RESULTS (PDF)

McMinnville, Ore. — Two seconds. Doesn't seem like a lot of time, but it is in track & field's middle distances. And it was by two seconds that five different Viking middle-distance runners set collegiate or lifetime bests Saturday at the Linfield Open.
 
Two Vikings in both the men's and women's 1,500 meters set two-second personal bests at the meet. Delaney White and Phoebe Brown beat their previous bests by the two-second margin on the women's side, while Ian Vickstrom and Jayson Maule set new standards on the men's side.
 
White placed third in the women's 1,500 meters in 4:51.86, just under two seconds better than her previous best of 4:53.56. Brown, meanwhile, placed sixth in 4:59.22, her first time dipping under five minutes as a Viking. Brown's prep personal best in the 1,500 is 4:58, but she beat her previous collegiate best by close to two seconds just like White.
 
Vickstrom and Maule went over two seconds in their personal bests as they finished in 4:07.37 and 4:11.46, respectively. Vickstrom was running in his first 1,500-meter race as a Viking, but crushed his old prep personal best of 4:09.57. Maule, conversely, was running in his fourth 1,500-meter race of the season, with his previous three times all tightly grouped in the 4:13.5-4:14.0 range. Maule broke out of that range with his performance Saturday, however, which was his first time competing for the Vikings since he set his previous 1,500-meter best at the Jay Hammer Invitational on April 13.
 
Will Payton joined the 1,500-meter runners with a two-second personal best in the men's 800 meters. Payton finished in 1:57.22 Saturday, crushing the personal best of 1:59.14 that he set just last week at the OSU High Performance meet.
 
Andy Solano and Cody Jones joined the middle-distance runners with their own personal bests, but they did it by larger chunks of time while competing in the men's 5,000 meters.
 
Solano led a group of six Vikings in the event while placing sixth in 15:41.10. That was a 13.5-second improvement over Solano's previous best in the outdoor 5,000 meters, which came at the beginning of the season when he finished in 15:54.78 at the L&C Spring Break Open.
 
Jones, meanwhile, finished right behind Solano at seventh in 15:45.07, shaving close to 28 seconds off his previous best in the 5,000 meters. Jones' previous best in the 5,000 was 16:12.98, which came in his final race of last season at the Pacific Twilight Invitational.
 
The Vikings now turn their attention to the Big Sky Outdoor Championships, which begin Wednesday in Missoula, Mont. The heptathlon and decathlon take place over the first two days of the meet, May 8-9, while the rest of the events get take place Friday and Saturday, May 10-11. 
 
Linfield Open
Maxwell Field
McMinnville, Ore.
May 4, 2019
 
Women's Results:
1,500m: 3. Delaney White, 4:51.86; 6. Phoebe Brown, 4:59.22. 5,000m: 7. Alana Baldwin-Joiner, 20:17.95; 8. Monica Salazar, 20:21.21. 100H: 3. Alexis Buckhaults, 15.13. Javelin: 16. Taylor Matsuzaki, 106-09 (32.53m).
 
Men's Results:
800m: 9. Will Payton, 1:57.22; 18. Austen Hvidsten, 2:00.76. 1,500m: 12. Ian Vickstrom, 4:07.37; 18. Jayson Maule, 4:11.46. 5,000m: 6. Andy Solano, 15:41.10; 7. Cody Jones, 15:45.07; 8. Erik Solano, 15:58.12; 12. Elmer Shelevy, 16:13.61; 18. Collin Werth, 17:02.93; Nigel Leonis, DNF. Pole Vault: 4. Braden Masanga, 14-07.25 (4.45m). Javelin: 6. Jean Rwandika, 164-03 (50.07m).
 
Portland Twilight
Eldon Fix Track
Portland, Ore.
May 3, 2019
 
Men's Results:
800m: 31. Austen Hvidsten, 1:59.24.