Linfield, Plu Win At Ncic

College track and field

Linfield’s men and Pacific Lutheran’s women won team titles Saturday at the Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges Championships at Whitworth College.

Linfield scored 307.5 points to the 198.5 of runner-up PLU. The host Pirates were fourth in the seventeam field, with 80 points.

PLU, scoring 250 points, won its 15th consecutive women’s title. Linfield was second with 133. Fifthplace Whitworth scored 74.

Linfield’s Josh O’Connor and Willamette’s Allen Heinly were named men’s co-athletes of the meet. O’Connor won the 800 meters in a meet-record 1 minute, 52.54 seconds, then captured the 1,500 in 3:54.65. Heinly won the pole vault at 15 feet, 6 inches and the triple jump at 45-11 3/4.

Whitman’s Jessica Bissonnette was the outstanding women’s athlete after winning the 3,000 in 10:03.89, the 5,000 in 17:29.93 and taking second in the 1,500 in 4:43.44.

PLU’s Karen Andrade set meet records in the 100 hurdles at 14.46 and 400 hurdles at 1:02.33. PLU, running 47.21, also set a meet record in the women’s 400 relay.

Whitworth’s Jochannon Lowe won the men’s 100 in 10.84 and the 200 in 21.96.

The Pirates’ Trina Gumm finished second in the shot put (40-9 1/2) and javelin (142-10 1/2), and third in the discus (128-9 1/2).

Eastern Washington dominated at the Bigfoot Invitational at Spokane Falls Community College.

EWU’s women won nine of 16 events. The men won six events, one more than the host Sasquatch.

Double winners were rare. Isaiah Mahmood of Highline CC won the men’s 110- (15.28) and 400-meter hurdles (57.22). Chrisoula Filippakou of Bellevue CC won the women’s 100 (12.99) and 200 (26.5).

CCS swept the men’s relays.