Results from the first day of the NCC Outdoor Championships

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Yeah sorry this is late, but I was finishing up a paper due at midnight tonight, but here are the results from the final North Central Conference Championships, which are being held at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls. NCC officials decided to hold a major of the events on Friday because of bad weather forecasts on Saturday.

The USD women stormed out of the gate on Friday and are poised to win their fifth straight NCC outdoor title. The Coyote women have scored 238 points in 19 events, which is only 1.4 points off the league record for meet points of 239.4, set by North Dakota State in 2002. Minnesota State-Mankato is a distant second with 138 points, a full 100 points behind the Coyotes.

The Coyote men are in second after the first day of competition with 162 points in 19 events. Minnesota State-Mankato should win their second strait outdoor title and have accumulated 247.5 points in the 19 events.

For the women:

Sophomore Jasmine Mosley won both the discus (143′01) and shot put (48′04) and both distances were provisional marks for the NCAA Division II outdoor nationals. Junior Shaneka Parkes won the javelin throw with a provisional mark of 143′0 for nationals. Sophomore Danielle Dornbusch won the women’s hammer throw with a toss of 160′0 and Mosley finished second (158′0).

Senior Stephanie Gebhart won the 400-meter dash with an automatic qualifying mark for nationals with a time of :54.62. She also finished second in the 200-meter dash (:24.74).

Freshman Emma Erickson continued her stellar freshman season by winning the 800-meter dash with a time of 2:11.22. Erickson competed in the 800 after finished second in the 1,500 meter-run (4:41.73), which finished 70 minutes for the 800 meter run.

Parkes, Gebhard, Erickson, and junior Jenessa Filler earned a title in the 4×100-meter relay with a time of :46.89. Gebhart, Erickson, junior Allison Smith, and sophomore Rosalie Brueske contributed to win the 4×400-meter relay with a time of 3:49.07.

Sophomore Ramsey Kavan won the 10,000-meter run with a clocking fo 35:37.59, which is an automatic qualifying mark for nationals. Junior Kelsey Maloney finished third in the 10,000-meter run (36:42.36)

Freshman Amber Hegge won the triple jump with a distance of 38′04.25, which is a provisional mark for nationals. Hegge finished second in the high jump (5′03.25) and the long jump (17′10.25).

Senior Lindsay House won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14:67.

Filler finished second in the 100-meter dash with a time of :12.22 and Parkes finished third (:12.26). Filler also finished third in the 200-meter dash (:24.91).

For the men:

Senior Terry Liggins won both the 110-meter hurdles (:14.86) and 400-meter hurdles (:54.08). Liggins is the only athlete to ever win the 60-meter hurdlers in the indoor season and the 110 meter hurdles in the outdoor season all four years.

Senior Ben Walters won the hammer throw with a toss of 175′06 and finished second in the shot put (51′01). Junior Preston Scott won the discus with a throw of 152′02, followed by a second place throw from freshman Kyle Wheeler (151′03) and Walters was third (149′06).

Senior Colte Haines won the triple jump with a distance of 46′08.25.

Senior Josh Jeffery was second in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:59.79.

The Coyotes 4×400-meter relay finished second with a clocking of 3:17.20.

Junior Alex Perkowski, freshman Jared Clement, sophomore Quincy Christie, and freshman Andrew Langner combined for a third place finished in the 4×100-meter relay with a time of :42.75.

Senior Josh Olson finished second in the long jump with a distance of 22′11.

Junior Dylan Grau placed third in the javelin (189′03).

Senior Scott Hargen earned a third place finishe in the 800-meter run (1:53.90).

The meet will start at 8:30 in the morning at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls tomorrow.

———Justin Rust

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