Relays Lead 12 Pacific Event Winners At Luau Meet
Meet Results
FOREST GROVE – Pacific impressed the home crowd in their first home meet of the 2013 season with an explosive all-around performance Saturday as the Boxers won 12 different events to lead the way at the Pacific Luau Meet at Lincoln Park Stadium.
The Pacific men won eight events, including both relays, to run away with the team title with a total of 189.5 points. The Boxer women won four events and also won both relays as they finished third of five teams with a total of 121 points.
The relays set the table for the Boxers' impressive day. The women's 400-meter team of
Kelli Aken-Pagdilao (So., Makakilo, Hawaii),
Emily Tuffey (So., Valencia, Calif.),
Sarah Tuffey (Jr., Valencia, Calif.) and
Alexis Damo (Fr., Honolulu, Hawaii) opened with a winning time of 50.55 seconds while the men's relay of Craig Bailey (So., Fairfield, Calif.),
Sean Valente (Jr., Ewa Beach, Hawaii),
Matthew Dodier (So., Portland, Ore.) and
Michael Zane (So., Honolulu, Hawaii) won with a season best of 43.07 seconds.
Pacific's women's 1,600-meter relay team, comprised of the same four women as the short relay, won with a season best time of 4:13.19 that ranks as the second best time in school history. The men's long relay quarter of
Spencer Wilson (So., La Pine, Ore.),
Trey Oshiro-Atabay (So., Aiea, Hawaii),
Stefan Lemak (Fr., Los Altos, Calif.) and Valente added a victory with a time of 3:28.52.
Zane added to the men's sprint successes by winning the 200 meters in a wind aided 22.33 seconds. It is the fastest 200-meter time run by a Pacific athlete since 1983 and would have ranked No. 9 on Pacific's all-time list had the wind been legal. Wagner won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.86 seconds, finishing literally thousandths of a second ahead of teammate
Michael Hunker (Sr., Cornelius, Ore.), who was credited also with 15.86 seconds. Dodier finished second in the 100 meters in a Northwest Conference Championships qualifying time of 11.42 seconds.
Sarah Tuffey led the women's sprinters individual efforts with her season best time of 1:02.35 in the 400 meters, placing second. Aken-Pagdilao placed second in the 200 meters with a time of 26.44 seconds and was third in the 100 meters in 12.86 seconds.
Cyan Agena (So., Kapolei, Hawaii) finished third in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.67 seconds and
Dannika Sullivan (Fr., Portland, Ore.) was third in the women's 400-meter hurdles in 1:10.66.
Tyler Shipley (Fr., Forest Grove, Ore.) was given little challenge in his first home track race as a Boxer, cruising to victory in the men's 5,000 meters in a time of 15:11.70.
Rachel Schreiber (So., Longmont, Colo.) placed third in the women's 1,500 meters, finishing just short of her season best in a time of 4:51.07.
Mackenzie Huddleston (Fr., Milwaukie, Ore.) led three Pacific winners in the jumps, winning the women's long jump with a clearance of 5 feet, 1 inch, that ties her for No. 3 in school history.
Chloe Hallyburton (Sr., Dayton, Ore.) tied for third with a clearance of 4 feet, 9 inches.
Kelson Kawai (Jr., North Kohala, Hawaii) won the men's high jump at 6 feet, 5 inches, better the same mark of
Budweiser Hawkins (So., Las Vegas, Nev.) based on previous misses.
Hawkins was a winner in the men's long jump, tying his season best at 21 feet, 11 inches. Oshiro-Atabay was second with a leap of 21 feet, 6 inches.
McKenna Davidson (Fr., Kailua, Hawaii) was second in the women's long jump with a season best of 15 feet, 7 inches.
Britta LaVoie (Fr., Spokane, Wash.) put together a 20-inch season best in the pole vault, placing fourth with her vault of 10 feet, 3 inches. The performance ranks LaVoie No. 2 on Pacific's all-time list.
In the throws,
Anna Toyas (Jr., Seaside, Ore.) won the women's javelin with a personal best of 122 feet, 4 inches.
Jesse Bethke (So., Cave Junction, Ore.) led four top-five placers in the men's discus, placing second with a throw of 132 feet, 3 inches.
Tim Claussen (Fr., Yamhill, Ore.) was third with a season best of 130 feet, 8 inches.
Taylor Hickson (So., Red Bluff, Calif.) added a second place finish in the men's javelin with a throw of 163 feet, 3 inches.
Pacific will have a busy week upcoming with athletes spread out among three different meets. The Boxers' decathletes will participate in the NWC Multi-Event Championships on Monday and Tuesday in Tacoma, Wash. A select group of Pacific athletes will try to gain entry into the Oregon Relays on Friday and Saturday at Hayward Field and the rest of the team will compete at the Lewis & Clark Invitational on Saturday in Portland.
