SPOKANE, Wash. – Andrew Boyd stole the show for the Saints at the GNAC Indoor Championships, taking home third overall in the 60m hurdles, and fifth in the heptathlon.
COMPLETE RESULTS
Boyd began the meet by taking second in the 60m hurdles prelims with a time of 8.55 seconds, before dropping to 8.52 in the finals. Boyd took home the podium finish to score six points for the Saints.
However, the meet only just began for Boyd as the sophomore also competed in the heptathlon. Boyd took home first place in both the shot put (39-ft, 3.75-in) and 60m hurdles (8.61 seconds) inside the heptathlon. Overall, Boyd finished fifth in the multi-event with a total of 4289 points.
Cassidy Walchak-Sloan earned a second-place finish in the one mile with a time of 5:04.7 minutes; the highest finish of any Saint in an event. She nearly collected another podium finish in the 800m with a time 2:16.36. Walchalk-Sloan took first in the 800m prelims with a blazing time of 2:15.85.
Sara Sabra placed sixth in the 5000m race with a time 18:59.08, along with an 11th place finish in the 3000m at 10:52.94. Finishing right behind Sabra in the 3000m was
Naomi Hartley, just two seconds behind her teammate.
Saint Martin's took sixth and eighth in the women's pole vault, led by the efforts of
Phoebe Young at 11-ft, 1-in, and
Claire Skaggs at 10-ft, 7-in.
In the men's field,
Micah Au-Haupu took home seventh in the shot put, finishing with a best mark of 46-ft, 6-in, coming on his sixth and final throw.
Other notable finishes for the Saints include
Andrew Schulz in the long jump taking ninth overall with a mark of 21-ft, and
Lance Slichko in the 5000m, taking 10th with a time of 15:39. In the men's 3000m,
Kainalu Pagente (8:43.24), Slichko (8:45.83), and
Isaac Cortes (8:48.13) placed 12th, 13th, and 15th respectively.
As a team, Saint Martin's placed eighth overall in the women's standings with 30 points, narrowly missing Northwest Nazarene's 31. For the men, the Saints placed ninth with 18 points.
Simon Fraser took home the women's title with 124 total points, and Western Washington ran away with the men's title at 171 points.
