FINAL RESULTS
SALEM, Ore. – Freshmen
Kyle Croft (Spokane, Wash.) and
James Myrvold (Sandy, Ore.) captured individual titles, as Corban's men's track & field team qualified three more Warriors for this year's Cascade Collegiate Conference Championships in a dual meet against NCAA Division III member Willamette Thursday at McCullough Stadium.
Myrvold began the day winning the high jump with a school-record leap of 1.98 meters (6-feet, 6-inches), as the first-year Warrior bettered the CCC's minimum qualification mark by 0.30 meters. In winning the event by six inches, Myrvold came within striking distance of meeting the NAIA's 'B' qualification standard faulting on all three attempts at 2.03 meters.
Following Myrvold's individual medal in the high jump, Croft stepped onto the track and defeated fellow Warrior teammate and freshman
Chris McGehee (Jefferson, Ore.) in the 110 meter hurdles with a CCC qualifying time of 17.12 seconds. Croft bettered the conference's minimum standard by 0.32 seconds, while McGehee clocked a time of 19.67 to finish as the race runner-up.
Freshman
Mark Hanson (Happy Valley, Ore.) also qualified for this season's CCC Championships with a throw of 51.73 meters (169-feet, 9-inches) in the javelin to finish second in the event. The first-year Warrior surpassed the conference's minimum standard by nearly nine meters.
Hanson and fellow freshman
Zach Conlee (Milton-Freewater, Ore.) rounded out the Warriors' competitors on the opening day of the Corban-Willamette Dual Meet with a sixth and eighth place showing, respectively, in the hammer throw. Hanson unleashed a throw of 34.86 meters (114-feet, 4-inches), while Conlee registered a throw of 33.76 meters (110-feet, 9-inches). Neither toss was good enough to qualify for the CCC Championships, but both are within striking distance after only two events this season.
Corban's men's track & field team will return to action on the second and final day of the Dual Meet between cross town rivals tomorrow – Friday, March 18th – beginning at 4:00 p.m. at McCullough Stadium in Salem.
