Huskies serve up a "Double Hundy" in sweeping Cougars in The Dual...
A “Hundy Burger” was defined as scoring 100 or more points in The Dual meet.
While Maurica and Andy Powell are now at the helm of the Washington program, the couple brought their take on the Hundy Burger as both Husky squads recorded the first double 100 score in Husky history, with the men winning by a score of 103-60, and the women taking the victory 108-55.
In the forty years that both men’s and women’s teams have competed in one of the country’s oldest dual meets, Washington State scored a double-hundred sweep of the Huskies in 2010 (109-55 men, and 114-49 women).
The Huskies came up one point short of scoring a double-hundred victory in the 2015 edition of The Dual, winning 113-50 in the men’s competition, and 99-64 in the women’s meet.
Washington earned 27 event wins to Washington State’s 11 wins, including all four relay races.
The Dawgs had eight sweeps on a blustery day, coming in the women's 400-meters, women's 5,000-meters, women's 100-meter hurdles, women's 400-meter hurdles, women's javelin, men's 5,000-meters, men's shot put and men's discus.
On the women’s side, multi-event specialist Hannah Rusnak won the 100 hurdles in 13.75, and was second in the long jump at 19-2.75 (5.86m).
Other notable marks for Washington included senior Anna Maxwell’s (above/photo by Paul Merca) win in the 1500 (4:31.42); Darhian Mills’ win in the 400 hurdles (59.06); Emily Hamlin in the steeplechase at 10:23.89; and Onyie Chibuogwu in the hammer at 191-8 (58.41m).
While the marks overall were average at best, two of the better men’s marks on the track were in the 3000 steeplechase and the 400 hurdles.
Julius Diehr of Washington broke 9 minutes in the steeplechase for the second meet in a row, as he clocked 8:59.36, just ahead of Kyler Little’9:06.43.
On the field, the men’s pole vault, which was contested at the Dempsey, was won by the Huskies’ Chase Smith with a leap of 17-8.5 (5.40m).
While she spoke specifically about the women’s team, Husky director of track & field Maurica Powell’s post meet statement could have easily applied to both teams.
"I'm super pleased really with every event group across the board," she said. "I think the kids beat the form chart pretty much everywhere. I thought we had kids chipping in everywhere and the conditions made the day more about beating the person in front of you rather than looking at the clock, so we formulated race strategies that were purely about beating Washington State athletes and that was it."
While victories were few and far between on the day for the visiting Cougars, Pac-12 Conference leader Brock Eager dominated the hammer, winning at 223-1 (68.01m). NCAA indoor qualifiers Paul Ryan and Emmanuel Wells won the 1500 and the 100 respectively in 3:50.37, and 10.41.
Sam Brixey led a Cougar sweep of the 110 hurdles, winning in 14.14.
On the women’s side, senior Chrisshnay Brown took the shot put event with a mark of 47-feet 6 1/2 inches (14.49m).
Regyn Gaffney ran away in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.88 seconds, and Charisma Taylor took home first place overall in the triple jump at 39-feet 4 1/2 inches. Anna Rodgers rounded out the wins for the WSU women in the long jump with a mark of 19-feet 6-inches (5.94m).
The Cougs took both women’s vertical jumps contested at the Dempsey, with Suzy Pace winning the high jump at 5-3.75 (1.62m), and Pac-12 scorer Molly Scharmann winning the pole vault at 13-1.75 (4.01m), as two time defending NCAA outdoor champ Olivia Gruver opted not to compete.
With their wins, the men's all-time dual meet score is now 59-40-1 in favor of Washington State, while the Huskies hold a 22-18 lead all-time in the women's competition. Both Husky squads earned 10 points for their school in the overall Boeing Apple Cup series involving the two schools.
Complete results of The Dual are available here.
NOTE: The University of Washington and Washington State University sports information offices contributed to this report.
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