Ryan Booth in the 400 (50.05) and Drew Wise in the 200 (23.06). Dilley also had one of three new conference qualifying marks for the Mountie Men (shot put- 44’ 6 ¾”) along with Brian Bragg (10:07.81) and Zach Seely (10:27.76) in the steeplechase. For Bragg it was his first Steeple of the year and for Seely his first ever. Other men’s highlights included Dustin Cloud (15.79) for second in the 110 Hurdles, Kody Coxen dropped 19 seconds off his previous best in the steeplechase (10:03.76), and Andy Munsey hit a season best in the shot put (45’ 3 ½”).

Next the Mounties will send a small sqauad to the Oregon Relays (Friday the 30^th and Saturday May 1^st) and the remaining athletes to the Pacific Twilight (Saturday the 1^st). The meets will be the final tune up before the conference championship, May 13, 14, & 15.

Mounties Produce Big Performances At EOU Open

La Grande Oregon, April 17— Competing in marvelous conditions (calm and temp in the 70’s), the 2010 EOU Mountaineer Open saw some fast times and strong performances. The throws squad put up some strong marks and competed well. Senior Mitch Wheelhouse won three events (Hammer at 168’4”, Discus at 137’ 3” and Shot with a season’s best 46’1.25”). Freshman Jake Wilcox had a strong day in the shot put, improving on his 16 pound ball PR by about a foot with a 44’ 7” toss. For the women, Ashlee Michelson had a strong day, as well putting up her best mark in a college uniform in the Discus with a toss of 127’ 6”.

Freshman Kelsey Irish put together a large Personal Record (PR) in the Javelin with her throw of 121’ 0” (an 11 foot PR). In other field event action, sophomore Maddison Stapleton jumped to a huge new PR (and an NAIA Provisional Qualifying mark) of 11’3”, up from her previous outdoor PR of 10’ 0”.

The Mounties also turned in several strong performances on the track. Senior Grace Deboodt and Junior Melisa Abesa both put up strong marks in the 400, with Deboodt just missing her PR (set a the Conf. Meet last year) with a time of 59.39. Abesa smashed her open 400 PR with a time of 60.09. Both came back with strong 200’s as well. Junior Andrew (“Drew”) Wise, had a busy day, running a strong 400 (50.47) for second and 22.89 to tie with teammate Ryan Booth for the win in the 200. Wise also ran the 100 (the very next event after the 400) to finish 3^rd in 11.54. Sophomore Jessianne Heley (68.89), Freshman Sierra Engler (68.94) and Freshman McKinzie Anderson (70.09) all ran strong in the 400 Hurdles. The two freshmen ran the longer college distance for the first time (High School Intermediate Hurdlers run 300 meters). Sophomore middle distance standout Ryan Booth had a very good day as well, crushing his previous PR of 50.80 in the 400 to turn in a strong 49.27. Interesting thing about the 200 was Booth and Wise were both in different heats and hit the exact same time. In the longer races, Freshman Kody Coxen ran two PR’s, in the 1500 (4:03.49) and 800 (2:00.60). Freshman Tyler June, coming off a lengthy illness late last term, ran to a new PR (2:02.63) in heat two of the 800 to win his heat. Terry Johnsen ran tough in the 5k for third and Justin Dean ran his first 5K of the year to qualify for conference. In the women’s distance race races there were some strong performances in the 1500. Freshman Nancy Cardenas won heat two with a very fine run of 5:03.10. Fellow Freshmen Talissa Baldovino (5:00.79) and Sarah Hanchett (4:51.85) both ran PR’s as well. The race however, belonged to 800 meter specialist Alma Garcilazo. The sophomore from Umatilla, in her second 1500 ever, pulled away late in the race to run 4:40.40 and win by 1.45 seconds. Her time is believed to be a track record and surpasses the NAIA Auto Qualifying mark by over three seconds. The meet ended with a stellar run by Engler, Hanchett, Baldovino and Garcilazo in the 4 x 400 relay. Engler put the team near the front on the opening leg (61.3 seconds) and Hanchett (59.6) put the Mounties in the lead for good, while third leg Baldovino opened the gap up with a very strong 59.0. As she did in the 1500, Garcilazo closed things in a big way running a monster leg at 55.8 seconds! Their time of 3:55.91 seconds is the second fastest in school history (behind the 2009 National meet squad’s mark of 3:55.51). More importantly, it surpasses the NAIA Auto time of 3:58.25 by a wide margin.

