Two Eastern Records Fall In Prelims

College track and field

Eastern Washington’s Seville Broussard and Hannah Lohrmann set school records Friday in the preliminaries of their respective events at the Big Sky Conference Track and Field Championships in Northridge, Calif., but neither the Eagles men nor women were able to do much damage in the team standings.

Broussard finished her heat of the 100-meter hurdles prelims in 13.76 seconds to smash her own school record of 13.92. Lohrman ran her preliminary heat in the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 13.21 seconds to set her mark.

The Eagles’ Johnnie Williams was clocked at 10.53 in the 100-meter prelims, just one one-hundredth of a second off the school record of 10.52 set by Robert Jefferson in 1989.

In finals held Friday, Eastern’s men picked up a win in the javelin from Ryan Cole, who threw 228 feet, 4 inches, but managed only 35 points and finished the day in fourth place in the team standings with 35 points.

Weber State leads with 61 points, followed by Northern Arizona with 47 and Montana with 38.

Former Davenport High School standout Tim Briggs, who runs for Montana State, won the 10,000 meters with a time of 30:14.77.

Eastern’s women, with Broussard finishing second to Weber’s Brooke Cottle in the high jump with a leap of 5-8, scored 27 first-day points and are tied for fourth with Weber.

Host Cal State Northridge leads the women’s standings with 68 points, followed by NAU with 43 and Idaho State with 34.

Northridge long jumper Tanya Collier, who has had a history of trouble on the board and fouled out of the conference indoor championships the last two seasons, hit her mark to sail to victory with a careerbest 19 feet, 11-3/4 inches.

Collier’s triumph added to LaShaunda Fowler’s fourth at 19-1-1/2 and Brandi Prieto and Anicia Rimm’s fifth and sixth with wind-aided 18-9-1/4 and 18-8-1/2 marks gave the Matadors 22 points and a convincing jump toward their second outdoor conference championship in three years.

The Northridge women picked up 23 points in the pole vault, placing four among the top five with Allyson Crosby, Monica Tobin, Jennifer Capehart (each at 11-8) and Lisa Rugenstein (11-1-1/2) finishing second through fifth.

Collier, who competes in the triple jump today, had four jumps of 19-2 or better and two fouls well over 20 feet in the long jump.

With the loss of sprinter Genia Seymore to a stress fracture, Collier’s points in the long jump might be the boost the Matadors need to dethrone defending champion Weber State.

UI men in fourth

The University of Idaho men’s track team, on the strength of its throwers, scored 33 points and hold fourth place after the first day of competition at the Big West Conference Track and Field Championships in Fullerton, Calif.

The Idaho women scored 15 points and were in sixth place heading into today’s final rounds of competition.

The Idaho men got second-place finishes from Joachim Olsen in the discus and Jeff High in the hammer, but still finished well back of defending champion Utah State, which rolled up 82.33 points.

Cal Poly is second in the team standings with 50 points, followed by Long Beach State with 38.83.

Aloha Santiago finished third in the shot put and teammate Tia Taruscio did the same in the 10,000 meters for the Idaho women.

Nevada leads the women’s team standings with 57.50 points, followed by Long Beach State with 42.

Swift scores for Whits

Whitworth’s Danielle Swift, from Valley Christian School, finished second in the javelin at the women’s NCAA Division III track and field championships in Berea, Ohio.

Swift’s throw of 141 feet, 9 inches, was her personal best by more than 7 feet, but was still well off the winning toss of 145-3 turned in by Wisconsin Stevens Point’s Sara Groshek.

Whitworth’s Jeremy Whelham, from Northwest Christian School, will compete in the men’s javelin competition today.