The Western Oregon track and field teams were split into two places this past weekend with the multi athletes in Idaho on Friday and Saturday while other members of the team headed North to Portland on Sunday.
 
Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open & Multi
 
WOU's action began Friday at the Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open & Multi in Moscow, Idaho.
 
In the men's heptathlon, Gabe Burchfield just missed passing his No. 3 mark in WOU history (4,399) when he took fifth with 4,386 points. Freshman Caleb Ness in his collegiate heptathlon debut took eighth with 4,133 points – good for sixth place in WOU history.
 
In the women's pentathlon, WOU's Macy Clemens took 10^th with 2,963 points – improving her No. 8 mark in WOU history (was 2,922) while teammate Amity Deters was just behind her in 11^th with 2,905 points (she already ranks sixth in WOU history with 3,055 points).
 
Portland Indoor #1
 
The Wolves entered runners in the men's and women's 1,000-meter and mile races at Sunday's events at the Chiles Center.
 
For the men, Talon Aguilar took sixth in the 1,000 with a time of 2 minutes, 52.95 seconds. In the mile, Logan Parker led five WOU runners with a time of 4:32.29.
 
On the women's side, Abbigale Elliott took fourth in the 1,000 (3:24.18) while freshman Amelia Merritt paced six Wolves in the mile race with a time of 5:15.22 (less than five seconds from reaching the WOU top 10 in the event).
 
The Wolves return to action Friday as they compete at the UW Invite.