Convincingly, Concordia sweeps track titles

Hess, Kay named top athletes in conference meet

The Portland Tribune, May 11, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009

Concordia won the men’s and women’s track and field championships Saturday at Mt. Hood Community College.

The Cavalier men totaled 238 ½ points to pull away from Eastern Oregon (187) and Oregon Tech (118 ½). The Concordia women were dominant, too, on the third and final day, boosting their total to 229 points. OIT was second at 187, and Eastern Oregon took third with 156 1/2.

Annie Hess and Nik Kay were named athletes of the meet. Hess won the discus and hammer. She broke her discus meet record with a throw of 171 feet, 6 inches, five feet beyond the mark she set last year. She also finished second in the shot put.

Kay had seconds in the shot, discus and hammer.

Concordia’s Randy Dalzell was named coach of the year for men and women.

It was Concordia’s third straight men’s title in three years of the program’s existence (the men tied Eastern Oregon in 2007). The Cavalier women won their second consecutive conference crown.

Other meet records went to Tim Badley (15 minutes, 4.63 seconds in the 1,500, a new mark by nearly four seconds); Curtis Parrish in the 400-meter hurdles (53.06, eclipsing the 53.34 of Concordia’s Jordan Jamblen in 2006); Matt Artau in the discus (176-4, bettering the old standard of 168-6); and Lauren Sexton (158-0 in the women’s javelin, snapping her 2006 record of 154-11).

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