Mountaineers set up for the second day

Colorado Springs, Colo. The men of West Colorado sit in third place on Friday after the opening day of the men's and women's lighting athletics championship of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference on Friday and the women in seventh place on Friday. And each of the mountaineering programs is aimed at a larger second day in the last meeting of the two -day championships on Saturday.

The men will lead with the championship finals of the 60-meter hurdles, in which James Duncan will enter the starting blocks in his preliminary heat after the time of 8.23 ​​seconds on Friday. He will even hunt after the school record of 7.90 seconds.

The next event remains directly in the Mountain Lion Field House on the campus of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, while the mountaineer Myia Dantzler will bring her four-time temporal time into the finale of the 60-meter water. Dantzler broke the school record at Western's most recent home meeting and broke him again on Friday with a blasty time of 7.49 seconds.

Kelia Portis also rose from the Prelims to the final on Saturday on Friday and ran in the 400 women with a time of 58.42 in preparations for No. 6.

The mountaineering men earned their biggest point in the long jump final on Friday. Four western jumpers passed from Cullen McReynolds with a third place of 7.34 meters (24 feet-0.75 inches). Scott Grable (7.02 / 23-0.75), Braxton Walk (6.85 / 22-) and Taryn Moore (6.85 / 22-5.5) were in sixth, seventh and eighth place.

Western took off its first point of the championship meeting at the first event on Friday, the men's weight throw. Logan Butterfield deserves and eighth place for mountaineers with a best throw of 17.59 m (57-8.5).

Her next points came from Max Kittsteiner in the pole vault. On his third attempt, he cleared his opening height and looted his last height of 4.77 m (15-1.75) on his third attempt to achieve a seventh place.

The women deserved their first points of the meeting late Friday. The quartet by Emma Kjellsen, Portis, Lauren Willson and Allison Beasley came together for a third place in the women's distance medley and combined a preliminary NCAA time of 11 minutes, 56.96 seconds.

The men also achieved a third place in their DMR race. Esteban Deniz, Stone, Caden Peters and John Houdeshell drove a time of 10: 08.05, which was also a preliminary NCAA time.

The events on Saturday are planned for a start at 10:30 a.m. for the field events and a start from 12 noon for the running events.