SEATTLE -- Washington State's women's team took eighth place and the Cougar men's team Saturday during the second and final day of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Dempsey Indoor Facility.
 
One of the most impressive Cougar showings on the day came in the men's 60m hurdles final where WSU grabbed 14 points. Sam Brixey (freshman, Boise, Idaho) captured third place in a time of 7.95 seconds with CJ Allen (senior, Allyn, Wash.) fourth in a PR time of 7.97. Christapherson Grant (sophomore, Lynnwood, Wash.) placed seventh in a time of 8.10 after running a PR time of 8.05 in the prelims, and Abu Kamara (redshirt junior, Kent, Wash.) was eighth in a time of 8.16.
 
Less than an hour later, CJ Allen scored again when he ran the 400m dash for the first time this season and his 47.32 time was eighth-best.
 
Ja'Maun Charles (sophomore, Pleasanton, Calif.) took fourth place in the men's 60m dash final with a time of 6.80.
 
Kiana Davis (senior, Longview, Wash.) placed fourth in the women's high jump with a season-best bar at 5-8 3/4 (1.75m). Liz Harper, winner of Friday's pentathlon, cleared 5-5 (1.65m) for 13th while Lateah Holmes cleared the same height but finished 15th. Davis scored again as the top Cougar woman in the triple jump, leaping to a fourth-place finish with a distance of 40-10 1/4 (12.45m). Greer Alsop (redshirt junior, Invercargill, New Zealand) took fifth place with a mark of 40-9 3/4 (12.44m).
 
In the men's triple jump, Robby Flores (sophomore, El Paso, Texas) soared to a PR distance of 48-10 1/4 (14.89m) for fourth place.
 
Matthew Swanson (redshirt senior, North Vancouver, B.C.) scored with a fifth-place finish in the men's 800m race with a season-best time of 1 minute 51.16 seconds.
 
Devon Bortfeld (junior, Sammamish, Wash.) became a double-event scorer for the Cougar women. Saturday she placed sixth in the 3000m with a PR time of 9:22.54, third-best in WSU all-time records. Friday Bortfeld took seventh in the 5000m with an improved WSU indoor record time of 16:16.42.
 
The Cougar men's 1600m relay squad of Charles, CJ Allen, Corey Allen and Swanson ran a time of 3:13.00 to score at eighth place. The WSU women's 4x400m relay team of Stephanie Cho, Regyn Gaffney, Marlow Schulz and Liz Harper ran a time of 3:49.65 for ninth.
 
Other WSU men competing Saturday included: Reid Muller, 800m (1:54.84 - 15th), Paul Ryan, mile, PR 4:06.31 - 11th, Sam Levora, 3000m (PR 8:08.26 - 13th), Chandler Teigen, 3000m (PR 8:11.78 - 19th), Nathan Wadhwani, 3000m (PR 8:18.59 - 28th), Nathan Tadesse, 3000m (8:31.91 - 37th), Keelan Halligan, high jump (2.06m/6-9 - 13th), Peyton Fredrickson, high jump (tied PR 2.01m/6-7 - 16th), Cole Smith, high jump (1.96m/6-5 - 18th), Josh Colbert, triple jump (13.81m/45-3 3/4 - 11th), and Jake Callaghan, shot put (16.64m/54-7 1/4 - 15th).
 
Additional Cougar women competitors included: Natalie Ackerley, 800m (PR 2:13.20 - 17th), Grace Victor, 800m (2:16.28 - 28th), Morgan Lash, mile (5:10.07 - 44th), Emily Dwyer, 3000m (PR 9:45.06 - 22nd), Morgan Willson, 3000m (PR 9:45.16 - 23rd), Melissa Hruska, 3000m (PR 10:21.66 - 36th), and Vallery Korir, 3000m (DNF).
 
No. 5 USC won the women's team title with 125 points followed by No. 1 Oregon's 105. The rest of the MPSF team standings were: 3) No. 23 Stanford 57, 4) UCLA 52.33, 5) No. 22 Colorado 52, 6) Arizona State 45, 7) Washington 41, 8) Washington State 33.50, 9) No. 20 Arizona 29, 10) No. 17 BYU 27, 11) Cal State Northridge 19.33, 12) California 17.33, 13) Utah 15, 14) Long Beach State 12, 15) Oregon State 11, 15) Portland 11, 17) Hawai'i 8.50, and 18) UC Irvine 2.
 
No.3 Oregon won the men's team title with 89 points without top-ranked distance great Edward Cheserek competing at the meet, followed by No. 17 USC taking second place with 83 points. The rest of the field's finish and points were: 3) UCLA 70, 4) BYU 65, 5) Arizona State 53, 6) No. 7 Colorado 47, 7) California 45.50, 8) No. 19 Washington 44.50, 9) Arizona 42, 10) Washington State 41, 11) Long Beach State 30.50, 12) No. 22 Stanford 27.50, 13) UC Riverside 11, 13) Portland 11, and 15) Cal State Northridge 3.
 
"We had a number of amazing individual performances and a huge number of personal bests," WSU Director of Cross Country/Track & Field Wayne Phipps said. "Liz Harper led the way claiming the conference title in the pentathlon and potentially earning a spot at the NCAA national championships. Despite both events going on at the same, Kiana Davis earned two fourth-place finishes in the triple and high jump. Devon Bortfeld continued her breakout season with another school record in the 5,000 meters finishing seventh and doubling back the next day with another PR and a sixth-place finish in the 3,000 meters. One of my favorite stories of the meet was Molly Scharmann, who was ranked close to 30th coming in and ended up scoring and setting a huge personal best in the pole vault. The hurdlers led the way on the men's side. After advancing four hurdlers to the final, freshman Sam Brixey captured third followed closely by CJ Allen with a personal best in fourth place. Thirty minutes later, CJ comes back to score in the 400 meters with another PR, and then finishes his day with a 46-second split in the 4x400 meter relay. The men's DMR finished third with an exciting finish, as Chandler Teigen passed runners from UW and BYU in the finishing straight. Matt Swanson finishing fifth overall in the 800 meters after winning the slower section, and Robby Flores and Ja'Maun Charles both finishing fourth in the triple jump and 60-meter dash respectively were yet more examples of outstanding performances by athletes who moved up from their pre-meet rankings."
 
The NCAA Indoor Championships are March 10-11 at Birmingham, Ala.