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Complete SOU Raider Open results

ASHLAND
– Five years away from Raider Stadium didn't make the Southern Oregon University track and field team any less comfortable in its refurbished digs at Saturday's SOU Raider Open.

The Raiders dominated the meet with a triumphant return home that included a couple school records, a handful of NAIA Championship qualifying times and more than enough highlights to fill the afternoon.

Those highlights went as follows:

- Amelia Maguin (Fernley, Nev./Fernley) continued to diversify her resume with another SOU record and an automatic NAIA qualifying mark in a fourth event, this time in the 200 meters. She came in at 24.60 seconds, erasing the previous Raider mark of 24.97 that Tiwana Merritt established in 2001 and getting in under the NAIA 'A' benchmark of 24.80. Margot Hamman (Moorpark, Calif./Moorpark) was second in the same race at 26.55 seconds to qualify for the Cascade Conference Championships after winning the 12-person 100-meter dash in 12.84.

Maguin also won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.88 and was a part of two victorious relay teams – the 4x100, which won in 49.97 and also consisted of Anna Reitman (Winston, Ore./Douglas), Lauren McGowne (Coos Bay, Ore./Marshfield) and Hamman; and the 4x800 team that included Jessie Rozario (Rocklin, Calif./Del Oro), Aspen Abbott (Gardnerville, Nev./Douglas) and Reitman, and beat the school record by 30 seconds with a time of 9:22.16 that put it at No. 6 on the NAIA performance list and qualified as an 'A' standard.

- Markus Sanders (Modesto, Calif./Carthage) won the hammer (193 feet 3 inches) and the discus (176-9), missing school records by less than two feet in both disciplines and improving 'A' marks he had already established. He shot to Nos. 2 and 3 on those respective NAIA performance lists, upping his previous hammer mark by over 14 feet.

Elsewhere in the field, Danny Parks (Eugene, Ore.) won the shot put with a mark of 45-8 ½, the fourth-best in the conference, and Anthony Neal (Central Point, Ore./Crater) won the 15-person long jump at 22-0 ¼ for a personal-best and the No. 5 mark in the CCC.

- In its only try of the season, the Raider men's 4x800 team of Henry Hall (Corvallis, Ore./Corvallis), Zach Boyd-Helm (West Linn, Ore./West Linn), Matt Williams (La Crescenta, Calif./La Crescenta) and Dylan Alexander (Encino, Calif./Birmingham) qualified automatically for the NAIA Championships with a winning time of 7:43.74 – the second-fastest in school history and the fourth-fastest in the NAIA.

Boyd-Helm and Kevin Jorgensen (Yreka, Calif./Yreka) also went 1-2 in the 800 meters. At 1:50.92, Boyd-Helm improved his 'A' mark to the No. 3 on the NAIA performance list, and at 1:52.52 Jorgensen achieved a 'B' provisional mark and the 10th-best in the NAIA. Boyd-Helm was seven-tenths of a second off the school record.

- Devan Barkley (Stockton, Calif./Lincoln) was second in the 400 meter hurdles, but his personal-best time of 54.46 seconds gave him a 'B' qualifying standard by four-hundredths of a second.

- In women's distance races, Jessie Rozario (Rocklin, Calif./Del Oro) was first of 15 in the 1,500 meters at 4:39.85. She already had an 'A' and the school record in the event . Abbott just missed the 800 school record again, placing second of 10 in the women's 800 at 2:17.28, and Jessa Perkinson (Roseburg, Ore./Roseburg) was second of 18 in the 5K at 18:10.16, the fifth-fastest time in the CCC.

- Breanna Buckles (Canby, Ore./Canby) notched a couple season-bests, the first to win the hammer (141-4) and the second to take second in the discus (122-10 ½).

- Alexander won the 17-person men's 5K in 3:54.29. He already had a 'B' in the event and missed the 'A' standard by two-tenths of a second.

- Connor Cushman (West Linn, Ore./West Linn) won the 22-person men's 5K in 15:16.41 for a PR, and Caleb Diaz (Medford, Ore./North Medford) was fourth with his own PR of 15:21.46. Eli Stillman (Paradise, Calif./Paradise) set a new personal mark in the 3,000-meter steeplechase of 10:08.79, placing second in the race and moving up to No. 7 in the CCC.

- In the men's 200 meters, Gabe Derilo (Sacramento, Calif./El Dorado) was second (22.15) and JJ Latu (Hawthorne, Calif./Ladybird Johnson) was third (22.18). They took over the top two spots on the conference list. Latu and Saparto both got in at 10.87 in the 100 to tie for third.

"Today was a great opportunity for our team to compete in front of our home crowd and in great weather," SOU head coach Grier Gatlin said. "Amelia was great again and continues to improve throughout the year, and so were Markus Sanders (Modesto, Calif./Carthage) and Zach Boyd-Helm (West Linn, Ore./West Linn).

"It was a great day for SOU track and field. A big thanks to all that helped us out."

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