BHSU Results
Cobber Open - Men
Cobber Open - Women
MOORHEAD, Minn./SPEARFISH, S.D. – The Northern State University track and field teams sent a split squad to two different meets on Saturday and returned home with nine individual event wins and a relay title. NSU claimed four of those titles – all on the men’s side – at the Black Hills State Dave Little Invitational in Spearfish, S.D., while the remainder came at the Concordia-Moorhead Cobber Open in Moorhead, Minn.
No team scores were kept at either meet.
Sophomore Montrel Richardson and senior Bill Cameron both won two events at the Black Hills meet. Richardson doubled in the 60 and 200-meter dashes with times of 7.04 and 22.87 seconds, respectively, while Cameron led a 1-2 NSU finish in the 60-meter hurdles (8.49 seconds) before coming back to claim the 400-meter dash title (51.34 seconds).
The men’s squad also got several strong performances at the Cobber Open, including a pair of wins in the distance events. Freshman Jake Arechigo won the 1,000 meters by nearly two seconds with a time of 2:39.09, while sophomore Richard Keroack bested a 23-man field in the mile. Keroack edged three Division I athletes for that win, clocking a time of 4:27.65.
Arechigo and Keroack also led the men’s distance medley relay squad to a 21-second victory in that event. Keroack led off the relay, while senior Kyle Weisbeck, Arechigo and fellow freshman Jayce Seelig finished out the relay for a time of 11:02.79.
On the women’s side, senior Amanda Madden continued her tear through the 2010 season, posting national qualifying efforts in both the shot put and weight throw, winning both events in the process. Madden posted a mark of 13.35 meters (43-9.75 feet) in the shot put, her first ever provisional qualifying effort in that event.
She returned to win the weight throw in similar fashion, setting an olson Forum Record toss of 17.04 meters (55-11.00) in the preliminaries before bettering that mark to 17.68 meters (58-0.25) in the finals. That throw was more than ten feet better than the second place finisher, but well off her personal best mark of 18.20 meters, which she set earlier this season.
The Wolves will run a full squad next Saturday as they host the NSU Open in the Barnett Center. Field events will start at 11 a.m. with running events to follow.