{"id":18508,"date":"2015-03-03T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=18508"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:42:55","slug":"keehn-claims-miaa-indoor-championship-in-5000-meters-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=18508","title":{"rendered":"Keehn claims MIAA Indoor Championship in 5000 meters Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Fort Hays State University senior distance runner <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2540&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2540\">Cory Keehn<\/a><\/dfn> won the 5000-meter run at the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association,\u00a0Indoor Track and Field Championships <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1615162004\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Warrensburg, Mo. He helped the Tigers sit in sixth place in the team standings after two days of competition.Keehn and teammate <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2525&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2525\">Jonny Bernasky<\/a><\/dfn> generated 16 team points in the 5000 meters. Keehn won the race in a time of 14:45.41, while Bernasky placed third in a time of 14:59.20.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kinuthia were also bright spots for the Tigers. Kinuthia topped the prelim field in the 800-meter run. He covered the distance in 1:53.67 to qualify for the finals on Sunday. <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2546&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2546\">Nate Simpson<\/a><\/dfn> finished fifth in the prelims of the 60-meter hurdles in a personal-best provisional qualifying time of 8.27 seconds. <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2541&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2541\">Cory Post<\/a><\/dfn> also produced two team points for the Tigers in the heptathlon, finishing with 4,608 points.<\/p>\n<p>The distance medley team of <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2542&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2542\">Nathan Purdue<\/a><\/dfn>, CJ Wilson, Michael Kinuthia and <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2533&amp;elinkdata=39525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2533\">Ryan Hopkins<\/a><\/dfn> finished fifth to produce four team points for FHSU in the final event of <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1615162005\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday<\/span><\/span>. The team ran a time of 10:24.13.<\/p>\n<p>FHSU\u00a0has 22 team points after <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1615162006\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Saturday&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> competition, tied with Emporia State for sixth. Pittsburg State leads the way with 59 points, followed by Central Missouri with 34.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Hays State University senior distance runner Cory Keehn won the 5000-meter run at the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic Association,\u00a0Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday\u00a0in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"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":[4542],"tags":[5005,902,4692,1892,4744,4642,4886,1893,1870],"class_list":["post-18508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-track-sports","tag-cj-wilson","tag-cory-keehn","tag-cory-post","tag-jonny-bernasky","tag-michael-kinuthia","tag-mid-american-intercollegiate-athletic-association","tag-nate-simpson","tag-nathan-purdue","tag-ryan-hopkins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18559,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions\/18559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}