Bruno Comin Pescador fishes out second 6000 point heptathlon score in UW history...
SEATTLE--Washington's Bruno Comin Pescador went on a two day, seven-event fishing adventure for a trip to the NCAA championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
When he crossed the finish line after the 1000 meter run, the Spanish freshman whose last name translates into English as the "Fisherman", caught a spot in the national championship meet hook, line, and sinker, scoring 6061 points to win the heptathlon at the Ken Shannon Last Chance Invitational meet at the Dempsey Indoor on the campus of the University of Washington.
Comin Pescador, whose score from the Frank Sevigne Invitational on February 2-3 of 5745 points was the number 16 mark in NCAA Division I going into the final weekend of qualifying, knew that his score wasn't good enough to land a spot at nationals.
After winning the first four events Friday, he entered Saturday with a first day total of 3320 points.
The Spaniard proceeded to continue where he left off, winning the 60 hurdles in 8.11, tied for the win in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-0.75 (4.90m), then put an exclamation point on his victory in winning the 1000 meters in 2:37.02 to finish with a final score of 6061 points.
Comin Pescador vaulted to the number four spot in the NCAA descending order list with his victory, and became the second Husky to exceed 6000 points in a heptathlon, falling short of Jeremy Taiwo's school record by 95 points. He set personal bests in all but the shot put.
Jami Schlueter of the Huskies was second with 5618 points, the third best in school history, while Washington State's Lee Walburn was fifth with 5298 points.
Other highlights:
--Washington's Kaia Tupu-South set a school record in the women's shot put, throwing 56-1.25 (17.10m) to break the two-week old mark set by teammate Makayla Kelby of 55-10.5 (17.03m). Kelby ended up fifth overall at 54-10.25 (16.72m), as Jaida Ross of Oregon won at 59-9.75 (18.23m).
--Portland's All-America Laura Pellicoro held off a late charge by the Huskies' Anna Gibson to win the mile in 4:32.91 to 4:33.41.
--Washington State's Louis Hinchliffe broke his own freshman record twice in the 60 meter dash, finishing his day tied for the second-fastest 60m time (6.60) in WSU history set by Augustin Olobia in 1991. The freshman lowered the program record he owned going into the day with a 6.69 prelims time before narrowly missing the finals win by just .01 with a 6.60 time that surpassed the previous meet record by .06.
--Western Washington University junior Drew Weber virtually locked up a trip to Virginia for the NCAA Division II nationals, running 1:49.86 behind four Pac-12 runners in a race won by Stanford's John Lester in a meet record 1:46.93.
Weber broke the school record of 1:50.07 set last season by Mac Franks with a time of 1:49.86. He also became the fourth runner in GNAC history to break 1:50.
In Moscow, Idaho, the Eastern Washington men's team finished in fourth place, while the women's squad was seventh as the Big Sky Conference indoor championships concluded at the Kibbie Dome, hosted by the University of Idaho.
The Eagle men scored 70 points, while the women scored 34 points. Northern Arizona swept both team titles, scoring 182.5 in the men's competition to 113 for runner up Idaho, while the women garnered 200.5 points to second place Montana State's 125 points.
The highlight of the day for the Eagles was a victory by pole vaulter Zach Klobutcher, who won a dramatic three-way jump off against teammate Brayden Freitag and Montana State's Colby Wilson.
After all three had identical clean sheets through 16-6.75 (5.05m), no one made the next height of 16-10.75 (5.15m). With a conference championship on the line, a jump off was necessitated, with Klobutcher the only one of the three to clear 16-10.75 with each given one shot at the height.
Lucas Couron finished seventh with a clearance of 15-5 (4.70m) to give the Eagles 19 points in the event.
Bobby Say won the men's triple jump, bounding 51-8.25 (15.75m).
Carissa Stovall was second in the women's shot put with a toss of 48-6 (14.78m).
At the Western Athletic Conference championship meet at The Podium in Spokane, a promising start to the meet on Friday by Seattle University in winning the men's distance medley relay coupled with a fourth place finish in the women's DMR ended with a loud thud, as the Redhawks only scored one point in an individual event in the whole meet.
Bryana Rogers of the Redhawks finished eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 39-0.25 (11.89m) as Ella Antilla of Abilene Christian won with a jump of 43-7 (13.28m).
The closest the men came to scoring was in the 4 x 400, as the Redhawks finished ninth in 3:19.89.
SeattleU scored 10 points in the men's competition to finish ninth in the ten team field. Grand Canyon University won with 139.5 points. The women fared no better, finishing with a final score of 6 points and an 11th place finish in the 12-team field. Stephen F. Austin won the women's crown with 99.5 points.
NOTE: The sports information office of the University of Washington, Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, and Seattle University contributed to this report.
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