By FHSU Sports Information<\/b><\/p>\n
Photo courtesy FHSU SID<\/em><\/p>\n KEARNEY, Neb. – The Fort Hays State men’s track and field team produced six All-MIAA performances, including two individual championships. The team competed at the conference championships held in Kearney May 4-6.<\/p>\n Brett Meyer<\/a> and Decano Cronin<\/a> brought home the two championship performances. Meyer claimed first in the 1,500-meters at a time of 3:53.30, while Cronin out-ran his field in the 800-meters with a finishing time of 1:50.06. Meyer earned another All-MIAA honor in the 800-meters after finishing in third place at 1:51.25.<\/p>\n The other three All-Conference performers for the Tigers came during the field events. Jake Morrow<\/a> finished in the runner-up position in the pole vault with his height of 16 feet, 11 inches. Lucas Broxterman<\/a> also finished in second place in his event of the high jump at 6 feet, 11 inches, followed by teammate Kolt Newell<\/a> in third place at the same height.<\/p>\n Other solid performances highlighted the championship weekend for the Tigers, including Malcom Gardner<\/a> claiming two top-ten performances. Gardner took sixth in the 200-meters (21.29) and eighth in the 100-meters (10.59) which were both good enough times for provisional marks. Oscar Carmona<\/a> earned fourth in the 1,500-meters with a time of 3:56.77, while also claiming sixth in the 5,000-meters at 15:26.47.<\/p>\n Kyle Comstock<\/a> capped a sixth place finish in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.74 and Weston Riner<\/a> ran for 54.83 in the 400-meter hurdles to place seventh. In relay competition, Comstock, Jacob Schumacher<\/a>, Johnathan Penrose<\/a> and Gardner led the way to a fifth place finish in the 4×100 at 41.82, while a fourth place time of 3:15.77 in the 4×400 relay comprised of Schumacher, Meyer, Gardner and Cronin sealed strong relay performances.<\/p>\n Switching to field performances, Sam Dreiling<\/a> earned another provisional in the pole vault coming in eighth place with a height of 15 feet, 9 inches. TJ Dozier<\/a> earned a fifth place finish in the discus with his throw of 167 feet, 2 inches for a provisional. In the javelin, Derek Bixenman<\/a> placed ninth at 175 feet, 8 inches, while also earning fourth place in the decathlon with a provisional 6,497 points. Teammate Matthew Pieper<\/a> was close behind in fifth place alongside his provisional points at 6,467.<\/p>\n As a team, the Tigers amassed 90.5 points to finish in the fifth place. Pittsburg State led the way with 166.5 points followed by Central Missouri (103.5) and Emporia State (92).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By FHSU Sports Information Photo courtesy FHSU SID KEARNEY, Neb. – The Fort Hays State men’s track and field team produced six All-MIAA performances, including… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38204,"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-38203","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\/05\/meyer.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\/38203","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=38203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38205,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38203\/revisions\/38205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}