EMPORIA, Ks. – Seven program records fell while Griffon Track & Field snagged first place on the women's side and second in the men's division at the Midwest Classic.
FIELD EVENTS
Samantha Cerra finished second in the women's hammer toss with a throw of 48.75 meters.
Jordan Garr also took second in the men's hammer throw. The All-American barely missed first with a heave of 52.94 meters – just short of Kolgan Ohl's throw of 52.97 meters for Fort Hays State.
Dallas Thompson's throw of 45.42 meters gave him sixth place in the hammer throw.
Cerra made a splash in the women's shot put, landing third with her launch of 12.33 meters.
Saquana Washington's first throw of 12.15 meters was good for fifth while
Olivia Frisbee's distance of11.46 landed her in seventh. Garr's throw of 18.16 hearned him a new D2 provo mark while he took first place in the men's shot put.
Nate Daugherty-Parrish's liftoff of 15.19 meters landed him in fourth.
Daughtery-Parrish's men's discus throw of 46.34 meters put him in third place.
Graycen Prothero and
Samantha Cerra ended up in sixth and seventh place receptively in the women's discuss throw. Prothero's toss landed 37.62 meters away while Cerra's went for 37.37.
Camryn Huggans notched eighth place in the women's javelin with her throw of 37.53 meters. Jumping over to the pits, Maddison Roumph landed at 5.40 meters, giving her fifth in the women's long jump. Roumph also took fourth in the triple jump with a tally of 11.29 meters.
Erin Miller hit a mark of 1.56 meters in the women's high jump, granting her in eighth place.
RUNNING EVENTS
Andrew Wright finished second in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:14.29. Missouri Western's 4x100 team of
Aneesa Abdul-Hameed,
Hanna Williams,
Aniya Kollore and
Savannah Simmons snagged a first-place finish and a school record, coming in at 46.18 seconds. The men's 4x100 team of
Drake Stelljes,
Alex Thompson, Connor Thom and Michael Smith came in third with a log of 42.53, breaking another program record.
Allison Goos finished fourth in the women's 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:58.41. On the men's side of the event,
Riley Gorham just missed first by two seconds, clocking in at 3:54.50 to break his own school record. In the men's 110-meter hurdles, Thompson came in third after finishing in at program record of 15.36 seconds, which was just four tenths of a second off from second place's Braden Richardson of Ottawa.
Williams and Abdul-Hameed took first and second in the women's 400-meter dash, blazing through the lap with times of 55.17 and 56.75. Michael Smith also took first on the men's side of the 400, beating out St. Mary's Torrey White with a school record-breaking run of 48.10. Stelljes also took seventh in the event at 50.01.
Cutting over to the straightaways, Simmons shot across the track for first place in the women's 100-meter dash with a time of 11.97. Kollore's time of 12.27 was good enough for fourth.
Megan Gillen (fourth; 2:19.16),
Halley Wilmes (fifth; 2:19.53) and
Paige Kvale (seventh; 2:20.82) all finished in the top eight of the 800-meter run.
The men's 800-meter run saw
Derek Dixon's time of 1:57.33 earn him fourth place.
Logan Cutler's time 1:59.44 marked him seventh. In the women's 400-meter hurdles,
Lynzi Miller broke the program record, finishing in 1:05.33 seconds for sixth place.
Adam Abduul took fifth with a time of 57.97 in the men's 400-meter hurdles. In the women's 200-meter dash, Simmons just missed first by two tenths of a second, finishing second with a time 25.00.
Madison Nash scored a first-place finish for MWSU by beating everyone by over a whole minute in the women's 5,000 meter run thanks to her new school record of 17:24.13.
For the men's 5,000 meter,
Ethan Mesenbrink took fourth by finishing in 15:19.03 minutes.
Konner Larkin took sixth after clocking in at 15:47.92.
Both the men's and women's 4x400-meter relay teams tallied a first-place finish. The women's team of Abdul-Hameed, Kollore, Williams and Roumph finished in 3:51.14 minutes while the men's squad of Smith, Dixon, Gorham and
Davon Beckles scored a mark of 3:18.95 minutes.
TEAM SCORES
WOMEN
MEN
NEXT UP
Missouri Western next prepares itself for the MIAA Outdoor Championships. They'll be back in Emporia spanning from May 6-8.
