Huskies Roll To Sweep Over Cougars

Saturday, April 6

Seattle, WA

10:00 AM

University of Washington

UW vs. WSU Dual

April 06, 2019 | Track & Field

Complete Results Boeing Apple Cup Series

By: UW Athletic Communications

SEATTLE – Two complete team efforts resulted in two dominant wins for the Husky track and field squad in today's annual Dual Meet against Washington State on the purple of Husky Outdoor Track. Both the men and women scored over 100 points, the first time that has happened in the same Dual, and the Washington women posted their largest victory ever against the rival Cougars in the Boeing Apple Cup Series.

The Husky women's squad took a big lead early against WSU and never looked back, posting a 108-55 victory to win by 53 points, far surpassing the next biggest margin of victory, two 37 points wins in 2016 and 1995. The men's dual was more even early on but several late sweeps helped the Huskies run away with it late, 103-60.

The combined 96-point margin of victory was the second-largest ever for the Dawgs, just shy of the 98 point combined sweep in 2015.

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The wins also came on some nice round-number milestones in the series, as the men's meeting was officially the 100th Dual, while the women's was No. 40. Since moving to Husky Outdoor Track for the 2013 Dual, the Huskies are 4-0 at home on the men's and 3-1 on the women's side and have swept the past three Duals on the purple track.

Overall, the Huskies won 27 of the 38 events, including going 4-for-4 in the critical relays. The women's team won 10 of the 11 running events while the men won eight of 11. The Dawgs won six of the eight combined throwing events today as well.

With team points going to the top-three in each event, sweeping the top three is always huge, and the Huskies had eight sweeps today, coming in the women's 400-meters, women's 5,000-meters, women's 100-meter hurdles, women's 400-meter hurdles, women's javelin, men's 5,000-meters, men's shot put and men's discus.

Director of Track & Field Maurica Powell was fired up for the women's team. "I'm super pleased really with every event group across the board," she said. "I think the kids beat the form chart pretty much everywhere. I thought we had kids chipping in everywhere and the conditions made the day more about beating the person in front of you rather than looking at the clock, so we formulated race strategies that were purely about beating Washington State athletes and that was it."

It was the same story for Head Coach Andy Powell sizing up the performance of the men's team.

"Very happy to win the hundredth meeting," he said. "It was a really good team effort. Our coaches and the student-athletes did a great job. The throwers, sprinters, jumpers, distance runners, all had a lot of people step up. It was a collective run and there were very few hiccups. We told them to prepare for some ups and downs but we caught a good day and had a lot more ups. I really liked their attitude and they just had the right mindset going in and represented themselves with good sportsmanship, which makes you proud as a coach."

Women's Sprints
The women's hurdlers were perhaps the most dominant group of the meet today, sweeping both 100m and 400m hurdle races. In the 100-meter hurdles, heptathlete Hannah Rusnak rolled to a big PR and a win in 13.75 seconds which jumped her into the Husky top-10 list up to No. 6. Finishing the sweep were Darhian Mills in 14.00 and Morganne Hill in 14.09, both season-bests.

Mills would lead the way in the 400m hurdles with Hill and Carly Lester taking second and third and all three running sub-60 seconds. Mills won in 59.06, Hill clocked 59.13 and Lester a 59.45, with freshman Karlee Stueckle coming across fourth in 1:01.08.

Sarah Stavig had the victory that clinched the overall dual win as she took the 200-meters in 25.12 seconds with Assa Kaba runner-up in 25.38. Senior Imani Apostol came on late to win the 400-meters in 56.57, leading a Husky sweep that included Stavig in 56.99 seconds and Raquel Tjernagel in 58.74.

The women put together their first 4x100m relay of the season and the group of Aaliyah Wilson, Stavig, Apostol, and Olivia Ribera pulled away from the Cougars to win in 45.87 seconds. With the Dual wrapped up, the women's 4x400m relay of Lester, Hannah Derby, Mills and Apostol closed with another win in 3:50.03.

Men's Sprints
The men's 4x100m relay got things rolling with a win that beat the form chart right off the bat. Jordan Lucas led off to Kemuel Santana, Evan Mafilas, and Khalil Winfrey anchored in 40.79 seconds to beat WSU by just over two tenths.

Santana and Mafilas would pick up individual wins, with Santana going 21.69 to take the 200-meters and Mafilas winning the 400-meters with a late surge in 47.56. Santana and Winfrey were second and third, respectively, in the 100-meters in 10.49 and 10.50 with a big tailwind.

