Senior Niki (Reed) McEwen tied the Oregon pole vault record, and senior Santiago Lorenzo returned from a quad muscle injury as the Oregon track and field teams returned to action on Saturday.
Reed, who redshirted during last season’s outdoor campaign, cleared a height of 14-1 1/4 at the USA Track and Field Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nev. The mark ties current teammate Becky Holliday’s record, achieved during the 2002 outdoor season. Reed’s jump was good for first in the event, just ahead of Arkansas’ April Steiner.
The mark was an NCAA automatic mark for Reed.
Junior Kirsten Riley equaled the NCAA provisional mark (12-9 1/2) at the meet, while sophomore Hannah Moore finished at a height of 11-7 3/4. Holliday cleared 12-5 1/2 but failed to clear any other heights.
Lorenzo finished the afternoon at the Husky Preview in Seattle in fourth place in the 60 hurdles with a time of 8.42. He also took fifth in the pole vault (15-7).
Lorenzo’s teammate, freshman Eric Mitchum, claimed first in the 60 hurdles (8.02) and freshman Teddy Davis’ height of 7-0 1/4 in the high jump was also good for first. Senior James March ended the men’s trifecta of wins with the top spot in the shot put (52-0).
Senior Jordan Sauvage was the only Duck woman to claim first
at the Husky Preview, doing so with a mark of 55-10 1/2 in the weight throw.
— Hank Hager
