COMPLETE MEET RESULTS
MEN’S CCC CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM SCORES – 1. Eastern Oregon 190, 2. College of Idaho 178, 3. British Columbia 157, 4. Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 99, 5. Southern Oregon 86, 6. Multnomah 38, 7. Corban 26, 8. Bushnell 17, 9. Oregon Tech 14, 10. Northwest (Wash.) 8
FINAL AWARDS
Field Athlete of the Meet – Allexander Kosel, Eastern Oregon
Track Athlete of the Meet – Clayton VanDyke, Lewis-Clark State
Coach of the Year – Ben Welch, Eastern Oregon
Sportsmanship Award – Bushnell
ASHLAND – TJ Davis and Allexander Kosel led Eastern Oregon to its second consecutive Cascade Conference men’s title, finishing the job Saturday at Raider Stadium on Day 2 of the CCC Championships presented by U.S. Bank.
The Mountaineers, who shared the title in 2021 with College of Idaho, prevailed with 190 points to C of I’s 178. Davis, a junior multi-event athlete, scored 42 points with two wins over six individual events at the meet and was part of a first-place 4x100-meter relay team. Kosel, a junior jumper, defended his titles in the long and triple jumps and placed second in the high jump en route to Field Athlete of the Meet honors.
EOU’s Ben Welch was voted the Men’s Coach of the Year for the sixth time in his career. Lewis-Clark State (Idaho)’s Clayton VanDyke took the Track Athlete of the Meet award after winning the 800 and 1,500 and helping the Warriors to third place in the 4x400.
A chronological recap of Saturday’s events is below:
JAVELIN: UBC freshman Cameron Kuziak pulled off an upset as the No. 3 seed , throwing 202 feet 9 inches to earn the win. SOU’s Andrew Mitchell, the No. 5 seed, also put forth a season-best effort at 198-11 for second place, and EOU’s Moses McAninch was third at 178-3.
TRIPLE JUMP: After winning the long jump on, EOU’s Allexander Kosel defended another title and made himself an automatic national qualifier with a triple-jump of 48-6 ¾. C of I’s Nate Griswold put himself in the NAIA ‘B’ category with a second-place mark of 47-7, and EOU’s DJ Wilson stole the third All-CCC spot by winning a tiebreaker at 45-3 ½.
HIGH JUMP: EOU had five scorers and swept All-CCC honors behind freshman Tyler Jones, who cleared 6-5. Teammates Allexander Kosel (6-5) and John Stuvland (6-4) placed second and third in the Mountaineers’ 29-point effort.
DISCUS: A shot-put champion on Friday, C of I’s Bryan Terry doubled up on titles and tripled up on all-conference recognition in becoming a back-to-back champion with a mark of 156-2. The Yotes had four scorers in the event and also produced the runner-up in Stephen Campbell (154-9). SOU’s Andrew Mitchell threw 154-4 to place third.
100 METERS: Jaron Carter collected the first-ever 100-meter crown for Bushnell with a time of 10.68 seconds. Carter clocked a season-best, as did second-place Daniel Dixon (10.72) of Bushnell and third-place Coldy Milmine (10.77) of EOU.
800 METERS: In a neck-and-neck finish, LCSC’s Clayton VanDyke won the 800 for the second year in a row with a time of 1:56.36, edging runner-up Ryan Goudron (1:51.93) of UBC. The Thunderbirds produced three of the top-six and their Paul Fisher (1:52.38) earned the third All-CCC spot.
400-METER HURDLES: CCC decathlon champion TJ Davis of EOU claimed his second title and fourth individual all-conference honor of the meet with a time of 53.46. He beat out C of I’s defending champion Lane Maher, who was runner-up in 53.99. LCSC’s Ike Hopper (54.34) placed third.
200 METERS: After winning Multnomah’s first-ever 400 title on Friday, Roderick Soto picked up the Lions’ first CCC 200 win in 21.90 seconds – beating runner-up Chase Haagensen of UBC by just three-hundredths of a second. Cody Milmine of EOU placed third for the second time at the meet in 10.77 seconds, beating UBC’s Riley Beecroft by two-thousandths.
5,000 METERS: Robert Swoboda became Corban’s first CCC champion in any distance race, winning comfortably in 14:39.76. LCSC’s Cole Olsen, Friday’s 10K champ, was second in 14:48.64, and UBC’s Thomas Nobbs (15:02.49) placed third.
4x400-METER RELAY: SOU got its first event win of the weekend in the meet finale as Cade O’Connor, AJ Sandvig, Damian Williams and Shane McLaughlin logged a time of 3:20.46. LCSC (3:21.08) and C of I (3:21.16) were next in as All-CCC performers.