By FHSU Sports Information<\/b><\/p>\n
Photo courtesy FHSU SID<\/p>\n
DES MOINES, Iowa – In their final competition to gear up at before the 2018 MIAA Championships, the Fort Hays State men’s track and field team showcased a strong performance at the Drake Relays in Des Moines.<\/p>\n
The event was highlighted by a first place finish in the distance medley relay, which completed their feat in a time of 9:57.22. The team was comprised of Oscar Carmona<\/a>, Jacob Schumacher<\/a>, Bill Oyet<\/a> and Brett Meyer<\/a>. This time was bettered their next opponent by just over three seconds. In the 4×1600 relay, Carmona, Seppe van’t Westende, Israel Barcso and Meyer claimed a third place finish with a 16:57.68 mark, a time which broke the previous school record standing since 1978.<\/p>\n Switching to the field, Jake Morrow<\/a> and Sam Dreiling<\/a> placed in the top ten in the pole vault. Morrow claimed sixth place at 16 feet, 2 inches while Dreiling finished in the ninth place position at the same height. Kolt Newell<\/a> earned 11th place in his field in the high jump, earning a mark of 6 feet, 8 inches. TJ Dozier<\/a> rounded out the notable mentions on the field with an eighth place finish in the discus, coming in at 165 feet, 4 inches.<\/p>\n The Tigers are back in action as they prepare for the MIAA Championships May 4-6 in Kearney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU Sports Information Photo courtesy FHSU SID DES MOINES, Iowa – In their final competition to gear up at before the 2018 MIAA Championships,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7349,4542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-track-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/meyer-1.jpg?fit=300%2C169","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38106,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38104\/revisions\/38106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}