Results

BOULDER, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines turned in some big performances Friday night as they competed at the Colorado Invitational.

The Orediggers, running just track at the meet, produced nine new or improved NCAA provisional qualifying times, and saw another new program record from Everett Delate in the 60m hurdles while winning three events overall. 

Delate set the tone for the evening with his second consecutive record-breaking weekend, resetting his 60m hurdles mark with a 7.92 clocking in the finals to finish second. Prior to last weekend, no Oredigger had ever run under 8 seconds, but Delate has now done it in four consecutive races with 7.99 in prelims and then his 7.92 final to best his 7.98 mark from last week at UCCS. More importantly, Delate secured his spot in the national top-10 moving up to the #7 performance in D-II this season. Coulton Chan finished seventh in 8.35 after advancing to finals with an 8.45 time, and Spenser Lamb ran 8.95 in prelims.

In their first indoor action since cross country nationals in early December, Mines' distance runners didn't disappoint with some huge times in the mile and 3,000m. The men's invitational mile included NCAA cross country champion Dillon Powell and all-American Loic Scomparin taking on an elite field, and the pair turned in two of NCAA Division II's four fastest times of the season in their first collegiate attempts at the distance. Powell closed second overall - behind three-time D-I All-American Sam Gilman of Air Force - in a blazing 4:05.64, the fastest Mines mile ever run at altitude, while Scomparin was fourth in 4:06.83; those times convert to 3:59.65 and 4:00.81 at sea level, respectively, and rank #2 and #4 in D-II this season. Powell's raw time ranks fourth all-time at Mines at any elevation, and Scomparin's sixth. 

Earlier in the open mile, it was an Oredigger sweep as Duncan Fuehne and Zoe Baker won their respective races. Fuehne led a big group of Oredigger men with a 4:14.42 time, winning at the line over Wyoming's Asefa Wetzel for an NCAA provisional time. Chris Cathcart was sixth in 4:16.65, Alberto Campa ninth in 4:17.52, Ethan Grolnic 11th in 4:17.88, Paul Knight 12th in 4:20.93, John O'Malley 14th in 4:23 flat, and Andrew Kaye 17th in 4:25.29. 
Meanwhile, the women's race turned into a Mines sweep as Baker (4:56.96), Clare Peters (4:58.44), and Alex Raichart (5:01.89) took the top three spots and Molly Maksin was fifth in 5:12.21. Grace Strongman finished ninth in 5:14.67 and Holly Moser 10th in 5:15.43 to give Mines six of the top 10 finishers. Baker and Peters now rank #3 and #4 and Raichart #12 in D-II as they all hit provisional times. 

Luke Julian was Mines' lone entrant in the Invitational 3,000m and he turned in a big performance at 8:16.91 for second overall; that will convert to an NCAA provisional time and easily inside the national top 10 this season at #6.

In the 800m, Tim Thompson earned the event win with a 1:52.75 personal best, earning him an NCAA provisional time at #13 in the nation. Andrew Gebhardt was fifth in 1:54.22, and also of note in the field was Mines alumnus and nine-time all-American Patrick Weaver, who ran eighth. In the women's 800m, Miranda Manfre was third in 2:20.13 with Avary Catchings fifth in 2:27.33, 

In the 60m dash, Garrett Halbrooks ran 7.03 for 11th and Zack Raake 7.14 for 16th, and the pair also ran the 200m with Raake 15th (22.73) and Halbrooks 16th (23.21). Jonah Fallon was 16th in the 400m at 53.46.

NEXT UP
Mines' weekend continues Saturday with the field competitors at UCCS, and the women's 400m and 800m specialists at Boston University.