Cougars Snap Husky Dual Meet Win Streak

Saturday, April 28

Pullman, WA

11:00 AM

University of Washington

WSU-UW Dual

April 28, 2018 | Track & Field

Complete Results

By: UW Athletic Communications

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State broke the Husky winning streak on both sides of the storied UW-WSU Dual Meet today on the Cougars' Mooberry Track, in spite of a solid effort form the Dawgs that saw numerous career-best efforts. The Cougars had an 88-75 victory on the women's side and an 89-74 men's win to get their first Dual Meet sweep since 2010.

Washington won 17 events overall including 12 of the 22 track events, but the Cougars won 11 of the 16 field events and had four events where they swept the top three scoring spots, compared to two sweeps for the Dawgs, in the women's shot put and men's 5,000-meters.

Multiple winners for UW today included Gina Flint, who went 8-for-8 in Dual Meet events for her career as she swept the shot put and discus on the women's side, and freshman Jonah Wilson who won both events on the men's side in his first Dual. Freshmen Evan Mafilas and Devan Kirk both had individual wins and teamed up for the 4x400m relay win, while senior Carolyn Birkenfeld also won the open 400m and ran on the winning 4x4.

"Credit to the Cougars for competing with a lot of spirit today and it does not feel great to have our winning streak come to an end but it wasn't for a lack of effort as I thought our kids battled," said Head Coach Greg Metcalf. "There were a number of races where points swung on literally a hundredth or thousandth of a second and they got a few more of those today than we did.

"We are missing a handful of pieces to our team who we would have liked to see out here today, but many of our athletes had the best day of their seasons today or in some cases of their careers and that's encouraging going into Pac-12s."

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Women's Events

In the short sprints, Olivia Ribera picked up a point in the 100-meters in 12.08 seconds, getting edged out by just .01 for second-place. Iman Brown turned in a dominant win in the 200-meters in 24.09 while Ribera was fourth in 24.90.

One of the best finishes was the win for senior Carolyn Birkenfeld in her final Dual, as she was nearly caught by WSU's Stephanie Cho but Birkenfeld wouldn't let that happen as she leaned and fell over the finish to win in 55.26 seconds ahead of Cho's 55.35. Sarah Stavig also returned to action and finished third in 56.92.

More wins came for the Dawgs in the mid-distances as Hannah Derby led wire-to-wire in the 800-meters to win in 2:07.97. Allie Schadler and Amy-Eloise Neale raced away from the closest Cougars and crossed the finish side by side in 4:24.75 and 2:24.76. Neale also doubled back for third in the 800-meters in 2:09.39.

In the 5k, Kaitlyn Neal placed second in 16:45.97 and Schadler doubled back from her 1,500-meter win to take third.

Emily Hamlin provided the first win for the women on the track as she rolled to a mostly-solo steeplechase PR, running 10:24.04 to win by nearly forty seconds and also move up to No. 6 on the Husky top-10 lists.

Alissa Brooks-Johnson showed her value to WSU with two wins in the hurdles running impressive times of 13.73 and 58.05, but the Dawgs ran well to take 2-3-4 in each event behind her. Morganne Hill was second in the 100m hurdles in a collegiate best of 14.07 seconds and she was fourth in the 400m hurdles in a big PR of more than a second, running 59.38. Darhian Mills was third in the 100m hurdles in 14.30. Second in the 400m hurdles was senior Hanna Tarleton in 58.53 and third went to Carly Lester in 59.23, just off her PR.

The Cougars got the first relay win on the women's side as they ran 45.28 compared to 45.82 for the UW foursome of Stavig, Brown, Apostol, and Ribera. The Dawgs finished the meet off with a 4x400m win in 3:40.07 from Tarleton, Birkenfeld, Lester and Apostol.

In the field events, Mayson Douglass cleared 5-3 ¼ for second in the high jump, and Annika Dayton and Tori Franzen went 2-3 in the pole vault. Dayton made 12-7 ½ on her first attempt and Franzen made it on her second but they missed at 13-0 ¾.

