FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n
Fort Hays State women’s track and field turned in a solid showing at a pair of events this weekend (April 7-8), competing at the Friends Invitational in Wichita, Kan. and the West Texas A&M Classic in Canyon, Texas. The Tigers turned in a well-rounded performance between sprinters, distance runners and field participants.<\/p>\n
Friends Invitational<\/strong><\/p>\n Lauren Roberts had a solid day, placing in both the 800m run and the 1500m run. She came in third place in the 800m with a time of 2:23.28 and in the 1500m she crossed the line in 4:54.01, good for second place.<\/p>\n The Tigers dominated in the 5000m run, sweeping the top three places. Shea Bonine led the pack with a time of 17:31.58, finishing first. Micki Krzesinski and Sophie Dalmasso where the next two to finish with times of 17:39.36 and 18:27.21, respectively.<\/p>\n Kelly Wycoff picked up a first place finish and improved her provisional mark in the 100m dash with a time of 11.85 seconds and Peri Lange rounded out the sprints for FHSU with a third-place finish in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:07.21.<\/p>\n In the field events, Selam Ball was the lone Tiger to place when she picked up a second place finish in the pole vault. Her vault of 10′ 11.75” was tied for first with Iowa Western’s Monique Apuakehau but came a try after Apuakehau cleared the height.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top finishers for the Tigers was the 4x100m relay team of Yamoudji Diarra, Lindsay Shupe, Amber Forbes, and Wycoff. The sprinters combined for a time of 48.64 seconds and a third place finish.<\/p>\n West Texas A&M Classic<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tigers sent their multi-athletes and javelin throwers south to compete at the West Texas A&M Classic.<\/p>\n Estefania Lopez broke her own school record in the javelin with a toss of 175′ 5″, improving her automatic NCAA qualifying mark and extending her lead as the top thrower in the country. The second-best throw in NCAA Division II this year is more than 20 feet shorter than Saturday’s heave. Lopez finished first in the field of 14 throwers.<\/p>\n Freshman Alexcia Deutscher also improved her season-best mark, finishing second with a toss of 149′ 0″. The provisional mark moves her back into fifth in the country and second in the MIAA behind her teammate.<\/p>\n Next up for the Tigers is a trip to Kearney, Neb. on Saturday (April 15) when they compete in the UNK Loper Invitational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FHSU Sports Information Department Fort Hays State women’s track and field turned in a solid showing at a pair of events this weekend (April 7-8),… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"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":true,"_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":[10567,604,5792,106,181],"class_list":["post-32131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-track-sports","tag-tigerpride","tag-fhsu-athletics","tag-fhsu-track-and-field","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-miaa"],"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\/32131","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\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32132,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32131\/revisions\/32132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}