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DAC Women’s Outdoor Championships
DAC Outdoor Championships - Complete Results
NAIA Performance Lists - MEN and WOMEN
NAIA Indoor/Outdoor - Qualifying Standards The Dickinson State men claimed their fifth straight DAC outdoor track and field title on Sunday, and their sixth in the eight years of guidance of Head Coach Pete Stanton. DSU tallied 286.5 team points followed by Black Hills State with 162. They were followed by Jamestown College (120.5), Minot State (96), Dakota State (86) and South Dakota Mines (43).
The Blue Hawk women had an excellent meet, though their 201 points was not enough to topple BHSU, who scored 279 points. Jamestown (129), Dakota State (94), Minot State (65) and South Dakota Mines (14) rounded out the scoring in the women’s team standings.
Conference champions for DSU in the running events were Michael Sands (100M, 10.65), Ramon Miller (200, 21.19; 400M, 46.33), Allan Ayala (400M IH, 54.43), the 4 x 400M (3:19.11) and 4 x 800M (8:09.79) relay teams; and in the field, Dominic Goodman (triple jump, 48’ ½”) and Sheldon King (6’ 4”) won their events. A week earlier, Sean Pickstock sewed-up the decathlon championship (5879 points) at Dickinson in a two-day event.
For the women, individual champions were Kyla Wasser (100M, 12.06) and Rachel Clark (400M, 59.10) in the running events. Both Kelsey Aide (pole vault, 10’ 8”) and Valdeana Bain (triple jump, 36’ 4 ¾”) won one field event, and the 4 x 100M (48.43) relay team also took home top honors. Blue Hawks Men and Women Take 2nd Place in Al Cassell Relays in Final Tune-up Before DAC Meet
Al Cassell Relays - Complete Results
DAC Final Entries - MEN and WOMEN
In a meet in which several Blue Hawks did more watching than competing, Michael Sands took advantage of a solid tailwind to win the men’s 100M dash and also satisfy the NAIA’s qualifying standard for this event. His victory helped the men to a team score of 126 points, placing 2nd out of eight teams. Likewise, the women, with 139 total points, took 2nd in a field of six teams.
A good day in the throws was turned in by both Christa Hofland and Jessica Eaddy for the women and Jeremy Herr in the men’s javelin. Hofland's 129’ 11” won the discus. She is still “on the bubble” in the hammer, though her best toss of 149’ 1” earned her 2nd place and Eaddy’s rapid improvement (147’ 8”) will give her a chance to make the national team as well. Hofland has already satisfied the shot put and discus bench marks. Herr’s longest spear toss of 186’ 8” was encouraging, especially considering the conditions and also because he had multiple throws beyond 183 feet.
Other event winners were found in the jumps, where Kelly Ferguson won the long jump (16’ 4 ½”), Chadee Moss won the triple jump (36’ 9 ¾”) and in the vertical competition, Crystal Eneas took the high jump (4’ 11 ¾”). In the men’s 400M run, DAC decathlon champion Sean Pickstock hit the line first in 50.52, but teammate Allan Ayala should be given some credit as he was just a stride back and completed the single-lapper in a time of 50.72 seconds.
Earlier in the week, on Sunday and Monday, Dickinson State hosted the DAC Multi-Championships. The men picked up 13 team points in the decathlon behind Pickstock (5,879 points) and a 6th place turned in by Brian Tucker (5214). The women scored well too, with Leah Sperry's 2nd place heptathlon score (3850) and Mattie Murphy's 5th place (3386) earning 12 Blue Hawk team points.
The teams get a short rest this week and will be traveling on Saturday in preparation for the DAC Outdoor Championships hosted by Jamestown College on Sunday, May 4. The first competitions are the men’s long jump and the combined men/women’s 10K. Both events are to scheduled to start at 11:00 am Central time.
