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Jan. 22, 2005

Complete Results

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University athletes had a big part in the four track and two field records that were broken at the Third Annual WSU Open Indoor Track & Field Meet Saturday at the Indoor Track Facility on the WSU campus.

On the oval, Cougar women rewrote the both the 800m and mile meet records. Freshman Haley Paul (2:14.40), senior Molly Bull (PR 2:15.81) and redshirt freshman Karen DeMartini (2:16.63) finished one-two-three in the 800m run, all surpassing Ellannee Richardson's 2004 record of 2:16.92. In the one mile run, freshman Collier Lawrence won in a time of 5:12.48 but junior Hailey Young (5:26.07), and Central Washington's Lindy Mullen (5:27.28) and Sarah Benson (5:37.34) all passed WSU's Angelita Green's 2004 time of 5:38.36.

WSU's Justin Ireland won the men's 800m in a personal record time of 1:53.21, removing EWU's Josh Arnold's 2004 time of 1:54.78. In the 3000m race, Cougar sophomores Andrew Jones (8:32.04), Chris Concha (8:33.02) and Chris Williams finished one-two-three with Jones and Concha rewriting Spokane Community College's Mark Currell's 2004 time of 8:47.84.

Idaho's Tassie Souhrada won the women's high jump on fewer misses over WSU's Diana Pickler, both with a meet record clearance of 5-feet, 8 inches (1.73m), surpassing Whitney Evans' 2003 mark of 5-7 (1.70m).

Ebbie Metzinger, competing unattached, soared to 13-7 1/4 (4.15m) to win the women's pole vault, bettering Tamara Diles' 2004 record of 13-1 1/2 (4.00m). Diles was in Reno competing at the National Pole Vault Summit.

WSU men seeing the winners' circle included James McSwain in the 60m dash (6.78 after a prelim PR time of 6.77), John Cassleman in the 400m (50.19), Bob Frey in the 60m hurdles (PR 8.43), Kyle Eaton in the high jump (6-8 3/4 / 2.05m), and Ryan Thomas in the pole vault (13-11 1/4 / 4.25m).

Next weekend Washington State hosts the Cougar Indoor meet featuring teams from Utah State, California, and Idaho.