BELLINGHAM, Wash. (May 4) -- Behind the yeoman individual effort of Stephanie Huffman and Dionna Anderson leading a sweep of the shot put, Seattle Pacific University claimed its third straight women's conference title at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference track & field championships Saturday at Civic Stadium.

The Falcons won eight events, took nine silver medals and eight bronze to defeat Western Oregon by a margin of 32.5 points, 226-194.5.

The men's team, led by a pair of middle-distance wins by Nathanael Castle and second straight title by Paul Mach in the 400 hurdles, took sixth with 60 points. Western Oregon won handily with 206.5.

Huffman (Sr., Brush Prairie, Wa./Prairie) was voted the athlete of the meet for the second year in a row after successfully defending her titles in the long jump (18 feet, 1 inch) and javelin (148-4), to go along with her heptathlon victory a week ago. Altogether, she totaled 50 points over six events. Huffman was also second in the high jump (5-4 1/2) and triple jump (36-7) and fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.59).

Anderson (Sr., Edmonds, Wa./Edmonds-Woodway) captured her fifth shot put win of the season, successfully defending her conference title with a best throw of 41-11 1/2 and leading the Falcons to a 1-2-3 sweep.

In becoming the Falcon men's first double winner, Castle (Sr., Gooding, Id.) fought off Nathan Carlson of Saint Martin's in the 1500 and came back less than 90 minutes later to win the 800. Castle's 1500 time was 3:54.28 and 1:55.00 in the 800. Neal Fryett (Sr., Pullman, Wa./Logos) was second in the latter in 1:56.47.

Mach (So., Seattle, Wa./King's) defended his hurdles crown in 53.77 seconds. Micah Kellcy (Jr., Lakewood, Wa./Clover Park) was fourth in 57.85.

Kellcy, Mach, Castle and Fryett comprised the 1600 relay which was runner-up to Western Oregon in 3:23.00.

Jawea Harder (Sr., Port Townsend, Wa.) of SPU comfortably cruised to first in the women's 400 hurdles in 62.43 seconds. She also ran a leg of the 1600 relay which won in 3:56.37.

Seattle Pacific got a surprising win from Sarah Kraybill in the 800 meters. She parlayed a strong kick to come from behind and snap teammate Rachel Ross' four-meet win streak. Kraybill (Jr., Seattle, Wa./Ballard) passed Ross with 200 meters to go and finished in a personal-best time of 2 minutes, 12.92 seconds with Ross crossing in 2:13.65.

Ross (Sr., Kennewick, Wa.), who had won the 80 and 1500 conference titles the past two years, also was overtaken by Alicen Maier of Central Washington in the 1500. Maier was clocked in 4:31.84 and Ross in a season-best 4:32.08.

Laura Widman (Jr., Colfax, Wa.) and Jennifer Pyeatt (So., Graham, Wa./Bethel) continued their comebacks. Pyeatt was runner-up in the 100 hurdles (15.26) and shot put (40-8 1/4) and third in the 400 hurdles (1:07.00). Widman was third in both the long jump (17-8 1/2) and shot put (39-10 3/4).

Other silver medallists for the Falcons were Ally Studer (So., Redmond, Wa.) in the pole vault (11-5 3/4) and Kara Richard (Fr., Springbrook, NY/Iroquois) in the steeplechase (11:34.2). Also finishing among the top three and thereby earning all-conference

were Lauren Kooy (So., George, Wa./Quincy) in the discus (125-6).

There were no new NCAA Division II qualifiers for Seattle Pacific, but improvements on previous provisional marks by Kraybill, Ross (1500) and Huffman (javelin).

Jack Hoyt went home as the GNAC women's coach of the year by a vote of his peers. John Knight of Western Oregon was the men's honoree and the Wolves' Mike Hinshaw, winner of the 100 and 200 dashes, was the men's athlete of the meet.

The regular season and final chance to earn national qualifying marks comes next Saturday with the Ken Foreman Invitational at Husky Stadium.

MEN

Outstanding Performer - Mike Hinshaw, Western Oregon Coach of the Year - John Knight, Western Oregon

Team Scores-1, Western Oregon (WOU) 206.5, 2, Western Washington (WWU) 158.5, 3, Central Washington (CWU) 154.5, 4, Humboldt State (HSU) 106.5, 5, Northwest Nazarene (NNU) 71, 6, Seattle Pacific (SPU) 60, 7, Saint Martin's (SMC) 28, 8, Seattle U. (SU) 13, 9, Alaska Anchorage (UAA) 10.

100-1, Mike Hinshaw, WOU, 10.76, 2, Josh Delay, CWU, 11.00, 3, Justin Miller, HSU, 11.10, 4. Fabien Coutard CWU 11.10, 5, Kojo Obeng, CWU, 11.13, 6, Jason Newton, WOU, 11.30, 7, Cory Medina, CWU, 11.33, 8. Brian Hunter, SPU, 11.43.

200-1, Mike Hinshaw, WOU, 21.82, 2, Josh Delay, CWU, 21.95, 3, Fabien Coutard, CWU, 22.28, 4, Kojo Obeng, CWU, 22.78, 5. Jason Newton, WOU, 22.98, 6, Cory Medina, CWU, 22.99, 7, Nick Brown, CWU, 23.25, 8. David Olson, NNU, 23.26.

