UC SANTA BARBARA DUAL
Love, Nielsen Win Twice Each for Cal Poly at Dual Meet Against UCSB
5/3/2014 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Cal Poly track and field team won 17 events at the annual Blue-Green Rivalry home dual meet against UC Santa Barbara on Saturday.
Ajah Love won the women's 200 meters by slightly more than a half-second, at 24.03. The sophomore's time, which bettered her previous career best (24.25 from just a week ago at the Bulldog Invitational in Clovis), is the fourth-fastest in school history.
Love (pictured at far right) also won a fast 100 heat in 11.81 — one-hundredth ahead of freshman teammate Daijah Joe-Smith.
Fellow sophomore Kendal Nielsen also won multiple events for the Mustangs.
She first claimed the long jump at 18 feet, 10.75 inches (tying her year-old PR), before later outdistancing everyone else in the triple jump, at 40-4.25. It was the fifth time this season (two in dual settings; three at invitationals) that Nielsen has been the winner in the latter.
In the men's 100-meter dash (with wind speed at 2.1), senior Jamison Jordan won in a season-best 10.44, just shy of the fastest time of his career.
Chris Frias also came close to surpassing his season-best time in the 3,000 (8:06.66, which ranks third in program history), winning in 8:08.55 to edge senior teammate Sean Davidson (8:12.27).
The men's squad also picked up wins in the:
- pole vault (Patrick Hughes, 16-7, a PR and the team's No. 1 height for 2014)
- 3,000 steeplechase (Nick Woolf, 9:10.99)
- 400 hurdles (Ben Hartinger, season-best 54.78)
- 200 (Walter Finney, 21.60, another top time for this spring)
- high jump (Danny Yeager, clearing a season-best 6-4.75)
- javelin throw (Ivy Adair, 183-7, smashing his old PR by nearly 22 feet)
- 1,600 relay (3:16.19)
The women's team added wins in the:
- 800 (Elaina Cromer, 2:13.22)
- 3,000 (Rachel Bush, 10:03.88)
- pole vault (Clara Davis, 12-1.5)
- 400 relay (47.38)
In a close one that ultimately wasn't decided until throwing was settled in the discus cage, UCSB's men won 102.5-99.5. The Gaucho women also prevailed with a similar score, 104-98. Complete results can be viewed HERE.
The Mustangs will next head to UC Davis for the Big West Championships, starting with the decathlon and heptathlon on May 9-10 and resuming May 16-17.
