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Hawkins Captures Long Jump Title To Lead Boxers On Day 1 Of NWC Track Championships

By Blake Timm '98, Sports Information Director

Day 1 Results

NEWBERG, Ore. – Each of the last two years, Budweiser Hawkins (Sr., Las Vegas, Nev.) saw his chance at the Northwest Conference men's long jump title lost on the final jump of the competition.
 
Not this year.  This time Hawkins prevailed on his last jump over the competition to win the long elusive title, leading Pacific's efforts on the first day of the Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships, held at Stoffer Family Stadium.
 
Hawkins finished with a best effort of 23 feet, 3.25 inches to win his first NWC championship.  In the process, Hawkins also leaped up the Pacific all-time list is the event from fifth to third with the best performance in the event by a Pacific athlete since 1976.
 
The performance led a first day of the conference meet that saw two other Pacific athletes score in the finals of their respective events and six notch spots in Saturday's running event finals.  Hawkins himself qualified for the finals in the men's 100 meters, finishing third in the first heat with a time of 11.30 seconds.  He is also entered in the men's high jump and triple jump.
 
Kaleb Bass (So., Slate Creek, Idaho.) scored five points for the Pacific men in the steeplechase with an impressive personal best.  His fourth place time of 9:46.12 was a 13-second season best and moved him into No. 5 on the Pacific all-time list.  Teammate Kyle Eisenbeis (Fr., Bothell, Wash.) just missed scoring, placing 10th with a season best of 10:04.95 that is seventh best in school history.
 
Dianna Church (Fr., Bothell, Wash.) was the lone point scorer on the first day for the Pacific women, placing sixth in the shot put with a season best of 36 feet, 8.25 inches.
 
Kris Sapp (So., Sacramento, Calif.) secured spots in Saturday's finals in both sprints.  He won his heat in the 100 meters with a time of 11.13 seconds and is the No. 4 qualifier in the 200 meters after running 22.48 seconds.  Trey Oshiro-Atabay (Sr., Aiea, Hawaii) qualified in the 400 meters with a time of 51.30 seconds and Daniel Wagner (Sr., Kailua, Hawaii) won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, qualifying for the final with a time of 15.34 seconds. 
 
Mikaela Bernards (Fr., Hillsboro, Ore.) qualified for the finals in the women's 100 meters.  Her time of 15.94 seconds was a season best and moved her into No. 3 on the Pacific all-time list.
 
In other event finals, Steve Allen (So., Svenson, Ore.) added a 10th place finish in the men's 10,000 meters with a time of 33:48.25.  Nathan Phillips (So., Myrtle Creek, Ore.) placed ninth in the men's hammer with a throw of 128 feet, 3 inches, and Marshall Taunton (Fr., Hillsboro, Ore.) placed 10th in the pole vault with his effort of 13 feet, 0.75 inches.

Pacific enters the second day of the meet in sixth place in the men's team competition with 16 points.  The Pacific women stand eighth with two points.
 
The final day of competition at the conference meet will commence at 10:30 a.m. with finals in the women's javelin, men's discus, women's triple, women's pole vault and the men's high jump.  Running events will begin at noon.
 
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