UCI's Matt Lahti Wins Hammer Throw at Big West Championships
May 15, 2009
IRVINE, Calif. --- UC Irvine junior Matt Lahti won the hammer throw Friday on the first day of the Big West Conference Track & Field Championships at Anteater Stadium.
Lahti won the event with a mark of 194-4 with teammate Jimmy Kearney placing fourth at 179-0.
Two school records fell for the Anteaters Friday. Senior Lauren Chramosta finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:36.39 as she broke her own mark set earlier this season. Teammate Kendall Bruton placed fifth in the steeplechase with a time of 10:52.31.
Freshman Golde Ibia ran a school-record 13.88 in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles to qualify for the NCAA West Regional at Eugene, Ore., May 29-30. Her time broke the previous record of 13.96 set by Lauren Collins in 2007.
Other UCI men who picked up points Friday were Nick Mosey, who finished fifth in the 10,000 meters in 30:39.91, and Julian Eison, who placed sixth in the high jump at 6-8 ¼.
UCI women who also scored points Friday were Natasha Wardley with a fifth-place finish of 19-2 in the long jump, Jenny Lee with an eighth-place mark of 121-9 in the javelin throw, and Kristi Fryer, who finished eighth in the pole vault at 11-1 ¾.
In the team competition, Cal State Northridge leads both the men (61.50 points) and women (76). UCI is seventh in both with the men totaling 21.50 points and the women 15.50.
All events will be finals Saturday with field events beginning at 11:00 a.m. and the track events at 4:00 p.m.
