Montana
Idaho
Griz have breakout meet at Idaho Open
2/5/2012 12:00:00 AM | Men's Indoor Track, Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Feb. 5, 2012
The Montana track and field teams had eight individual-event victories and added three new Big Sky Conference qualifiers Saturday at the Idaho Indoor Open at Moscow, Idaho. The meet was the Grizzlies' most successful of the indoor season and an important breakthrough with the conference meet three weeks away.
Seven of those event victories came from the Montana women's team, which won seven of the day's 12 individual events.
Junior Kourtney Danreuther was a two-event winner in the 200 and 400 meters and had the day's most impressive showing.
Running in the quarter mile's fastest heat against three Idaho sprinters, Danreuther, the Big Sky leader in the event, posted a season-best time of 55.27 in a heat that had all four athletes coming through with sub-57s.
Danreuther came back less than two hours later and won the 200 meters over a field of 55 athletes. Danreuther's time of 25.21 in her first 200 of the season was a Big Sky qualifier.
Junior Lindsey Hall was also a double-event winner, taking the 60-meter hurdles and long jump. She also finished third in the high jump.
Hall's time of 8.67 won the hurdles by nearly three-tenths of a second, and she cracked the 19-foot mark in the long jump, going 19-0.5.
After struggling in the high jump the last three meets with heights closer to five feet than her career best of 5-8.75, Hall went 5-6 Saturday. The event will be a critical one for Hall in February as she attempts to post a national-qualifying score in the pentathlon.
Also claiming event victories Saturday were junior Anika Green in the 60 meters (7.94), freshman Ani Haas in the 800 meters (2:20.27) and redshirt freshman Keli Dennehy in the 3,000 meters.
Dennehy's time of 10:08.01 was a Big Sky-qualifying effort and gives her a third entry to the Big Sky meet. Dennehy qualified in the mile Friday at the Vandal Indoor and the 5,000 meters last weekend at Washington State.
In other top-five performances for the women, junior Melissa Jenkins and Green finished third (25.71) and fourth (25.74) in the 200 meters, freshman Allie Parks was third in the 3,000 meters (10:28.13), freshman Madison Worst took fifth in the 60 meters (8.10), and freshman Hannah Swift finished fifth in the pole vault (11-11.75).
The men's team had one Big Sky Conference qualifier and one event winner.
Freshman Dylan Hambright went sub-49 seconds in the 400 meters for the first time this season with an effort of 48.73 to race past the Big Sky standard of 49.20. His time was second overall in a field of 63 to Washington State's Joe Abbott, who ran a 48.66 in a different heat.
Freshman Lee Hardt was the men's sole event winner. He won the high jump at a height of 6-8, his fourth time winning the event in five meets this winter.
Sophomores Jordan Collison and Kaleb Horlick finished with runner-up efforts in the 3,000 meters and pole vault with marks of 8:37.47 and 15-3.
Senior Lynn Reynolds placed third in the 3,000 meters (8:43.22), senior Richard Brumbaugh was fifth in the shot put (51-0.75), sophomore Drew Owens fifth in the 400 meters (49.76) and Hambright fifth in the 200 meters (22.59).
Montana will compete at Montana State next Friday, then return to Bozeman on the 17th for a last-chance meet before traveling to Flagstaff, Ariz., for the Big Sky Conference championships Feb. 24-25.
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