Washington's Jayden White breaks his own school record in weight throw for second time this season...

SEATTLE--It seems like old news, but Washington's Jayden White (Paul Merca photo) once again broke his own school record in the 35 pound weight throw, as he won the event to highlight the host Huskies' day at the Pac-12 Invitational meet at the Dempsey Indoor Friday.

After opening the competition with a throw of 73-6.25 (22.41m), just outside his previous school record of 73-11.75 (22.55m), White got the weight past the 74 foot mark, launching the implement 74-1 (22.58m) to salt away the victory, and solidify his chances of qualifying for the NCAA championships in two weeks in Birmingham, Alabama. 

White is currently the sixth best thrower in NCAA Division I this season.

Teammate Connor Jost finished fifth with a throw of 69-5.5 (21.17m), which is short of his personal best of 70-6.5 (21.50m). Jost is currently number 21 on the NCAA descending order list.

The Huskies' Beatrice Asomaning finished second in the women's weight throw, as she threw 64-2.25 (19.56m) to finish behind Canadian Olympian Camryn Rogers of Cal, who threw 74-7 (22.73m).

Hannah Rusnak of the Huskies led through four events of the pentathlon, with two other athletes within 25 points going into the 800 meters, but could not prevail, as Skylar Sieben of Arizona and Allie Jones of Stanford jumped in front of her in the final event.

Sieben ran 2:21.51, and Jones ran 2:21.88, while Rusnak only ran 2:32.90 in essentially a winner-take-all race.

Sieben took the pentathlon title with 4072 points to Jones' 4055, and Rusnak's 3939.

The two best marks of the day came in the men's 200, as Kasaun James of USC ran a Dempsey facility record of 20.65 to win the race, and in an exciting women's distance medley relay, Oregon, with Polish steeplechase Olympian Aneta Konieczek on the 1600 anchor, held off Oregon State's Grace Fetherstonhaugh to win in 10:57.28 to Oregon State's 10:57.35.

Stanford made a late charge and almost caught both teams to finish third in 10:57.74.

The meet resumes Saturday with the first running event at 10:30 am, and the first field event at 10 am.

Day 1 results of the Pac-12 Invitational are available here.

In Bozeman, Montana, Eastern Washington's Zach Klobutcher (pole vault) and Bobby Say (long jump), finished second in their respective events as day 2 of the Big Sky Conference indoor championships concluded.

Klobutcher had a personal record today in the men's pole vault with a mark of 16-11 (5.16m). This mark is second in the Eastern Washington University record book on the all-time top-ten list.

Say needed a sixth round mark of 23-8.25 (7.22m) to move into second in the long jump and overtake Idaho's Justyn Rogers (23-6.75/7.18m).

"Very proud of our silver medalists Bobby Say in the long jump and Zach Klobutcher in the pole vault. Both of them flat out competed in really good fields. Scoring at the championships is a challenge, but to do so at the All-Conference level shows excellence," explained head men's coach Stan Kerr. 

With one day remaining in the championships, the EWU men are in fifth place with 24.5 points. The Eagles are currently 8.5 points behind Idaho and 12 ahead of Montana. On the women's side, the Eagles are in eighth place with 13 points and are six points behind Montana and six ahead of Sacramento State.

Northern Arizona leads the men's competition with 63 points, while Idaho State leads the women's team race with 44 points.

The meet resumes Saturday at noon.

Day 2 results of the Big Sky Conference championships are available here.

NOTE: The sports information office of the University of Washington, Eastern Washington University, and the Big Sky Conference contributed to this report.

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