Results

PUEBLO, Colo. - Colorado School of Mines track & field battled the cold and wind at the Spank Blasing Invite hosted by CSU Pueblo.

Mines made the most of the conditions to produce a number of standout performances in Pueblo, while high winds moved the pole vault competitions to UCCS' Mountain Lion Fieldhouse in Colorado Springs, producing a pair of Oredigger victories.

Indoor all-American Hunter Potrykus won the men's pole vault by three bars, clearing a solid early-season mark of 5.12m. Aidan Bennett and Shane Conley tied for third at 4.52m, with Noah Kelly fifth at the same height and Jackson Wray sixth at 4.22m. Meanwhile, indoor national champion Hannah Miller won the women's competition on fewest misses at 3.94m, with Avery Herbold third at 3.84m and Ava Kowalski sixth at 3.59m.

The Orediggers' day on the track was led by Everett Delate, who blazed to a wind-aided 14.10 second-place finish in the 110m hurdles. His time was the fastest all-conditions 110m hurdles by an Oredigger since 1986 as he was the top Division II runner in the field of 32. Coulton Chan placed 17th in a legal-wind 15.35, his collegiate best time. 

The women's 100m hurdles saw Avery Wright placed 11th in a wind-aided 15.68 ahead of Sidney Walshaw's 14th-place 16.61, also wind-aided. 

The women's 400m was headed by the top-10 Mines trio of Aryelle Wright, Mackenzie Duck, and Allison Comer; Wright (57.60) and Duck (58.28) went 2-3 with Comer placing eighth (59.93), and Avary Catchings (11th, 1:01.97) and Miranda Manfre (14th, 1:03.27) also finished in the top 15. Running for the first time since claiming the RMAC indoor title in the 400m, freshman Jonah Fallon placed sixth in the event at 50.14 seconds, heading a trio of Orediggers that included Andy Gebhardt (12th, 51.38) and Tim Thompson (13th, 51.49). 

In the 100m, Garrett Halbrooks ran a wind-aided 10.98, while in the women's race, Amena Nelson placed 17th with a new career-best 12.77 time into a headwind. Grace Galvin was a spot behind in a wind-aided 12.81, and Randi Higashi ran 13.37 for 28th. Galvin later placed 14th in the 200m at 26.77 seconds, with Higashi 24th in 27.26, and Elijah Quinby made his Mines debut in the 400m hurdles in 58.16 for 12th.

The men's 4x400 meter relay of Delate, Gebhardt, Thompson, and Fallon ran 3:26.60 for third (second among D-II teams), and the women's relay of Galvin, Higashi, Nelson, and Aryelle Wright ran 4:01.53 to also take third, tops among D-II, with the B-squad of Avery Wright, Walshaw, Comer, and Catchings recording 4:06.43 for sixth.

In the men's triple jump, Fischer James Espiritu Argosino placed eighth at 13.54m, and Claire Kintzley took 10th in the women's competition hitting 11.08m. Garrett Lanker placed 10th in the men's javelin with a best attempt of 45.37m, with Jennifer Jarnagin 22nd in the women's event at 26.70m. In the men's hammer, Hayden Swim was 18th at 43.51m and Rylie Ward placed 32nd at 34.27m in the women's hammer. 

Lexye Wood was a highlight of the Orediggers' Saturday in the field events placing third in the long jump - and first among D-II competitors - with a 5.54m best attempt, which is just three centimeters off her outdoor career best. Wood would go on to place ninth in the high jump at 1.55m, with Abbi Gillespie 11th (1.50m) and Kintzley 12th (1.45m). Grant Redmond was the runner-up in the men's high jump - and top among D-II jumpers - clearing 1.95m, and Garrett Halbrooks placed 17th in the men's long jump at 6.32m. 

NEXT UP
Mines heads back to Pueblo next weekend for the CSU Pueblo Invite #3 on Friday and Saturday, while also sending a selection of distance runners to the Stanford Invitational.