Sapp, Teves Lead Boxers In Final NWC Meet Tuneup
Meet ResultsPORTLAND, Ore. – Kris Sapp (Fr., Sacramento, Calif.) and Michael Teves (Fr., Makawao, Hawaii) both picked up individual event victories Saturday, leading the Pacific track and field teams in their last tune-up prior to next week's Northwest Conference Championships at the Lewis & Clark Open, held at Eldon Fix Track.
Sapp won his signature event, the men's 100 meters, establishing a season best time with 11.11 seconds. He will enter the NWC Championships with the ninth best time in the league.
Teves, meanwhile, prevailed through blustery conditions to win the men's pole vault with a clearance of 13 feet, 10.75 inches. While Teves finished six inches ahead of the second place competitor,
Aaron Koford (Sr., Wilsonville, Ore.) placed third in the event and qualified for the NWC Championships with his clearance of 12 feet, 10.75 inches.
Jesse Bethke (Sr., Cave Junction, Ore.) and Travis George (Sr., Grants Pass, Ore.) led a quartet of Pacific throwers with top-three finishes. Bethke, the newly minted Pacific record holder in the men's discus, placed second in the event with a throw of 146 feet, 11 inches. George placed second in the men's hammer with a throw of 162 feet, 11 inches.
Taylor Hickson (Jr., Red Bluff, Calif.) took third in the men's javelin with a toss of 150 feet, 9 inches, while Mackenzie Huddleston (So., Milwaukie, Ore.) was third in the women's javelin with a throw of 115 feet, 5 inches.
Britta LaVoie (So., Spokane, Wash.) just missed setting a school record in the pole vault, placing third in the event with her clearance of 11 feet, 1 inch. The mark, a one-foot improvement, moves LaVoie into a tie for fourth place in the NWC season best list. Teammate Emily Geddes (Fr., Bend, Ore.) placed fourth, posting a two-inch season best at 9 feet, 7.25 inches, to move into sole possession of No. 3 on Pacific's all-time list.
Kelli Aken-Pagdilao (Sr., Makawao, Hawaii) rounded out Pacific's top finishers, placing fourth in the women's 100 meters in a time of 13.16 seconds.
Also earning spots on Pacific's top-10 lists were Kelsey Lee (Fr., So., Monroe, Wash.), who cracked the No. 10 spot on the Pacific all-time list in the women's 400 meters, with her time of 1:02.28. Sara Davidson (So., St. Paul, Ore.), improved to No. 6 in the women's hammer with her mark of 112 feet, 8 inches, and Katie Rock (So., Seattle, Wash.) earned the No. 8 spot with her mark of 109 feet, 1 inch.
McKenna Davidson (So., Kailua-Kona, Hawaii) also improved her mark in the women's triple jump, tying for the No. 6 spot with her leap of 32 feet.
Despite resting a number of their top athletes, the Pacific men finished fifth in the team competition with 66 points. The Pacific women placed seventh with a score of 42 points.
The focus of the Boxers now turns to the NWC Championship, which will take place on Friday and Saturday at the University of Puget Sound.
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