By FHSU SPORTS INFORMATION
WARRENSBURG, Mo. – The Fort Hays State women’s track and field team earned a tenth place finish at the 2019 installment of the MIAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Central Missouri. Throughout the event, multiple Tigers achieved strong marks and places, with Alexcia Deutscher and Rohey Singhateh adding provisional marks.
Deutscher earned a fourth place finish in the javelin with her provisional throw of 148 feet, 4 inches. Singhateh claimed her provisional with a sixth place finish in the triple jump with her distance of 39 feet, 6 inches.
Other strong performances for the Tigers included a fifth place finish by Peri Lange in the heptathlon as she gather 4,500 points. Teammate Mattie Rossi finished close behind in ninth with 4,098 points of her own. Senior Yessenia Gonzales earned fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:30.05, followed by a sixth place finish in the 10,000-meters at 37:50.57. Abigail Stewart finished in the 10th place in the 10,000-meters with a time of 38:54.66
The Tiger strength continued into field events on the weekend. Robin Ritsema finished in fifth place (5 feet, 4 inches), Summer Kragel earned seventh (5 feet, 4 inches) and Haley George added an eighth place mark (5 feet, 2 inches) in the high jump. Singhateh also earned a 10th place mark in the long jump with her distance of 18 feet, 2 inches. Kayla Smith captured tenth place in the triple jump with her own jump of 38 feet, 7 inches.
Fort Hays State ended with 25.7 team points to finish in tenth place out of 13 MIAA programs. Pittsburg State won the team title as they accumulated 144.2 points, followed by Missouri Southern with 144 points in second, and Lincoln rounded out the top three finishes with 104 points as a team.