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HCC Sports Information
Sunday, February 24, 2008
MANHATTAN – Hutchinson Community College’s 4x800-meter relay became the latest
Blue Dragon qualifier for nationals on Sunday at the 2008 Region VI Indoor
Track and Field Championships at Ahearn Fieldhouse in Manhattan.
The relay team of A.J. Isham, Chase Thompson,
Justin Riggs and Jacob Yates ran a season-best and fifth-place time of 8
minutes, 5.35 seconds, which qualifies the team for the NJCAA Indoor
National Championships next month in Charleston, Ill.
HCC’s 4x800 relay team becomes the 12th entry
for nationals.
The Blue Dragons finished sixth overall with
76 points. Barton County captured the men’s team championship with 139
points.
Hutchinson had one individual regional
champion in All-America sprinter Teddy Poole. He captured the 60 meters in
his second-best time of the season at 6.82 seconds, winning by .002 seconds
over Neosho County’s Randy Johnson.
Poole was fourth in the 200 meters at 21.92
seconds, again his second-best performance of the season in that event.
Sophomore multi-event athlete Jordan Teeter
is primed to quality for nationals. He scored 2,977 points in the Region VI
pentathlon, which was fourth. That score places Teeter 10th nationally. The
Top 16 performances qualify for nationals.
In other Blue Dragon performances on Sunday:
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shot putters finished 3-4-5 at Region VI. Freshman Taz Hawthorne placed
third at 47-feet, 7.75 inches. Sophomore Gavin Wuthrich had a season-best
45-9.25 to finish fourth. Sophomore Shawn Britton had his top mark of 45-9
to capture fifth in the event.
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Freshman Johnnie Poole placed fourth in the long jump at 21-10, his
second-best performance of the season.
l Chase
Thompson was fifth in the 1-mile run with a personal- and team-best time of
4:30.36.
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Freshman Ben Kruse tied his personal best in the pole vault, finishing fifth
with a height of 13 feet, 6.25 inches.
l HCC’s
4x400 meter relay team had a season-best time of 3:26.24 and finished fifth.
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Freshman Chris Copeland placed sixth in the 400 meters with a time of 50.50,
his top performance in 2008.
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Freshman Melton Diggs turned in a season-best and team-best performance in
the 60-meter hurdles, placing seventh in 9.05 seconds.
The Blue Dragons will compete in a
last-chance meet on Friday in Arkansas City before heading to nationals on
March 6-8.
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