“It was a good day,” said jumper Ryan Grinell, who swept the high jump and triple jump and helped the Griz to dual wins over Montana State (120-76) and Eastern Washington (98-96). “Always the first outdoor meet of the year is about getting your feet wet.
“I felt like I got a pretty good start.”
“I think we're going to have a strong team this year,” said junior Nicole Walker, who won the 800 and ran a leg on UM's winning 1,600-meter relay. “Stronger than we have been ranked.
“This year we've been trying to really pull together as a team. In the past we've kind of been every man for himself - or woman.”
The thinclads, picked seventh in the Big Sky women's race and fifth in the men's, have been building camaraderie through team meetings and barbecues. You couldn't argue with the results this weekend: On Friday junior Curtis Bean threw the hammer 184 feet, nine inches to qualify for the Midwest Regional May 25-26 in Iowa; freshman Kara DeWalt started Saturday off by winning her first-ever 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Montana also had two wins from junior standout Loni Perkins-Judisch, in the 400 and 200. Her 400 time of 55.41 was just two hundredths of a second off the meet record, set by Idaho State's Selena Frazier in 2002. Perkins-Judisch also clocked 24.62 in the 200, just .13 off the record.
If their competition was a bit undermanned - Montana State redshirted sprinters Steve Heberly and Dan Johnson - so were the Griz. Montana has yet to work sprinter James Brown, who had surgery for a sports hernia earlier in March, back to full speed, and multi-event standout Chris Hicks sat out the meet with an illness.
“He's our best all-around athlete, really,” Montana coach Tom Raunig said of the freshman from Whitefish. “Without James, we're a little thin in the sprints.”
Raunig hopes to have James back for the Eastern Washington Invitational next weekend. But this weekend drew no complaints.
“For an early season meet, where you're trying to keep everybody healthy and not over-race people, it's going real well,” he said.
While Bean had a nice start, his hammer throw was a distant second to Eastern standout David Paul, who marked 214-2. Paul went onto sweep the discus and shot put on Saturday.
For UM, one hiccup came in the aforementioned women's 800, where freshman Brooke Andrus - Montana's leader in the event - took a tumble just 150 meters in.
“I saw her go down right next to me,” said Walker, who won in 2:18.69. “It was kind of freaky. Some girls were pushing in and we were trying to go out around the crowd.”
Andrus got up and surged to as high as third, but said she began to hyperventilate and dropped out.
“Brooke passed me, and I was like, ‘Go, go!' because I wanted her to qualify,” said junior Ashley Colbrese. “Then she just kind of, I don't know, died. She was probably on a big adrenaline rush. She just came flying by.”
Still, Walker and Colbrese added big points for UM.
“Huge confidence boost,” said Walker. “I was running so slow on indoor. This was like six seconds better than my best in indoor.”
Grinnell, meanwhile, cruised through the high jump, clearing 6-8 on his first attempt. The sophomore then went for the regional qualifying mark of 6-10þ, as did MSU freshman Charlie Hirning. Neither made it.
“It was pretty close,” said Grinnell, who won the triple jump at 48-2. “I felt good. There's still a few things I have to fix. But it will come.”
“I can't complain about the results. It was a pretty good, solid effort.”
NOTES: MSU's Ellie Rudy and Eastern's Carolee Gutierrez set meet records, Rudy in the pole vault (clearing 13-4 fi) and Gutierrez in the javelin (167-9). Rudy broke the mark of 13-4 set by MSU's Shannon Agee-Jones in 2002; Gutierrez surpassed the mark of 165-8 set by EWU's Stephanie Ulmer in 2006.
For UM, senior Halliday Quist (triple jump) and freshman Jessa Linford (high jump) won their events and qualified for the Big Sky meet. Kim Tritz was second in the steeplechase, Shannon Johnson was third in the 5,000 and Abbey Effertz was fourth in the shot, and all three met the Big Sky standards.
Johnson, Tritz and DeWalt also qualified for the 10,000 meters on the basis of their marks in the steeplechase or 5,000. Junior Bailey Cox won the long jump.
On the men's side, senior Matt Larson (high hurdles), junior Dan Bingham (steeplechase) and freshman Landon Bowery (400 hurdles) all won events with Big Sky-qualifying marks. Junior Cody Henning also qualified while finishing second in the 200, as did juniors Eli Hermann (second in the steeplechase) and Evan Wilson (sixth in the shot), as well as freshman Wade Boss (javelin, fifth).
