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Grand Valley State is back at No. 1 for the second time this season. The annual GVSU Big Meet was, in fact, a big meet for the Lakers, as they continued to add to their haul of nationally ranked marks. Grand Valley State earned five marks that sit within the top-5 nationally:
Dennis Mbuta in the 800 (No. 2, 1:49.03);
Eli Kosiba in the high jump (No. 2, 2.14m/7-¼);
Jonathon Groendyk in the 800 (No. 4, 1:50.40);
Tanner Chada in the 5000 (No. 4, 13:52.62). Groendyk and Mbuta were also contributing legs of the Lakers’ national leading DMR that set a NCAA DII all-conditions best of 9:39.28.
The second-ranked Eagles traveled to Allendale, Michigan for the Big Meet and earned a pair of ranked relays in the process. Ashland clocked 3:12.18 in the 4×400 and ran 9:45.23 in the DMR, both good for No. 2 on the Descending Order List. Out of the 11 top-10 nationally ranked marks Ashland has, nine sit within the top-5 of their respective events.
We told you that this would be a big weekend in collegiate indoor track & field.
We just didn’t know how big of a weekend it would turn out to be.
Well, buckle your seatbelts, folks: We’re about to go for a ride.
These were just some of the 19 different collegiate-leading marks that were turned over Valentine’s Day Weekend. Go ahead and read that again: 19.
We’re Talking World History, Folks
Name a better duo than Texas A&M and the 4×400 relay.
After what happened Saturday afternoon at the Tyson Invitational, the only thing track & field aficionados can name are three more teams and eight more performances better in world history than what the Aggie women turned inside the Randal Tyson Track Center.
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The best news of the day on this dreary Thursday: nobody for whom we’d have to provide an obituary died yesterday. It wasn’t for lack of trying, though; your benevolent despot is now suffering intercostal muscle spasms after slipping and falling
hard on ice
twice last night. After a night of trying to breathe through it, being dead would have been a relief. I have no idea how quarterbacks are even able to walk now, much less actually play quarterback.
Alas, we’re still here to share the news about another suffering entity: Kansas State women’s basketball. The ladies fell to 0-10 last night in Fort Worth after holding a halftime lead in a 78-67 loss at TCU. But at least the narrative was different; last night, the Cats blew their lead in the third quarter rather than the fourth.