Koford Places Seventh, Sets Personal Best In NWC Decathlon
Meet ResultsSALEM, Ore. – A strong second day allowed
Aaron Koford (Sr., Wilsonville, Ore.) to establish a new personal best in the decathlon Tuesday and earn Pacific's first points of the Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships with his performance at the NWC Multi-Event Championships, which finished Tuesday at the Charles Bowles Track.
Koford finished in seventh place with a total of 5,851 points, bettering his previous best of 5,745 points set at March's Boxer Combined Event meet. The performance also gives the Boxers' two team points, which will carry over to the NWC Championships, next week in Tacoma, Wash.
Michael Teves (Fr., Makawao, Hawaii) also bettered his personal best, finishing ninth with a total of 5,041 points. The performance moves Teves up to No. 7 on Pacific's all-time best list in the event.
Koford used the second day to his advantage, which features his strongest events. After placing fourth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 17.01 seconds, Koford won the discus, his strongest individual discipline, with a heave of 127 feet, 4.25 inches. He went on to finish fifth in the pole vault, clearing 12 feet, 11 inches, ninth in the javelin at 119 feet. 1.5 inches and finished the day with a seventh place finish in the 1,500 meters at 5:01.12.
Teves highlighted his day by tying for first in the pole vault, joining Puget Sound's Camreron Braithwaite and Whitworth's Deter Delap in clearing 13 feet, 7 inches. He opened the day with an eighth place finish in the 110-meter hurdles in 18.51 seconds, followed by ninth in the discus at 79 feet, 9.25 inches. Teves closed the day finishing sixth in the javelin (140 feet, 1.75 inches) and eighth in the 1,500 meters (5:11.44).
Delap won the NWC decathlon championship with a total of 6,731 points. Ezekiel Smith of George Fox finished second with 6,240 points and Whitworth's Stephen Cooper was third with 6,162 points. All three earn All-NWC honors.
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