Ryan Flaherty, a senior, added a UM win in the 800.
Loni Perkins-Judisch crosses the finish line to win the 400 with a time of 55.41 seconds.
Photo by TOM BAUER/Missoulian
13th annual Al Manuel Invitational, Dornblaser Stadium
MENDual scores: Montana 120, Montana State 76; Montana 98, Eastern Washington 96; Eastern Washington 103, Montana State 89.
100 - 1, Josh Dinius, Mary, 10.84; 2, Chad Butorac, EWU, 10.88; 3. Cody Henning, UM, 10.85; 4. Brian Lubinski, UM, 11.12; 5, Steve Keith, EWU, 11.19; 6. Josh Jhnes, EWU, 11.20.
200 - 1, Chad Butorac, EWU, 21.82; 2, Cody Henning, UM, 21.97; 3, Josh Dinius, Mary, 22.17; 4, Josh Jones, EWU, 22.56; 5, Brian Lubinski, UM, 22.85; 6, Tim Leier, Mary, 22.87.
400 - 1, Tim Leier, Mary, 49.82; 2, Jason Kirk, EWU, 50.48; 3, Kane Russell, UM, 50.88; 4, Brent Lindbery, Mary, 51.01; 5, Ryan Senn, UM, 51.21; 6, Mikel Erickson, MSU, 51.27.
800 - Ryan Flaherty, UM, 1:55.79; 2, Tyler Hopper, Albertsonertson, 1:55.79; 3, Erick Walter, EWU, 1:56.19; 4, Sean Clark, UM, 1:58.94; 5, Tony Wood, Mary, 1:59.68; 6, Matt Beamer, MSU, 2:00.44.
1,500 - Tyler Hopper, Albertson, 4:01.02; 2, Ryan Flaherty, UM, 4:02.05; 3, Dennis Brands, UM, 4:02.58; 4, Sam Hardy, Albertson, 4:08.56; 5, Mac BLoom, UM, 4:08.96; 6, Devin McDowell, MSU, 4:09.84.
5,000 - 1, Curtis Suver, EWU, 15:02.76; 2, Nick Atwood, MSU, 1:5:23.18; 3, Brett Carter, UM, 15:32.05; 4, Jesse Chlebech, Albertson, 15:33.27; 5, Michael Fisher, UM, 15:52.94; 6, Graydon Curry, MSU, 15:57.28.
110 hurdles - 1, Matt Larson, UM, 15.09; 2, Keil Holwegher, Mary, 15.20; 3, Josh Dinius, Mary, 15.21; 4, Landon Bowery, UM, 15.27; 5, Ben Soukop, MSU, 15.53; 6, Steve Bacon, EWU, 15.58.
400 hurdles - 1, Landon Bowery, UM, 54.78; 2, Nick Mundell, EWU, 55.32; 3, Bryan Somers, UM, 56.31; 4, Ben Soukop, MSU, 56.81; 5, Scott Peterson, MSU, 57.12; 6, Keil Holwegher, Mary, 57.14.
3,000 steeplechase - 1, Dan Bingham, UM, 9:26.11; 2, Eli Hermann, UM, 9:38.58; 3, Matt Beamer, MSU, 9:38.89; 4, Steven Gimple, UM, 10:01.31; 5, Chris Baldus, MSU, 10:29.56; 6, Tyler Gross, Albertson, 10:37.43.
400 relay - 1, Mary (Luke Schander, Josh Dinius, Kiel Holwegner, Brandon Dietz) 42.22; 2, Montana 42.45; 3, Eastern, 42.82; 4, Montana State 44.24.
1,600 relay - 1, Eastern Washington (Chad Butorac, Josh Jones, Erik Walte,r Jason Kirk) 3:19.25; 2, Mary 3:21.48; 3, Montana, 3:21.51; 4, Montana B 3:27.80.
High jump - 1, Ryan Grinnell, UM, 6-8; 2, Charlie Himing, MSU, 6-8; 3, Chad Chambers, EWU, 6-6; 4, Matt Ludwigson, EWU, 6-2; 5, Andy Mulvany, UM, 6-2; 6, Armand Hopkins, EWU, 6-2.
