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Huskies Set Points Mark In Dual Sweep Of Cougars
May 03, 2015 | Track & Field
Complete Results
Programming Note: Pac-12 Networks Washington will replay the meet at 12 a.m. Sunday morning, as well as 6 a.m. Sunday morning and at 1 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Monday. The national Pac-12 Network will replay the meet at 11 a.m. on Monday.
SEATTLE – In the ninety-six years that the Huskies and Cougars have been dueling on the track, no Washington team ever scored as many points as the Husky squad that made the most of a picturesque day at Husky Outdoor Track, running away with a 113-50 win over its cross-state rivals. No less satisfying was a 99-64 win for the women of Washington, as the Dawgs completed their first Dual Meet sweep since 1997, and just their third sweep since the women joined the mix in 1979.
The combined 212 points for the men and women are the most in school history, making a case for today being the most impressive overall showing for the Huskies in the long history of the Dual. Washington's only previous title sweeps came in 1996 and 1997. The teams had split the past four years, with the Husky men winning for the third-straight year now, and the women getting their first victory over the Cougars since 2012.
“It was just a great day for both our teams,” said Head Coach Greg Metcalf. “I'm sitting here trying to think where didn't we perform well? And there were not a lot of those. Yesterday in the javelin Lyndsay Leatherman hurting her knee was a very unfortunate way to start. But today, we got DQ'd in the 4x1 and that was maybe our only mishap. Our sprinters did a great job, our jumpers swept the horizontal events, our pole vaulters broke both meet records, Frank Catelli and Gina Flint both won two events for us. So top to bottom that's as balanced a team top to bottom in this meet that we've ever had.”
The Huskies won 13 of the 19 events on the women's side and 12 of the 19 events on the men's side. Among the many highlights for the Dawgs were seven new top-10 marks, and UW-WSU Dual Meet records from pole vaulters Kristina Owsinski and Jax Thoirs.
The Huskies had three double-event winners today, with Izaic Yorks gutting out wins in both the 800m and 1,500m, and Gina Flint and Frank Catelli both winning the discus and shot put for the. Kennadi Bouyer took first in the long jump, second in the 100m, and was part of the winning 4x100m relay, while Haley Jacobson and Quadelle Satterwhite each won the 100m dash, and were second in the 200-meters.
Here's how the Pac-12 broadcast began, with the Dawgs rolling to a sweet win in the women's 4x100 relay! http://t.co/524mumPnpq
— UW Track (@UWTrack) May 3, 2015
“Sport is about momentum, and our group today I think came together and the hope is you take the momentum from today and it rolls right into the Pac-12 Championships. They can recover from this, because this is emotional and it's a massive competitive effort, but they should walk away excited about where this team is headed.”
The first winner of the day for the Dawgs was junior Bev Coleman in the hammer throw. Coleman would have a career-best throw of 169-8 on her second attempt, taking the lead, but she would then crush that PR with another heave of 174-4 on her last attempt of the morning. That moved Coleman from sixth up to No. 3 on the Husky top-10 list. Fellow junior Alyx Toeaina then moved up the top-10 list as well, as she also had not one, but two PRs today, the best going 161-11 to put her seventh all-time. Carolyn Gravelle completed the Husky sweep with a toss of 154-2.
In the men's hammer, sophomore Jack Scheideman competed for the first time outdoors this year, throwing 170-9 to finish second while Carey Campbell was third at 163-8.
In the women's pole vault, the Huskies were missing defending Pac-12 Champion Diamara Planell Cruz, but still had current Pac-12 leader Kristina Owsinski going against WSU's 2013 Pac-12 Champion Kristine Felix in one of the best events of the day. Owsinski had to sweat a bit as she needed a third attempt at 13-3 ¾ but she took the lead with a first attempt make of 13-5 ¾. Both vaulters made 13-7 ¾ on their first attempts, but Owsinski then delivered another first try clearance of 13-9 ¾. Felix missed once then passed to the next bar, and missed two tries at 13-11 ¾. Owsinski did not clear that height either, but her 13-9 ¾ make broke the meet record of 13-7 ¼ set back in 2005 by WSU's Tamara Diles. Sophomore Elizabeth Quick took third going 13-3 ¾.
The men's pole vault would be the last event to finish, but had a similar result, as junior Jax Thoirs established a new meet record, clearing 18-1 ¾ on his first attempt to break the 2002 record of 18-1 set by U.S. Olympian Brad Walker. Thoirs tried 18-6 ½ but missed that bar today. Redshirt freshman Lev Marcus took second with an outdoor season-best of 16-9 ½, and J.J. Juilfs and Chris Williams tied for third at 15-9 ¾.
