Chambreau Hammers Big Sky Field

Noah Chambreau of Eastern Washington was named outstanding field athlete at the four-day Big Sky Conference outdoor championships that concluded Saturday, winning the hammer throw and taking second in the discus.

The Idaho men and Boise State women claimed team championships.

Chambreau’s winning hammer toss of 195 feet, 8 inches was an NCAA provisional qualifying mark. He threw the discus 167-11.

The EWU men finished sixth with 65 points, their highest finish and highest point total since joining the conference eight years ago.

EWU’s Jeramie Willingham won the triple jump (51-5 1/2), ending a string of three straight lead changes in the final jump. And Murray Landauer, from Colfax, was second in the high jump at 6-9 3/4.

EWU women Nakia Walker, Christian White, Chundranae Nicholson and Joyce Rainwater won the 400 relay with a season-best 46.05, while Taneka Sauls was fourth in the triple jump with an EWU-record 37-3 1/4.

Idaho’s Frank Bruder and Boise State’s Misha Looney were voted the outstanding athletes of the meet by coaches. Bruder won the 5,000 meters Saturday with a time of 14 minutes, 44.33 seconds after winning the 3,000 steeplechase in 5:59.72.

His 5,000-meter victory, in which he held off third-place finisher Matt Harmer of Weber State, helped the Vandals beat the Wildcats 148-136 for the men’s title.

“Frank really broke their backs,” Idaho coach Mike Keller said. “I kept yelling at him while he was running that this was his race, and that he could win.”

Bruder listened. “I was really tired after the steeplechase,” he said, “but I just tried to keep up with the guy from Weber. With two laps to go, I knew I had to make my move. I knew that I didn’t have much kick left, so I had to get some space between us. I made a gap with 600 to go and that was when I knew he wasn’t going to catch me.”

Tim Martin of Northern Arizona finished second in 14:45.53.

Montrell Williams, a defensive back and kick returner on the Idaho football team, said he shocked himself by winning the 100 and 200 meters in just his third meet of the season. Williams finished in 10.52 and 20.83 seconds, respectively, and ran the opening leg on Idaho’s winning 400 relay team.

“I have never ran that fast in my life,” said Williams, whose 200 time met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard.

Boise State’s Looney won the women’s 100 meters in 11.86, the 200 in 24.18, ran the second leg of the Broncos’ third-place 400 relay team and Friday won the long jump at 19-9.

Idaho’s women finished sixth, scoring 65 points. Jill Wimer and Jessica Puckett led the way with provisional qualifying marks. Wimer won the discus (151-0) by 7 feet, and Puckett took the javelin for the second time in three years with a personal-best 158-7.

The BSU women won with 124 points. EWU was seventh with 27 - two more than Montana.

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