Pole vault - 1, Nick Morrow, MSU, 15-81/4; 2, Bobby Biskupiak, MSU, 14-81/4; 3, Gabe Chavez, EWu, 14-81/4; 4, Matt Ludwigson, EWU, 14-81/4; 5, Jake Alexander, Mary, 13-81/2.
Long jump - 1, Steve Bacon, EWU, 21-101/4; 2, Jeff Kaune, EWU, 21-8; 3, Ryan Grinnell, UM, 21-71/2; 4, Armand Hopkins, EWu, 21-71/4; 5, Bobby Biskupiak, MSU, 20-9; 6, Mike Green, MSU, 20-5.
Triple jump - 1, Ryan Grinnell, UM, 48-2; 2, Cameron Moore, EWU, 44-103/4; 3, Jeff Kaune, EWU, 44-9; 4, Levi Knudson, EWU, 43-81/2; 5, Armand Hopkins, EWU, 43-61/2; 6, Sean Clute, UM, 42-31/4.
Shot put - 1, David Paul, EWU, 56-101/4; 2, Tanner Rauk, MSU, 55-1; 3, Jesse Allen, MSU, 54-103/4; 4, Casey Clausen 50-81/4; 5, Brady Faire, EWU, 50-81/4; 6, Evan Wilson, UM, 50-11/4.
Discus - 1, David Paul, EWU, 177-11; 2, Chris Hellekson, UM, 151-10; 3, Jake Stevens, UM, 146-7; 4, Brady Faire, EWU, 145-2; 5, Evan Wilson, UM, 14-0; 6, Tanner Rauk, MSU, 140-4.
Hammer throw - 1, David Paul, EWU, 214-2; 2, Curtis Bean, UM, 184-9; 3, Nate Palmer, MSU, 177-5; 4, Andie Lester, EWU, 158-10; 5, Jesse Allen, MSU, 158-1; 6, Pat Eckerson, MSU, 151-9.
Javelin - 1, Nick Lam, MSU, 202-7; 2, Dustin Degen, MSU, 201-8; 3, Dan VanSwearingen, MSU, 198-11; 4, Taylor Hensen, MSU, 198-5; 5, Wade Boss, UM, 194-9; 6, Tyler Cathey, EWU, 190-1.
WOMEN
Dual scores: Montana 110, Montana State 81, Montana 105, Eastern Washington 86, Montana State 89, Eastern Washington 88.
100 - 1, Kacie Sweep, Mary, 12.54; 2, Krystal Deyo, EWU, 12.76; 3, Mishay Weber, Mary, 12.76; 4, Marsha Knight, Mary, 13.00; 5, Lindsey Buttrey, EWU, 13.06; 6, Mallory Henderson, UM, 13.10.
200 - 1, Loni Perkins-Judisch, UM, 24.62; 2, Kacie Sweep, Mary, 25.55; 3, Autumn Domitrovich, MSU, 25.68; 4, Mishay Weber, Mary, 25.92; 5, Sarah Frey, EWU, 26.12; 6, Marsha Knight, Mary, 26.24.
400 - 1, Loni Perkins-Judisch, UM, 55.41; 2, Autumn Domitrovich, MSU, 58.47; 3, Erin Clark, UM, 59.09; 4, Sarah Frey, EWU, 59.30; 5, Kristen Felderman, EWU, 59.63; 6, Cassie Blazer, Mary, 60.07.
800 - 1, Nicole Walker, UM, 2:18.69; 2, Hannah Moen, Mary, 2:19.41; 3, Nikki Buchholtz, EWU, 2:20.00; 4, Ashley Colbrese, UM, 2:21.51; 5, Stephanie Sparks, Albertson, 2:21.756; 6, Morgan Dunley, MSU, 2:22.00.
1,500 - 1, Camille Moseley, EWU, 4:45.21; 2, Ashley Colbrese, UM, 4:45.35; 3, Elisabeth Driscoll, MSU, 4:46.26; 4, Ashley Hadway, MSU, 4:49.69; 5, Kiri Garruto, EWU, 4:51.37; 6, Katie Ball, Albertson, 4:59.50.
5,000 - 1, Elisabeth Driscoll, MSU, 17:47.56; 2, Mattie Bridgmon, EWU, 17:59.00; 3, Shannon Johnson, UM, 18:07.90; 4, Ashley Hadway, MSU, 18:22.62; 5, Shannon Edwards, Albertson, 18;41.32; 6, Chelsea Burfeind, UM, 19:07.48.
