Complete Portland Indoor Invitational Results

PORTLAND, Ore. - In their return trip to the House of Track facility in downtown Portland, the Western Oregon track and field team performed well among top teams from Division I and Division II Thursday.

Emmi Collier won the female shot put competition with a mark of 44 feet, 9 inches, a personal best and third best WOU distance all-time. The winning distance gave Collier a NCAA provisional qualifying mark in just her third event of the season.

David Cornish broke the WOU school record in the 3,000-meter race with a time of 8:27.63 to finish third overall and with a time 17 seconds faster than the next Division II competitor.

In the men's mile race, David Ribich and Sam Naffziger went 1-2 overall. Ribich's time of 4:12.41 was two one-hundredths faster than the NCAA Provisional mark while Naffziger crossed the line at 4:12.87.

Cody Warner posted the meet's best time in the 200 meters at 21.80, earning a provisional standard.

Chalk up another relay win for the WOU men's 4x400-relay squad. The quartet of AJ Holmberg, Josh Hanna, Aaron Whitaker and Badane Sultessa crossed the line nearly two seconds ahead of the University of Portland with a time of 3:21.76. The women's "A" relay team (Suzanne Van De Grift, Megan Rose, Bailey Beeson, Olivia Woods) won their heat and finished fifth overall.

Western Oregon returns to the Emerald City next weekend to compete in the Husky Classic (Friday-Saturday, Feb, 12-13) and the UW Indoor Open (Sunday, Feb. 14).


NCAA WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
Portland Indoor Invitational
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Nike Run House of Track / Portland, Ore.

Team scores- Not kept.

60 meter dash - 1. Genna Settle (Portland State) 7.63. WOU placers - 11. Laura Patrick 8.20; 14. Madeline Bernard 8.22; 19, Natalie Legras 8.49; 20. Hailey Sears 8.52; Lindsey Fletcher 8.60.
200 - 1. Genna Settle (Portland State) 24.70. WOU placers - 12. Maggie Boles 26.62; 17. Laura Patrick 26.96; 22. Natalie Legras 27.74; 24. Felicia Covey 28.72; 25. Sara Madden 28.74.
400 - 1. Venessa D'Arpino (Oregon State) 56.92. WOU placers - 7. Megan Rose 58.97 (WOU 5^th all-time); 13. Olivia Woods 1:00.14; 22. Leah Paffrath 1:03.25.
800- 1. McKayla Fricker (HPW/Brooks) 2:04.95. WOU placers - 8. Suzanne Van De Grift 2:19.27; 16. Kendra Zimmerdahl 2:25.83; 20. Amanda Ditzhazy 2:29.12.
Mile- 1. Anna Farello (Portland) 4:51.82. WOU placers - 9. Stephanie Stuckey 5:06.43; 11. Nicole Maurmann 5:08.17 (WOU 4^th all-time); 21. Lauren Kangas 5:24.68.
3000- 1. Grace McConnochie (Portland) 10:09.14. WOU placers - 13. Grace Knapp 10:46.15; 15. Kennedy Rufener 10:47.41 (WOU 10^th all-time); 18. Debora De Leon 11:06.00.
4x400 relay- 1. Portland State 3:50.57. WOU placer - 5. Western Oregon "A" (Van De Grift, Rose, Beeson, Woods) 4:00.06; 9. Western Oregon "B" (Boles, Covey, Patrick, Madden) 4:12.13.
Triple jump- 1. Ella Brown (Simon Fraser) 37-6 / 11.45m. WOU placer - 10. Kathryn Pitts 34-8 / 10.58 m.
Shot Put - 1. Emmi Collier (Western Oregon) 44-9 / 13.66m (WOU 3^rd all-time). Other WOU placers - 6. Rachael Huffman 39-9 / 12.12m; 9. Sylvia Dean 36-2 / 11.03m.


NCAA MEN'S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD
Portland Indoor Invitational
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Nike Run House of Track / Portland, Ore.

Team scores- Not kept.

60-meter dash- 1. Jebarri Cumberbatch (Eastern Oregon) 6.97. WOU placer - 4. Cody Warner 7.03.
200 - 1. Cody Warner (Western Oregon) 21.80. Other WOU placer - 11. Kaleb Dobson 23.59.
400- 1. Shaddye Melu (Seattle U) 48.65. WOU placers - 4. Aaron Whitaker 49.48 (WOU T-6^th all-time); 6. Badane Sultessa 49.75 (WOU 9^th all-time); 7. AJ Holmberg 50.37; 10. James Vettrus 51.76.
800- 1. Cameron Proceviat (Simon Fraser) 1:52.13. WOU placers - 3. Josh Dempsey 1:53.70 (WOU 9^th all-time); 14. Joe Soik 2:04.16
Mile - 1. David Ribich (Western Oregon) 4:12.41 (WOU 6^th all-time), Other WOU placers - 2. Sam Naffziger 4:12.87 (WOU 7^th all-time); 15. Zach Holloway 4:23.32.
3000- 1. Ben Forsee (Portland) 8:24.72. WOU placers - 3. David Cornish 8:27.63 (WOU School Record); 25. Tyler Jones 9:23.89.
60 hurdles- 1. Kevin Robinson (Portland State) 8.44. WOU placer - 2. Kaleb Dobson 8.49.
4x400 relay - 1. Western Oregon "A" (Holmberg, Hanna, Whitaker, Sultessa) 3:21.76.
Shot put- 1. Josh Koch (Concordia OR) 52-8 / 16.05m. WOU placers - 3. Jeremy Moore 49-7 / 15.11m; 7. Kenny Klippel 46-10 / 14.28m; 9. Stefan Seul 42-2 / 12.87m; 10. Frank Calzada 39-6 / 12.04m; 11. Zach Smith 39-0 / 11.89m.