Moore Wins Spokane Falls Community College Multi

Spokane Washington, April 13 & 14—Competing with two teammates several Eastern Washington U and Spokane CC athletes, EOU sophomore Kimmy Moore used a strong second day to move past two EWU athletes for the win in the Women's heptathlon. Moore's final score will usually qualify for the 16 athlete field at the NAIA National meet. Virtually all of her individual marks also surpass the conference qualifying marks as well. Joining Moore in the heptathlon were Jessiane Heley and McKenzie Anderson, the later in her first heptathlon. Both easily qualified for the conference meet in the heptathlon with their 4th and 5th place finishes.
In the men's Decathlon, Asa Miller and Dustin Cloud began the competition for EOU. Miller used a big first day and final event (the 1500) to finish 4th overall. Cloud had to withdraw after re-aggravating a slight injury and fouling out in the LJ on day one. Miller final score was about 200 points better than his best last year.

Mounties Get Mixed Results At the WAOR Meet

Spokane Washington, April 10—Much like the weather in Spokane today, the EOU Track & Field teams had an up and down day at the WAOR meet, hosted by Spokane Falls Community College. The day alternated between pretty nice weather and chilly, windy weather; with many performances mirroring the weather. This was the 3rd and by far largest, "WAOR" meet and featured teams from 15 schools, including NCAA Div 1 schools, NAIA schools, and Community Colleges. The one day meet features a unique scoring format that pits schools from Washington against schools from Oregon- and this year saw Idaho and Montana schools as well. Schools from each state/region score together like one team (WA has won all three additions for both genders).
Action got under way at 9am and the first final result of the day for EOU was the B heat of the 5,000 meter run, which was won by EOU freshman Kody Coxen in commanding style over the second half in 15:25.66. Coxen won by about 11 seconds over a runner from NCAA Div 2 Central Washington. Other quality runs for the EOU men came in Ryan Booth and Andrew Perri stepping up from the 800 to the 1500 to finish 5th and 6th overall, both timed at 4:00 and change. Terry Johnsen ran well in the A heat of the 5k to shave 9 seconds off his PR and just edge Coxen by .15 of a second in the overall standings. Justin Dean ran solid in his first 3000 steeplechase in 2 years, and Drew Wise ran tough in his heat of the 400 despite heavy winds on the back stretch. Booth, Kevin Sthen, Perri and Wise ran a fine 4x400 to close the meet with an overall event victory in the 4x400 with a strong 3:20.77 mark. Perri moved into the lead on the 3rd leg and Wise held on for the win by a narrow margin (.11 of a second) over the host school. The field events were pretty well limited to the throws for EOU Men today, with the best event the first of the day in the hammer. Mitch Wheelhouse (8th) and Andy Munsey (7th) lead the EOU throwers today
For the women, Karlee Coffey hit the only NAIA qualifying mark for EOU. The LaGrande native placed 4th over all in 17:47.43 to easily surpass the NAIA standard of 18:05. It was her first track 5k and her 3rd auto mark of the year (10k and Marathon being her other two). Alma Garcilazo notched a 3rd place in the 800 and Talissa Baldovino finished 6th overall, but crushed the competition in the second heat. Times in the 800 (like the 400 before) were hampered by some strong winds. The women's 4x400 ran strong to finish 3rd. Melisa Abesa, Grace Deboodt, Baldovino and Garcilazo teamed up to rum 3:59.24 and hit an NAIA Provisional mark. In other running events Christy Roe shaved 37 seconds off her previous best in the steeplechase to run 13:30 and Monique McKenzie shaved a minute six off her best to qualify for conference in 13:56. Sarah Hanchett hit a conference qualifier in the 400 hurdles (68.08)in her first venture over the distance. Abesa qualified for conference in the 200 (27.09) as well. Maddison Stapleton vaulted well again (10'0") to lead the field events.
All in all it was a solid day with some good performances. Next up is the Spokane Multis on tues and wed this coming week and the EOU home meet on Saturday the 17th.

Mounties Compete Well In The Bay Area

San Francisco/Stanford California, March 26 & 27— The Mountaineer Track & Field Teams concluded spring break with a trip to California to compete in three meets over the weekend. Mountie athletes competed in meets hosted by Stanford, San Francisco State, and Chabot College.

Friday The majority of athletes competed at the San Francisco State Invitational; with a few athletes competing at the Stanford Invitational and Chabot College Invite. At San Francisco State, Karlee Coffee ran a NAIA Automatic qualifier in the 10,000m. Her time is the second best in school history, in her first attempt at the distance. In the 800m Talissa Baldavino raced well and ran a new personal best by five seconds, while Sarah Hanchett debuted in the Steeplechase with a NAIA a provisional qualifier. Maddison Stapleton had good races in the 100m and 200m, setting new personal bests in both events. On the men’s side Terry Johnsen achieved the NAIA provisional mark in the 10,000m, just missing the auto qualifier. Carlos Quintana had good races in the 1500m and 800m. He set a new personal best in the 1500m and was just off in the 800m. While Chris Wilson ran new personal best in the 400m. Kimmy Moore and Andrew Wise both competed at the Stanford Invitational. Moore just missed the NAIA provisional qualifier in the 400 hurdles, and Wise had solid run in the 400m. The lone athlete competing at Chabot College was Andy Munsey, who won the hammer throw with a new personal best.