Blue Hawks Compete at Kansas Relays and Minot State
Kansas Relays Results - MEN - WOMEN
Minot State Outdoor Open - Complete Results
Ten athletes bravely made the trek to Lawrence, Kan., this week to compete in the prestigious 81st annual Kansas Relays. The men’s team was represented by Allan Ayala (400M IH), Antillio Bastian (Triple jump), Jermaine Christie (110M HH), Dominic Goodman (Triple and long jumps), John Ingraham (400M), Sergio Jimenez (1500M) and Ramon Miller (400M), while the women competitor were Kelsey Aide (Pole vault), Christ Hofland (Hammer throw and shot put) and Chadee Moss (Triple jump).
The conditions were challenging to say the least, but Saturday’s weather brightened considerably and both Miller (2nd place) Ayala (4th) brought home medals.
Hofland started the competition for the Blue Hawks on Thursday afternoon with a very respectable 150’ 7” best toss in the hammer. She finished just out of the upper half of entrants, finishing in 14th position out of 25 throwers. The drizzly rain persisted the rest of the day and into the evening before Jimenez took to the track for his heat, the 4th of five total in the 1500M. It was a tough race, but Jimenez led for much of the distance before finally being overtaken late. He timed 3:59.19 and claimed 9th overall out of 56 finishers.
On Friday, Ayala, Ingraham and Miller were faced with less than ideal conditions but still needed to turn in qualifying marks if they expected to compete on Saturday. All three Hawks ran well. In the 400, Ingraham’s 50.18 stand as his fastest open time of the year though he has split in the 47’s several times on the relay team. His mark was not good enough to make the next round however. Miller posted a solid 49.03 in his preliminary action and then, after 24 hours of recovery, ran his best 400 of the season in the final round and took 2nd out of 28 total competitors. Ayala won his heat in the prelims of the intermediate hurdle races (53.00) and followed that with his best time of the year (51.91) the following day and earned 4th place out of 30 athletes.
In the field events, Hofland was again in action in the throws, this time hefting the shot put. She made two nice tosses but fouled in the ring; her final put was legal and measured out to 40’ ¾”.
The sand jumpers took their turns too. Moss had a best jump of 35’ 2” in the triple, while both Goodman (48’ 9 ½”) and Bastian (44’ 5 ¼”) made their efforts on the men’s side. Goodman’s best leap was less than his normal standard, but was good enough to take 9th place out of 30.
Along with the aforementioned medal winners, both Christie and Aide took action for the first and only event on their ledgers on Saturday. They competed in the morning and the weather wasn’t yet entirely favorable, but Christie sped down the straightaway in 14.99 seconds over the sticks, and earned third in his heat. Aide cleared her opening height of 11’ 5 ¾” (3.50 m). She had two misses at both of her next heights before clearing them and finished with a 12’ 3 ½” (3.85 m) top mark.
While a handful of Blue Hawks made their way south to Kansas, the majority of the Dickinson State track and field team traveled to Minot, N.D., Saturday, to compete in the Minot State Open.
Michael Sands was a double winner in the 100M (10.89) and 200M (21.92) dashes, and Kyla Wasser was the top Blue Hawk sprinter for the women. She won the 100M (12.33), and hit the provisional mark again--a standard she had already met at the Dave Little Invite at the beginning of the month. Wasser also had a good race in the half-lapper but her 26.09 could only claim second place. Look for both her and Sands to compete at the national meet, however as they are running well and have at least two more chances to make the grade.
Other running event winners were Bryant Harvey in the 3000M steeplechase in 10:08.02 and Ryley McPeters in the 800M in a tactical 2:00.75. His sibling, Rayel McPeters won two races, bringing home top honors in the 1500M (5:12.3) and 5000M (21:00.9) runs. That’s a total of four wins on the day for these three former teammates at Upton HS (Wyo.).
In the field, Crystal Eneas and Sheldon King cornered the market in the high jump. Eneas cleared 5’ 3” to win the event and King did the same, taking the men’s version of the vertical leaping at 6’ 6”. Johnny Emtman rounded out the Hawks’ list of event winners with a best long jump of 19’ 7 ½”.
The DAC multi-championships are scheduled for this Sunday and Monday at Dickinson. The team then travels to Jamestown on consecutive weekends for the Al Cassell Invitational, April 26 and then the rest of the DAC convenes for the 2008 outdoor championships on May 2. |
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