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Higby and Ney Have Big Days at NNU Invitational

Higby and Ney Have Big Days at NNU Invitational

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NAMPA, Idaho – Big days from Tyler Higby and Brooks Ney highlighted a great afternoon for the College of Idaho men's track team at the 2016 Northwest Nazarene Invitational.

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The Yotes won four individual titles and established six new Cascade Conference Championships qualifying marks on the day.
 
Higby became the first C of I runner to break the 11-second mark in the 100-meters since the program returned in 2005, taking second with a time of 10.95 seconds.  The two-sport athlete also won the 200-meters (22.19) and ran a leg on the victorious 4x100-meter relay (42.61).
 
Ney broke the Coyote school record in the 110-meter high hurdles, with his time of 15.00 seconds good enough for third-place in the event and establishing an NAIA "B" qualifying standard.  The junior also took second in the 400-meter hurdles (55.76) and hit the CCC qualifying standard in the javelin (50.44 meters).
 
In the long jump, Isaac Gonzalez recorded a personal best leap of 6.92 meters to place second and added a mark of 13.08 meters in the triple jump.
 
C of I had two other winners – Joseph Bolin in the 400-meters (50.27) and Collin Tracy in the 1,500-meters (4:12.23) – with Bolin hitting the CCC cut in both the 400 and the 200-meters (22.86).  Edmund Ellis hit the CCC mark with a second-place finish in the 800-meters (1:56.37), as did Andrew Sutton in the 10,000-meters (33:13.69) and Charles Kido in the pole vault (3.26 meters).
 

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