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CSC Track athletes take 4 first place finishes

Eagle Staff

The Chadron State track and field teams won four first-place finishes at the West Texas A&M Classic this past weekend in Canyon, Texas. The men’s team finished fourth out of the 14 teams in competition with a total of 86.5 points.
On the women’s side, the Eagles placed fifth in a 16-team field with 70.5 points. Chadron State competed well despite competing without a full lineup of athletes.
Chadron State delivered strong performances in the multi-events. Chasidy Horton, junior of Fountain, Colorado won the heptathlon with 4,153 points. Gregg Peterson, junior of Thunder Ridge, Colorado finished the decathlon in a tie for first place with 5,694 points. Rounding out the Eagles competing in the multi-events was Ty Thurston, sophomore of Yuma, Colorado with a third-place finish in the decathlon.
The Eagles’ success in the multi-events was supplemented by the team’s strength in the throws. Ashlyn Hanson, senior of Seward placed second in the hammer throw with a toss of 178-5. Additionally, Hanson placed third in the javelin in 112 feet, 9 inches. In the discus, Ashton Hallsted, sophomore of Casper, Wyoming, placed third at 157 feet, 5 inches. The throw exceeded the NCAA provisional qualification mark by over 10 feet.
On the track, the Eagles were led by Alisha Heelan, senior of Oshkosh. Heelan won the 400-meter dash with a time of 59 seconds. On the men’s side, the Eagle runners were led by Marcus Ruhrer, freshman of Campe Verde, Arizona. Ruhrer finished second in the 400-meter intermediated hurdles with a time of 59.18 seconds.
Isaac Grimes, freshman of Rancho Verde, California, won the triple jump with a leap of 47 feet, 5 ¾ inches. The freshman did not compete in the long jump in Texas but made it through the weekend owning the fourth best mark in NCAA DII in the event due to his strong performance at the Spank Blasing meet earlier in the season.
The Eagles will no longer be attending the Bauer Invitational in Rapid City, South Dakota. Instead, sixteen athletes will be traveling to Colorado School of Mines in Golden to compete in the Kit Mayer Invite this weekend.