by Kelsey Segren, Sports Information Assistant
SPOKANE, Wash. – Many Pirates set career-highs on Thursday and Friday as the Whitworth track and field team hosted a two-day meet at the Boppell Track that included a decathlon and heptathlon.
Seven Pirates were among the 16 athletes who competed in the men's decathlon. Nick McGill won the combined event with 6,720 points, Travis Herrera placed second (5,707), Joe Tingstad finished fourth (5,672) and Tyler Rohrman took seventh (5,367).
McGill set career-bests in the 110-meter hurdles (15.64) and the long jump (22' 2.5"), which were his highest-scoring events. Herrera set personal bests in five events, including the long jump (21' 3.25"). Tingstad recorded personal bests in four events, which included all three throwing events.
Madison Peffers represented the Pirates in the women's heptathlon, placing fifth of seven athletes in her first outdoor multi with a score of 3,311. Her highest scoring event was the high jump, where she cleared a career-high 5' 2.25" for second place. She also set personal bests in the shot put (27' 6.5") and javelin (67' 10").
Kolby Blackler improved on his 110-meter hurdle time, finishing in 15.27 for fifth place. That time ranks him seventh in all of Division III.
Ibrahim Diop and Christian Carsh posted NWC-qualifying times in the 800-meter run. Diop finished in 2:01.45, while Carsh crossed in 2:01.53. William Glick was the top-Pirate finisher in the 1500-meter run (4:03.54).
Riley Flanagan placed fourth in the long jump (20' 11.25") and Logan Wright finished fifth (20' 10.5"), both improvements from last weekend's marks.
Stephen Haugland placed fourth in the hammer throw with a career-best 171' 9", which also ranks fourth on the national list. Ignacio Garcia also finished with a personal-best in the hammer throw (149' 7"). Benjamin Brinkley placed second of five competitors in the javelin (167' 7").
Luke Davis, who recorded personal-best marks in all three of his throwing events last week, improved these marks again and now ranks seventh nationally in the shot put and discus. He placed fifth in the shot put (48' 6.25"), seventh in the hammer throw (149' 7") and fifth in the discus (145' 4"). Reed Hurst also improved in the shot put, placing eighth (45' 10").
Amelia Hewson finished third in the 100-meter hurdles with a career-best time of 15.30. That places her in a tie for fourth in the national rankings. Marisol Delcid ran the 400-meter hurdles in a NWC-qualifying time of 1:12.59.
Hewson also took third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.67. Jordyn Lungo placed seventh (12.81) in the 100m, while Alison Ball placed eighth (12.82). Ball added a fourth-place finish in the 200-meter dash, finishing in a time of 26.19.
Delcid, Ball, Lungo and Hewson teamed up for a 50.04 finish in the 4x100-meter relay, which currently ranks eighth nationally.
Monica Kaylor cleared 5' 0.25" in the high jump for eighth place.
Jamie Copeland threw 130' 6" in the discus to set a personal best and place fourth. Keara Simpson was close behind, throwing 130' 4" in her first meet for fifth place. Both are top-10 national marks.
Coming Up: Whitworth has another home meet next week as the Pirates host the H.I.R Invitational on April 2.
