Day 1 Results | Day 1 Team Scores
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico track & field team opened its title defense at the 2016 Mountain West Indoor Track & Field Championships Thursday with a trio of sixth-place finishes.
Kyra Mohns placed sixth in the women’s pentathlon and the Lobos’ men’s and women’s distance medley relay also took sixth in the respective races on the first day of the three-day championships at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Both the men’s team and the women’s team sit in sixth place through the first day, where just three events — the pentathlon and the DMRs — went final.
The women, who have won the last two MW indoor titles, have six total team points, while the men, who have won the last three MW indoor titles, have three points.
| Daniel Lam |
In the only other event of Thursday, Daniel Lam and Beau Clafton posted strong opens in the men’s heptathlon, which concludes Friday morning.
For Mohns, the sophomore from Albuquerque battled a strong, 17-athlete field for her second-straight scoring effort in the pentathlon. She tallied 3,617 points, with strong marks in the 60-meter hurdles and the 800.
Mohns opened with an eighth-place time of 9.07 seconds in the hurdles for 895 points. She followed that up with solid marks in the high jump (5-3 ¾, 759 points), shot put (35-10, 590 points) and long jump (17-4, 637 points) before running a near-personal record of 2:26.58 in the 800.
She added three points to the Lobos’ team score, with the other three coming from the women’s DMR.
The squad of Mackenzie Everett, Larimar Rodriguez, Zoe Howell and Emily Hosker-Thornhill ran a time of 11:46.50, which ranks fifth in New Mexico history in the DMR.
The men’s quartet of Adam Monroe, Isaac Gonzales, David Banwell-Clode and Chris Graham finished in 10:20.97.
In the heptathlon, Lam and Clafton shined in the first four events of the seven-eventer.
| Beau Clafton |
Lam, who sits in second place through day one with 2,892 points, tallied strong results in the 60 (PR of 7.28, 785 points) and long jump (22-10, 804 points) and added a runner-up finish in the shot put (42-8, 667 points). He also cleared 5-11 ¼ in the high jump for 636 points.
Clafton, who is right behind Lam in third place with 2,863 points, won both the 60 (PR of 6.96, 897 points) and the shot put (43 ½, 675 points), while also posting strong marks in the long jump (20-4 ¼, 630 points) and high jump (PR of 6 ½, 661 points).
Colorado State’s Hunter Price leads the heptathlon with 3,222 points.
The second day of the MW Championships starts at 11 a.m. MT with the conclusion of the men’s heptathlon. Field events start at 12:30 p.m. with the women’s weight throw, while track events commence at 1:30 p.m. with the qualifying round of the men’s mile.