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Pixler, Hardie Top Performers in GNAC Indoor Track & Field Championships


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Jessica Pixler won the women's 800 and mile each for the third time in four years to lead Seattle Pacific to its seventh straight women's team title at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor track-and-field championship meet Saturday at Jackson's Track in Nampa. (HTML / PDF)

Pixler, who set meet records in both events, was selected the Outstanding Female Performer. The men's award went to Western Oregon's Matson Hardie who set a meet and GNAC record in winning the long jump and also was the meet's leading scorer with 23 1/2 points.

Seattle Pacific won its seventh straight women's team title, while Western Oregon won its third straight men's title and its fourth overall.

Western Washington finished second in both divisions. The Falcon women outscored the Vikings 179 1/2 to 159 1/2. WWU's score was the highest ever for the runner up in the meet.

Western Washington finished just 9 1/2 points back of the Wolves in the men's scoring (171 to 161 1/2). The Vikings point total was the second highest for a runner up. WWU had 166 points in 2007 when CWU edged their rivals for the team title by 5 1/2 points.

Pixler first won the mile in a time of 4:40.39 breaking the record of 4:47.37 set last year by Ashley Puga of Northwest Nazarene. She then came back to win the 800 in a time of 2:08.28, breaking Puga's 2009 record of 2:09.86.

Pixler's records were two of 15 that were set. Two of the records are also all-time GNAC marks.

Hardie, who also finished second in the triple jump and tied for third in the high jump, won the men's long jump with a meet and conference record of 23-8. Western Washington's Ellie Siler, who won the women's 400 for the second year in a row in a time of 56.93, won the 200 in a meet and GNAC record time of 25.03.

In the men's mile, Anthony Tomsich of Western Washington set a meet record with a time of 4:14.08. WWU's Jordan Welling won the 5,000 in a meet record time of 14:51.53 winning the event for the second time. He also finished first in 2008.

Matt Kaino of Western Oregon set a meet record in the men's 400 with a time of 49.17.

Both meet records fell in the 60 as Latasha Essien won the women's event for the fourth year in a row in a meet record time of 7.67. Andrew Wright of Central Washington set a meet record in the men's 60 in a time of 6.89.

Essien is the first athlete in the meet history to win the same event four times in a row and the second to win the same event four times joining Krissy Tandle of Central Washington who won the shot put between 2005 and 2007 and again in 2009.

Sarah Porter of Western Washington set a meet record in winning the women's 5000 in a time of 16:47.07 and Ashley Potter of Western Oregon won the women's triple jump with a meet record leap of 38-10 1/2.

Meet records were also broken in all four relays. Western Washington won the women's 4x400 relay in time of 3:55.21 and the men's distance medley relay in a time of 10:18.80.

Western Oregon won the men's 4x400 with a time of 3:19.36. In the women's distance medley, Seattle Pacific finished first in a time of 11:36.32.

In other events, Seattle Pacific's Brittany Aanstad won the women's high jump with a leap of 5-5 1/4 leading a 1-2-3 Falcon sweep.

Michelle Howe of Western Washington won the 60 hurdles for the third year in a row with a time of 9.02, while Andy Loscutoff of Western Oregon won the men's event in a time of 8.34.

SPU's Melissa Peaslee won her second title in the pole vault with a GNAC season-best vault of 12-0. She was also the 2008 champion. Ryan Brown of Western Washington, the nation's leader in the event, won his third straight men's title with a vault of 16-1 1/4.

Tyler Fischer and Rendel Jones, both of Central Washington won their second consecutive titles in the men's weight throw (58-3) and triple jump, respectively (47-7 1/4). The Wildcats also got wins from Kincaid Nichols in the 200 (22.22) and Brennan Boyes in the high jump (6-4 3/4).

Fischer finished second in the shot put as Jason Slowey of Western Oregon finished first with a put of 51-3 3/4.

In all CWU had five individual wins in the men's meet, the most for any school. Western Oregon had five total wins, four in individual events, while Western Washington won three individual events and a relay.

Nathan Seely of Seattle Pacific won the 800 in a GNAC season-best time of 1:54.86 to account for SPU's lone victory in the men's meet.

Western Washington and Seattle Pacific each had six wins in the women's meet, five in individual events and one each in relays.

Emily Warman won the long jump with a leap of 18-3 3/4 to account for one of Western Washington's victories. Warman, the defending national triple jump champion, finished second in that event with a leap of 38-4.

Joy Warrington of Northwest Nazarene won the women's shot with a put of 45-9 1/4 and also won the weight throw with a toss of 49-10 1/2 to account for NNU's only two victories in the meet.