The Huskies began to separate themselves from the Cougars early on, with wins across the board in the women's long jump, men's long jump, women's discus, and men's shot put, all of which began at 12:30 p.m.
Kennadi Bouyer and Alanna Coker each had 18-1 long jump marks, with Bouyer getting first-place by virtue of a better next-best jump. On the men's side, the Husky multi-eventers Carson Murray and Nick Pfeiffer took first and second, with Murray winning at 22-4 ½ and Pfeiffer going 22-1 ¾.
Flint and Catelli would collect their first wins in their first Dual against WSU, Flint taking the women's shot put at 46-9 ½ and Catelli winning the men's discus with a career-best throw of 179-1 that moves him well into the NCAA West Prelims mix in that event. Dan Boyden also threw a PR of 166-8 for second, and freshman Jack Lembcke went 160-11 for third in the discus. Toeaina and Coleman helped complete a Husky sweep in the women's shot put as well, as Toeaina threw 41-8 ¾ and Coleman tossed one inch shorter, 41-7 ¾.
Later in the day, Flint would pick up another win, and throw a PR in the process, as she spun the discus 167-feet, 6-inches to improve her No. 8 mark on the school record-list. Freshman Onyie Chibuogwu took second at 140-8, a season-best by six feet.
Catelli stepped up again to win the shot put, throwing 58-5 ¾ on his second attempt. Lembcke stretched his PR out to 55-3 ¾ to take second. Brian Hutchison also got into the mix outdoors for the first time after battling an injury, and he had a solid 52-10 to finish fourth.
The first race on the track was the women's 3,000-meters, and late in the race sophomore Katie Knight and Kaylee Flanagan broke away from WSU's CharLee Linton to give the Huskies the 8-1 point boost. Knight won in 9:37.23, with Flanagan going 9:39.47.
The steeplechases came next, and the men's steeplechase quickly turned into a race against the clock and against each other for the Dawgs. Junior Meron Simon got his second steeple win in the past month, as he cut seven seconds off his PR to take it in 8:50.13, which moves Simon up to No. 10 in the West Region. Junior Aaron Nelson ran for the first time since the NCAA Indoor meet, and he took second in an expected Prelim qualifier of 8:56.16. Redshirt frosh Andrew Gardner completed the sweep, and was the third Husky under nine minutes, as he went 8:59.77, a PR of more than 12 seconds.
The women's steeple featured All-American Eleanor Fulton returning to the event for the first time since her freshman year in 2012, coincidentally also at the Dual. Fulton won that race in 2012, and easily won again today, running 10:30.56, improving her spot at No. 4 on the top-10. Senior Liberty Miller, just returning to running after some injury issues, got third in her final Dual meet for one more point.
When the Pac-12 Networks live window began at 1:30 p.m., the Huskies quickly extended the lead on the women's side with their second-fastest 4x100-meter relay in school history. Jacobson, Bouyer, Gianna Woodruff, and Sierra Peterson won a tight battle against the Cougars, Peterson bringing the stick across in 45.07 seconds, with WSU second in 45.28.
All-Americans Maddie Meyers and Izaic Yorks delivered in the 1,500-meters in different but equally impressive manners. Meyers had a tough match-up with WSU's top mid-distance runner, Abby Regan, and the two separated and were neck and neck on the last lap. Regan took a momentary lead with 100-meters to go, but Meyers dug down and passed on the outside, winning in a time of 4:23.94 to Regan's 4:24.13. Freshman Anna Maxwell was third in 4:29.85.
Yorks opened up a lead of thirty meters on the final lap, and coasted to a win in 3:49.99, saving energy for a big 800-meters to come. Johnathan Stevens got second-place, outleaning WSU's Richard Shroy by two-hundredths of a second in 3:50.54.
After the 1,500's were finished, it was the sprinters' time to shine. The high hurdles came first, and Naivasha Sophusson Smith had the fastest race of her career, and a season-best by nearly half a second, as she was second in 13.91 just slightly wind-aided seconds. Kimberly Stueckle had the lead but a late hurdle caught her and she was third in 13.95.
In the men's hurdles, Washington swept for the second straight time on their home track. Chris Williams led the way in 14.28 seconds, followed by senior Howard Lao in 14.43 seconds, and freshman Eric Simpson in 14.70.
Sophomore Andrew Brown dominated the 400-meters by more than a second, winning in 47.60, and Michael Thomas picked up third-place points in 49.32. Alexis Ford scored a point in third for the women with a season-best 56.66 time in the quarter-mile.