Freshman Cass Elliott won by nearly two seconds in the men's 400m hurdles, just his second time at the distance. He won in 52.19 while Oscar Herrera was third for a point in 54.29.

Elliott then anchored the 4x400m relay win in 3:16.09 with Jason Palmer, Connor Morello, and Devan Kirk the other legs.

Women's Distances
The women won every distance race on Saturday, including four wins from seniors in their final Dual. Emily Hamlin started things out by winning one of the most dramatic races of the day, as she held off a late charge from Washington State's Zorana Grujic to win the 3,000m steeplechase in 10:23.89 to Grujic's 10:26.26.

Next, senior Anna Maxwell got the victory in the 1,500-meters, crossing in 4:31.42 right alongside sophomore Allie Schadler who ran 4:31.92.

Lastly, senior Izzi Batt-Doyle led a sweep of the 5,000-meters. A group of five Huskies ran together for the early stages until Batt-Doyle, Katilyn Neal, and Katie Rainsberger moved out ahead. Batt-Doyle opened things up on her own to win in 16:30.57 with Neal second in 16:47.57 and Rainsberger third in 16:50.27.

Senior transfer Nicole Goecke also win in her first and only Dual, as she took the 800-meters in 2:11.36, just ahead of Hannah Derby in second in 2:12.20.

Men's Distances
Junior Julius Diehr set the tone win a win in the first track race of the day, as he took the steeplechase win in a small personal-best time of 8:59.36. Freshman Alex Slenning made his steeple debut and took third in 9:08.13.

The Dawgs swept the 5k late to punctuate the team win. Fred Huxham and Tibebu Proctor moved ahead of the pack and crossed together, Huxham winning in 14:25.15 and Proctor in 14:25.30, with Andrew Snyder third in 14:32.96 and Gavin Parpart fourth in 14:33.04.

In the mid-distances, Devan Kirk and Connor Morello ran tactically sound 800-meter races to pull away from the Cougars, Kirk winning in 1:50.75 and Morello going 1:51.81. Mick Stanovsek was the runner-up at 1,500-meters in 3:51.17 and Nate Beamer was third in 3:54.31.

Women's Jumps and Vault
Hannah Rusnak had another solid long jump today, leaping 19-2 3/4 to take second in that event. The Huskies went 2-3 in the pole vault, as they rested new Collegiate Record-Holder Olivia Gruver. Redshirt freshman Makenna Barton was second at 12-8 and Annika Dayton made the same height, taking third on the tiebreaker.

Men's Jumps and Vault
The pole vaults and high jumps were all moved indoors due to the on and off rain, so Chase Smith returned to the Dempsey and had a win in the men's vault with a make of 17-8 1/2. Zach Shugart and Blaise Black both made 16-6, with Shugart finishing second and Black fourth.

In the long jump, Sam Richmond had a PR and a victory, jumping 23-7 1/2 despite a headwind and picking up five points in his first Dual Meet.

Sophomore Jaylen Taylor was the focus of attention at the end of the meet as the men's triple jump was the last event going at the track and it was a close battle. Taylor pulled it out with a fifth-round jump of 48-2 1/2.

Women's Throws
The women took three of the four throws events, starting with the hammer where senior Onyie Chibuogwu took care of business with a winning toss of 191-8. Junior Angel Nkwonta was third at 177-2.

Emmy Engle led a big sweep in the javelin, getting a collegiate PR of 150-4 that jumped her up to seventh on the Husky top-10 lists. Katherine Taylor and Ginny Mehl then were second and third with matching 132-8 tosses.

Mehl had a big victory in the women's discus with a toss of 158-10 on her fourth attempt that was nine feet better than the runner-up from WSU. Mehl also scored in a third event as she was third in the shot put at 41-2 1/2. Nkwonta was second in the shot put at 46-1 1/4.

Men's Throws
Just as the women, the men won three of four throws events, and swept two of them.

Even in the one event the Cougars won, the hammer, Connor Jost had a big five-foot PR to take third at 182-3.

After that it was all Dawgs. Senior Denham Patricelli went 219-9 to take the javelin followed by Jacob Wachtendonk in second at 211-3.

Elijah Mason won the discus at 172-3 with Jose Padilla right behind at 171-9 and Jonah Wilson third at 168-3. In the shot put, it was Wilson leading the sweep, as he won at 61-2 1/4 with Padilla second again at 55-6 1/2 and Mason third with just one throw, going 50-7 1/2 on his first attempt.