Jelani Heath was third in the long jump with a mark of 17-11 ¾ as the only Husky scorer in the horizontal jumps.

Leading the throws was Flint, who wrapped up her Dual Meet career without ever taking a loss, as she swept the shot put and discus titles for the fourth year in a row. Flint won the shot put with a season-best 49-10 ½, leading a 1-2-3 sweep for the Dawgs in the event, the only UW women's sweep. Angel Nkwonta was second at 46-4 ¼ and Hannah Rusnak took third at 40-10 ½, both season-bests. Flint then won the discus as well with a throw of 158-10.

Nkwonta and Katie Wardsworth were second and third, respectively, in the hammer, Nkwonta throwing 170-10 and Wardsworth 170-8.

In the javelin, Daisey Newman earned her first Dual point with a third-place throw of 144-2 with Emmy Engle taking fourth at 139-10 and Katherine Taylor fifth at 133-1.

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Men's Events

Washington State had the edge in the short sprints, with Khalil Winfrey taking third in the 100-meters in 10.78 seconds, just .01 out of second, while Kemuel Santana had a wind-legal season-best of 21.58 for second in the 200m.

Freshman Evan Mafilas enjoyed a stellar first Dual as he won the 400-meters in a big PR of 47.22 seconds and would later anchor the 4x4 to the win. Ryan Croson also had an outdoor season-best of 47.58 for second-place, and Jason Palmer ran 48.53 for fourth.

Freshman Devan Kirk, coming off a big career-best sub-1:49 last week, led the whole way in the 800-meters and won in 1:50.98. Connor Morello was close behind but got edged for second by a few thousandths of a second as he finished in 1:51.30. Colby Gilbert suffered his first Dual loss as he led most of the way in the 1,500-meters but got caught around the final turn and settled for second in 3:53.25.

The one sweep for the Dawgs on the men's side came in the 5,000-meters, where Andy Snyder, Gavin Parpart, and Fred Huxham tracked down early leader Michael Williams and pulled away over the final lap. Snyder won in 14:24.35 with Parpart second in 14:26.52 and Huxham third in 14:32.41.

Andrew Gardner posted a 'W' in the steeplechase, coming through in 9:07.53 with Julius Diehr third in 9:10.71.

The Cougars swept the 110m hurdles with Eric Simpson fourth in 14.67 seconds. Oscar Herrera ran a new PR in the 400m hurdles of 54.27 seconds to take second.

The Dawgs swept the relay titles, including a big season-best in the 4x100-meters in one of the tightest races of the day. Jordan Lucas, Santana, Croson, and Winfrey ran 40.16 seconds to knock off WSU which finished in 40.26. A few hours later, the 4x4 group of Palmer, Kirk, Morello, and Mafilas closed the final gap with a win in 3:15.78.

Blaise Black took second in the pole vault, clearing the same 16-5 ¼ height as the winner but taking second on prior misses. Zach Shugart took third-place at 16-1 ¼ while Jacob Bowler made the same height but tied for fourth based on makes and misses.

Freshman Jaylen Taylor scored four points in his first Dual, taking third in the long jump at 21-10 ¾ and second in the triple jump at 47-5.

While Gina Flint swept the shot and discus in her final Dual on the women's side, freshman Jonah Wilson did the same in his first Dual for the men. Wilson won the discus with a toss of 174-8, just a foot off his season-best, and then came back to easily win the shot put at 54-2.

Connor Jost had a PR of nearly 10 feet in the hammer throw, going 177-1, taking fourth-place in his main event, but he managed to pick up a point in the shot put with a mark of 48-4 ¾ for third.

One of the best events of the day for the Dawgs was one of the earliest, and the last on the results page. Denham Patricelli had three javelin throws of 220-feet or better, the best coming on his fifth attempt and traveling 222-8, a new lifetime-best and good for the victory. One of the biggest breakout performances of the day was redshirt freshman Jacob Wachtendonk, who PR'd by 11 feet with a toss of 207-1 to finish third. Redshirt freshman Dalton Sugg also threw a new PR of 206-7 in fourth.