100 hurdles - 1, Marsha Knight, Mary, 14.94; 2, Amber Aikins, UM, 15.25; 3, Halladay Quist, 15.34; 4, Bailey Cox, UM, 15.71; 5 (tie), Jessica Duran, EWU, and Brianna Perry, Mary, 15.94.
400 hurdles - 1, Cassie Blazer, Mary, 62:08. 2, Lindsey Burrington, MSU, 1:05.17; 3, Megan McKinnie, UM, 65.73; 4, Jayne Saunders, Albertson, 65.95; 5, Fawn Kirkpatrick, MSU, 67.14; 6, Michelle Huxtable, Mary, 68.26.
3,000 steeplechase - 1, Kara DeWalt, UM, 11:15.41; 2, Kim Tritz, UM, 11:27.42; 3, Kayla Larson, MSU, 11:4003; 4, Nikki Buchholtz, EWU, 12:05.65; 5, Leigh Frederickson, UM, 12:46.52; 6, Chantel Varland, Albertson, 13:08.96.
400 relay - 1, Eastern Washington (Lindsey Buttrey, Jessica Duran, Krystal Deyo, Sarah Frey), 48.10; 2, Montana, 48.50; 3, Mary, 48.51; 4, Montana State 49.08.
1,600 relay - 1, Montana (Erin Clarke, Bailey Cox, Stephanie Radke, Loni Perkins-Judisch) 3:54.05; 2, Mary 3:56.82; 3, Eastern Washington, 3:58.31; 4, Montana State 4:02.76; 5, Montana B 4:04.29; 6, Albertson 4:10.77.
High jump - 1, Jessa Linford, UM, 5-3/; 2, Megan Betz, UM, 5-1/; 3, Ambria Brautner, Mary, 5-1/; 4, Ashley Grammens, Mary, 4-11fi.
Pole vault - 1, Ellie Rudy, MSU, 13-4fi; 2, Ashley Tauylor, UM, 10-9; 3, Ann Simonich, Mary, 10-3/; 4, Heidi Beihl, MSU, 10-3/; 5, Sarah Eby, MSU, 10-3/.
Long jump - 1, Bailey Cox, UM, 17-10/; 2, Kayla Campbell, Mary, 17-10/; 3, Destinee Keller, Mary, 16-11/; 4, Amber Aikins, UM, 16-11/; 5, Courtney Austin, MSU, 16-8þ; 6, Ambria Brautner, Mary, 16-7þ.
Triple Jump - 1, Halladay Quist, UM, 37-8fi; 2, Candice Nell, EWU, 37-3/; 3, Destinee Keller, Mary, 37-2/; 4, Teanna Meinhold, EWU, 36-9; 5, Olivia Friestad, Mary, 36-6þ; 6, Ashley Grammens, Mary, 36-2/.
Shot put - 1, Kylee Zent, MSU, 47-3fi; 2, Alli Jones, MSU, 42-6/; 3, Carolee Gutierrez, EWU, 42-5/; 4, Abbey Effertz, UM, 42-0; 5, Amanda Faire, EWU, 42-0; 6, Kelly Odell, UM, 40-11.
Discus - 1, Carolee Gutierrez, EWU, 142-9; 2, Kylee Zent, MSU, 142-6; 3, Bonnie Millard, EWU, 140-8; 4, Valerie Bertsch, EWU, 133-10; 5, Melissa Ramirez, Mary, 129-5; 6, Abbey Effertz, UM, 128-0.
Hammer throw - 1, Karen Helvey, MSU, 180-9; 2, Ashley Jones, MSU, 172-7; 3, Alli Jones, MSU, 172-6; 4, Carolee Gutierrez, EWU, 170-4; 5, Valerie Bertsch, EWU, 158-5; 6, Lise Kilgore, MSU, 153-0.
Javelin - 1, Carolee Gutierrez, EWU, 167-9; 2, Kim Berg, MSU, 162-4; 3, Pam Passmore, MSU, 135-11; 4, Sonny Schulz, Mary, 135-7; 5, Tabby Spencer, MSU, 133-6; 6, Lisa Schoer, Mary, 132-10.
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