LA GRANDE, OR – LC State earned national standards, and a school record was broken on the first day of the EOU Last Chance meet on Friday. Trenton Johnson bettered his LC State record mark in the triple jump, Kobe Wessels ran one of the best times in the NAIA in the 1,000m and the women’s 4x800m relay ran its best national-qualifying time of the season.
Wessels ran a national-qualifying time, after the time is converted on the shorter track, with one of the top-five times in the NAIA this season. His raw time of 2:29.88 ranks third in the LC State record book and the converted time earned the Lewiston native a spot at the national meet.
Johnson leapt a distance of 14.57m in the triple jump to set the facility record at Eastern Oregon. The mark ranks in the top 20 of the NAIA and earned the senior a win in the event. Bryan Kinene finished third with the second-best mark in program history (14.13m) and Collin Wimer was fifth (12.84m).
The women’s 4x800m relay team of Nuala Rollins, Damaris Kibiwot, Grace Tiegs and Camille Ussher bettered its national-qualifying time after conversion. The group finished third with a time of 9:38.25. Converted times will be available at the conclusion of the meet on Saturday.
Orofino native Ruby Kessinger led the Warrior women in the weight throw with a personal-best that put her in the record book. She finished fifth in the event with a throw of 14.91m, which ranks fifth all-time at LC State. Grace Osborne finished seventh (13.77m), Faith Wersland was ninth (13.60m), Haylee Appleford was 12th (12.61m), Hope Zollman finished 15th (12.06m) and Shayvon Williams placed 17th (10.81m).
Reid Thomas was the top LC State finisher in the men’s weight throw where he placed fifth (15.73m). Alexzander Lambson threw the fifth-best weight throw ever by a Warrior to place sixth (14.69m), Zane Hearne was 19th (11.59m), Ian Roeber placed 22nd (11.22m) and Micah Fox was (10.25m).