Washington really broke open both meets in the 100-meter dashes. An expected tough battle on the women's side was over in a flash, as Jacobson, Bouyer, and Peterson went 1-2-3, boosted to outstanding times by a strong 4.9 tailwind. Jacobson went 11.47, which would have matched the UW school record had the wind been allowable. Bouyer was right alongside in 11.53 and Peterson ran 11.54 seconds to finish ahead of two Cougars.
Satterwhite led a sweep in the men's 100m as well, as he blasted past the stands in 10.59 seconds, a new wind-legal personal-best. Lucas Strong was second and Jacopo Spano was third, both running big PRs of 10.63 seconds.
The women would clinch the win early, as junior Baylee Mires wrapped it up with an outdoor season-best of 2:05.90 to win the 800-meter title and put UW over the 82-point threshold. Maddie Meyers doubled back to take third in 2:07.56, a five-second PR in the 800-meters.
One of the performances of the day had to be Yorks coming back in the 800-meters after winning the 1,500m just 45 minutes earlier. Yorks was facing a fresh Jesse Jorgensen of WSU who came in ranked third in the West with a season-best of 1:47.06. With 200-meters to go, Jorgensen passed his teammate Matthew Swanson for the lead but Yorks stayed right on his shoulder, and moved even and then ahead of Jorgensen down the home stretch, and looking smooth all the way to the win in 1:48.52 with Jorgensen second in 1:48.70.
Watch Izaic Yorks complete his fantastic Dual double! Tom Feuer says "My ... that was an impressive run!" http://t.co/rpToQC5tjm
— UW Track (@UWTrack) May 3, 2015
Last year Gianna Woodruff ran a PR and set the Dual record in the 400m hurdles in Pullman. Coming in as a big favorite, the race did not go as smoothly as last year, and Woodruff was just a step behind WSU's Liz Harper going over the final hurdle. But Woodruff dug down into some senior resolve to overtake Harper over the last few strides and win in 59.22 seconds, just .05 ahead of Harper. On the men's side, Kaid Tipton earned second-place hurdles points with a time of 56.15.
Several sprinters were back for their third appearances of the day in the 200-meters, despite UW having clinched the team titles by this point. The women's 200-meters proved to be the fastest in the 36 years of the Dual, as WSU's Briauna Watley broke a 28-year-old meet record with a time of 23.35 seconds, with the 1.9 tail wind just under the limit for records.
Haley Jacobson ran the second-fastest 200-meters in the history of the Dual, and had to settle for second-place today, as her time of 23.70 was also under the old record of 23.81. It was also the second-fastest 200-meters in Washington history, trailing only the 23.40 mark run by Donna Dennis back in 1983. Sierra Peterson had a big PR of 24.18 seconds, moving her to No. 8 all-time at UW, and she had to settle for fourth in the fast field. Freshman Cydnicia Wade also had a major PR of 24.66 seconds to take sixth.
The men's 200-meters was quick as well, with WSU's Terrance Chambers getting a victory in 21.03 seconds, but Satterwhite netted second-place with a new PR of 21.14 seconds, and Spano took third in a season-best 21.33, and Strong was fourth in a PR of 21.82.
The final winner on the track for the Huskies was All-American Colby Gilbert, racing for the first time since the NCAA Indoor Championships back in March. Gilbert, who set the UW school record for the 3,000-meters indoors, looked fit and confident as he worked his way to a big win in 8:11.73, with cross country All-American Tyler King crossing in second-place in 8:20.09.
The women's triple jump had one of the deepest fields of the meet, with four women coming in with 40-foot jumps this year. But at the end of the day, a fifth athlete had picked up a 40-footer, and it was Husky senior Jaleecia Roland, who got the upset win with the first 40-foot mark of her career. Roland went 40-feet, 9-inches on her fifth attempt, wind-aided, and she also had the second-best jump of the meet on her sixth attempt, going 40-1 ½.
In the men's triple jump, Casey Burns captured the win in his first ever Dual Meet, as he got a best mark of 48-11 on his fourth-round jump to win by over two feet.
WSU got wins in both high jumps, but the Huskies had several PRs in both. Roland had a great day in the high jump to go along with her triple jump win, as she cleared 5-7 ¼, a PR indoors or out. Elizabeth Quick also got over that bar, a three-inch outdoor PR for her, with Quick and Roland tying for fifth. On the men's side, Cole Jensen and Chase Walker each cleared 6-feet-9, career-bests for both, as Jensen got second and Walker third based on attempts. Carson Murray also made 6-7.
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