Results

COLORADO SPRINGS - Everett Delate's new program record in the 60m hurdles led eight event wins by Colorado School of Mines as they got back to indoor track & field action at the Colorado Running Company UCCS Invite.

The Orediggers won six events on the track - four for the men and two for the women - and added another two wins in the field as they hit numerous collegiate bests and NCAA provisional marks.

OREDIGGERS WIN SIX EVENTS ON THE TRACK
Delate blazed to a new program record - and the event win - in the 60m hurdles, becoming the first Mines man to run sub-8 seconds and doing it twice on Saturday. Delate snapped Triston Sisneros' record of 8.01 with a 7.99 prelim clocking, then took a tick off that a 7.98 to win the final over a largely D-I field. Coulton Chan also made finals running 8.50 (8.49 prelim), and Spenser Lamb was 17th in 8.89. Delate's time ranks in the top-10 nationally and improves on his NCAA provisional status this season. 

Jonah Fallon kept the winning ways going win the 400m where he beat the field in 50.19, and in the 60m dash, it was Zack Raake with a new collegiate best as he became the fifth Oredigger man to cross the line in under seven seconds. After running 7.0 flat in prelims, Raake hit a new PR of 6.98 seconds to finish fifth in the event. Garrett Halbrooks ran 7.11 for 15th. 

Tim Thompson added a win in the 800m as he and Andy Gebhardt finished first and third. Thompson won by more than a second in 1:54.90, while Gebhardt crossed in 1:56.33. Thompson would finish the day anchoring the men's 4x400 to a 3:23.06 victory as Delate, Fallon, Gebhardt, and he won by nearly five seconds over the field. 

On the track for the women, Mackenzie Duck led the way with a dominating event win of 2:17.55 in the 800m. That should equate to an NCAA provisional mark with altitude and track conversions, and is the #3 time in the RMAC this season. Miranda Manfre finished fourth in 2:24.74. A quartet of Orediggers finished in the top eight of the 400m dash as Aryelle Wright finished second in 58.37, Grace Galvin fifth in 59.82, Randi Higashi sixth in 1:00.36, and Avary Catchings eighth in 1:00.83. 

The women's 4x400 was also a winner, cruising by nearly six seconds over UCCS' entry in 3:56.90. The Orediggers' Randi Higashi, Duck, Wright, and Amena Nelson turned in the #4 all-time performance at Mines. Nelson also made her individual season debut in the 200m and was sixth in 26.68, while Sidney Walshaw (10.06) and Avery Wright (10.07) finished 15th and 16th, respectively, in the women's 60m hurdles. 

POTRYKUS, REDMOND LEAD FIELD EFFORTS
Hunter Potrykus' new career indoor best to win the pole vault highlighted a successful Oredigger day in the field. Potrukus cleared 5.10m on his final attempt at the bar to win the event, setting the new NCAA #5 performance of the season and improving his own PR by three centimeters. Shane Conley was fourth and Jackson Wray sixth in the vault as both got over 4.50m. 

Grant Redmond won the high jump with a top bar of 2.03m, beating out a field that was almost entirely D-I competition. Arvid Veidmark IV was second overall and the top D-II competitor in the weight throw hitting 16.73m, with Davin Kiesby sixth (15.78m) and Brody Welch ninth (13.42m). Veidmark was also fifth in the shot put at 15.64m with Welch eighth (14.86m), Hayden Swim ninth (14.83m), and Kiesby 10th (13.53m). 

Fischer James Espiritu Argosino opened his triple jump season with a 13.50m mark for fifth as the only D-II competitor in his field.

Mines women's pole vaulters took three of the top four spots in the women's pole vault as Ava Kowalski and Hannah Miller each cleared 3.80m and Dale Thompson 3.70m. It marked a new collegiate indoor best for Kowalski while Thompson was just a centimeter off her best. 

Lexye Wood cleared 1.66m for third in the high jump and also finished seventh as the top D-II long jumper at 5.64m. Also in the high jump, Claire Kintzley and Abbi Gillespie cleared 1.56m for seventh and eighth, respectively, with Avery Wright 10th at 1.51m. Claire Kintzley snagged fourth in the triple jump hitting a new personal best of 11.09m, and Kitt Rupar finished 11th in the shot put at 11.57m with Avery Wright 15th at 9.81m and Sidney Walshaw 17th at 8.02m.

NEXT UP
The Orediggers will split up next weekend with part of the team heading back to UCCS for the Mountain Lions Open and others flying to Boston for the John Thomas Terrier Classic at BU.