Saturday The Mounies picked up where they left off. At Chabot College Maddison Stapleton came back from her two personal bests the day before to win the Pole Vault competition. She then teamed up with Kimmy Moore, Orie Gamez, and Melissa Abesa, as they turned in a strong performance in the 4 x 100m relay. Other strong performances came from Ashlee Michelson, who had good showings in the Shot Put and Discus events. On the men’s side, Chris Wilson came from behind to win the 400m hurdles. While the 4 x 400m relay team of Andrew Wise, Dustin Cloud, Asa Miller, and Kevin Sthen also had a good performance. At the Stanford Invitational the Mounties had a good day with three strong performances in the 800m. Alma Garcilazo hit the NAIA automatic qualifier and set a new school record of 2:13.59, while Andrew Perri and Ryan Booth both ran personal bests and hit the NAIA automatic qualifier. Perri is now has the second best time in school history, and Booth has the third. Andy Munsey and Chris Dilley also competed at the meet. Munsey finished 14th in the college Hammer Throw, while Dilley finished 5th in the Invitational Discus Throw and 6th in the Invitational Hammer Throw. His mark in the Hammer Throw was his best of the season.

Next Up the Mounties will be in Spokane on April 10th, for the WAOR Meet.

Mounties Get Four NAIA Automatic Qualifiers At Blue and Gold Meet

La Grande Oregon, March 19— The EOU Track & Field teams took advantage of great conditions at the EOU Blue and Gold Meet, and came away with four automatic and one provisional qualifier for the NAIA Championships. For the Mounties the highlight of the meet came from men throwers, as Chris Dilley, Mitch Wheelhouse, and Andy Munsey all exceeded the NAIA automatic qualifier in the Hammer Throw. Wheelhouse’s and Munsey’s marks were both personal bests. Dilley then came back to the get the automatic qualifier in the Discus as well. The Mounties also got several strong performances in the relay events. The women’s 4 x 100m team of Kimmy Moore, Melissa Abesa, Orie Gamez, and Maddison Stapleton recorded the 4th best time in school history. While on the men’s side, the 4 x 800m team of Ryan Booth, Andrew Perri, Carlos Quintana, and Brian Bragg recorded a provisional qualifying for the NAIA meet. Other strong performances include Kimmy Moore winning the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles, Orie Gamez winning the 100m, and Melissa Abesa debuting in the 400m hurdles with the 1oth best time in school history. On the men’s side Kody Koxen took control of the men’s 1500 after the first lap to run away for the win in a new personal best. Koxen has now won his first two collegiate track races.

Next up about thirty athletes will head to California to compete in the Stanford Invitational and the San Francisco State Invitational March 26th & 27th.

Mounties Open Outdoor Season With Quality Performances At Northwest Nazarene

Nampa Idaho, March 13— A smaller squad of athletes opened 2010 outdoor season for the EOU Track & Field teams. Despite chilly temperatures, and windy conditions, the Mounties turned in several quality performances throughout the meet. The women’s team notched 13 conference qualifying marks, while the men’s team had 11.

Asa Miller led the way three qualifiers, as he won the Pole Vault, 110M Hurdles, and High Jump competitions. The throws squad recorded 7 conference qualifiers. Andy Munsey, Jake Wilcox, and Tyler Bruck each got two qualifying marks, and Mary Beth Nash accounted for the final one. Munsey finished 2nd in the Discus and 3rd in the Hammer Throw. His mark in the Discus was a five foot personal best, a difficult feet in the windy conditions. In the Jumping events, the Mountie Women achieved eight qualifying marks, as McKinzie Anderson and Alexa Loscutoff hit the mark in the long and triple jumps; with Julie Butterfield getting the mark in the triple jump. The other three qualifiers came from Maddison Stapleton, Cayla Weissert, and Allison Huguet all hit the mark in the Pole Vault. Anderson and Weissert also got qualifiers in the 100m hurdles.

The remaining qualifiers came on the track. Kody Coxen and Terry Johnsen achieved the mark in the Steeplechase. Coxen won the race, which was his first Steeplechase and first ever collegiate track race. While he didn’t hit the qualifier, Andrew Perri won a tactical 800m in his first race back from a hamstring injury. For the women’s Christy Roe and Talissa Baldavino both squeaked under the qualifier. Roe hit the mark in the Steeplechase, while Baldavino’s mark came in the 800m.

Next up, the Mounties will hose the EOU Blue & Gold meet on March 19.