Eagle men win team title at D1 Invitational Team Challenge, but WSU's Fredrickson and Wells come up big in Moscow...

MOSCOW, Idaho—The Eastern Washington men won the team title, while the Eagle women’s squad finished third in the Division I Invitational Team Challenge hosted by the University of Idaho Friday at the Kibbie Dome, but it was a couple of athletes from nearby Washington State University who made some of the biggest marks of the day.

Peyton Fredrickson (above/photo by Paul Merca) set a personal best of 7-0.5 (2.15m) to win the mens high jump, and get over the seven-foot barrier for the first time in his career.

Fredrickson, the senior from Vancouver’s Skyview HS, the same school that produced javelin Olympian Kara Winger and sub-4 minute miler Colby Gilbert, cleared the winning height on his first attempt, after making his first three heights of 6-6.75 (2.00m), 6-8.75 (2.05m), and 6-10.75 (2.10m).

Runner-up Matt Quist of Montana bowed out of the competition after making 6-10.75 (2.10m).

Fredrickson’s mark currently places him in a tie with eight other jumpers for #22 on the NCAA Division I performance list.

Meanwhile, Rainier Beach HS grad Emmanuel Wells of the Cougars made the eight mile trip from Pullman to Moscow looking for a fast time in the 200, and he got that, winning the race in 21.25, to place him third in the current Mountain Pacific Sports Federation performance list.

Other highlights:

—Eastern Washington’s Isaac Barville was a double winner, taking the men’s mile in a personal best 4:10.73, and the 3000 in 8:35.52;

—The Eagles’ Jeremy VanAssche won the 60 in 6.82, while teammate Keshun McGee, a former Big Sky long jump champ, won his specialty with a mark of 24-7 (7.49m)

—Washington State’s Suzy Pace completed a sweep of both high jumps, winning the women’s competition with a best of 5-8 (1.73m), while Eastern Washington’s Liz Prouty won the pole vault at 12-3.5 (3.75m);

—Chrisshnay Brown of the Cougars took the win in the women’s shot put with a toss of 48-5.25 (14.76m).

In the men’s team scoring, the Eagles racked up 130 points to win the team title, with Washington State fourth with 40, and Gonzaga fifth with 34.

Montana won the women’s title with 133 points, while Eastern Washington was third at 99, and Washington State fourth with 34 points.

Many of the Washington State athletes who competed in Moscow will return to action Saturday at their own Cougar Indoor at the Indoor Practice Facility on the WSU campus.

Complete results of the Division I Invitational Team Challenge are available here.

Saturday, Pullman resident Katie Nageotte competes in the second stop of the IAAF World Indoor Tour in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe.

She faces reigning world and Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece for the third week in a row, with the duo trading wins in Reno at the Pole Vault Summit, and at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Roxbury last week.

The meet will be streamed live over the IAAF’s YouTube channel, beginning at 10:15am, Pacific time. The women’s pole vault begins before the live stream window at 8:50 am Pacific.

The meet schedule is available here, while the start list for the women’s pole vault is available here.

NOTE: The sports information offices of Eastern Washington, Washington State, Idaho, and the IAAF contributed to this report.