400-1, David Neilsen, SU, 49.26, 2, KJ Loreth, SMC, 49.52, 3, Donnie Herneisen, WOU, 50.06, 4, Josh Johnson, HSU, 50.39, 5, David Olson, NNU, 51.19, 6, Josh Freeman, WWU, 51.33, 7, Steve Brockett, WWU, 51.36, 8, Erik Iverson, CWU, 53.26.

800-1, Nathanael Castle, SPU, 1:55.00, 2, Neal Fryett, SPU, 1:56.47, 3, Jason Bush, CWU, 1:56.97, 4, Nate Carlson, SMC, 1:57.07, 5, Brandon Ohnemus, WWU, 1:57.40, 6, Kevin Gary, CWU, 1:57.84, 7, Andy Prentice, SMC, 1:58.10, 8, Nick Gai, HSU, 1:59.27.

1500-1, Nathanael Castle, SPU, 3:54.28, 2, Nate Carlson, SMC, 3:55.65, 3, Martin Ranney, WWU, 3:55.82, 4, Juraj Trubiroha, NNU, 3:57.65, 5, Tim LeCount, SPU, 3:57.89, 6, Caleb Tubei, NNU, 3:58.05, 7, Ben Wornell, NNU, 3:59.42, 8, Brandon Whitaker, WWU, 4:03.29.

3000 Steeplechase-1, Jason Walker, HSU, 9:17.6, 2, Neil Small, CWU, 9:30.5, 3, Ethan Barrons, WOU, 9:38.4, 4, Matt DeShazo, HSU, 9:39.0, 5, Matt Barreau, WOU, 9:45.5, 6, Zac Vawter, SMC, 9:47.4, 7, Jason Porter, CWU, 9:48.5, 8, Lehrin Morey, HSU, 9:48.6.

5000-1, Jason Walker, HSU, 14:57.92, 2, Caleb Tubei, NNU, 15:08.82, 3, Ben Wornell, NNU, 15:14.70, 4, Spencer Walsh, WOU, 15:27.12, 5, Martin Ranney, WWU, 15:33.69, 6, Steve DeKoker, WWU, 15:36.86, 7, Carlos Siqueiros, SU, 15:45.24, 8, Brian Kostock, HSU, 15:51.18.

10,000-1, Sean Rivers, UAA, 31:28.37, 2, Brice Roncace, NNU, 32:13.61, 3, Matt Schmitt, CWU, 32:30.90, 4, Andy Reese, WWU, 32:33.93, 5, Shawn Miller, WWU, 32:37.97, 6. Brett Franz, WOU, 32:41.67, 7, Will Smith, WOU, 32:48.01, 8, Kirk Larson, WWU, 32:50.88.

110 Hurdles-1, Damien Davis, WOU, 14.92, 2, Nate Anderson, WOU, 15.15, 3, Erik Iverson, CWU, 15.42, 4, Chris Bitcon, HSU, 15.79, 5, Ryan Lee, NNU, 16.02, 6, Josh Freeman, WWU, 16.05, 7. Mark Hamlin, CWU, 21.22.

400 Hurdles-1, Paul Mach, SPU, 53.77, 2, Nate Anderson, WOU, 55.38, 3, Ryan Los, WWU, 56.03, 4. Micah Kellcy, SPU, 57.85, 5, Mike Anderson, WOU, 58.21, 6, Shane Carothers, WWU, 58.45, 7, Michael Hartz, WWU, 58.59, 8, Chris Bitcon, HSU, 59.01.

4x100 Relay-1, WOU (Wynn, Newton, Herneinsen, Hinshaw) 42.14, 2., CWU (Obeng, Coutard, Medina, Delay) 42.17, 3, HSU (Johnson, Miller, Morales, Phillips) 43.24, 4, NNU (Fishburne, Lee, Olson, Bennum) 43.50, 5, SPU (Kelley, Berry, Mach, Hunter) 44.41, 6, WWU (Reese, Schaefer, Hayes, Carlson) 44.67.

4x400 Relay-1, WOU (Satran, Herneinsen, Anderson, Hinshaw) 3:20.20, 2, SPU (Mach, Kelley, Castle, Fryett) 3:23.00, 3, WWU (Brockett, McNeil, Caruthers, Los) 3:23.37, 4, CWU (Trevino, Bush, Coutard, Moon) 3:24.57, 5, NNU (Olson, Hill, Meier, Bennum) 3:26.90, 6, HSU (Johnson, Phillips, Hayes, Miller) 3:27.50, 7, SMC (Carlson, Loreth, Joseph, Prentice) 3:27.97, 8, SU (Nishida, Neilsen, Gabriel, Manos) 3:32.01.

High Jump-1, Jamil Wynn, WOU, 6-6.25, 2, Brendan Reilly, HSU, 6-6.25, 3, Mike Tully, WWU,, 6-6.25, 4, Beau Ross, CWU, 6-6.25, 5, Mike Bonadurer, WOU, 6-4.25, 6, Peter Allan, WWU,6-4.25, 7, Scott Durbin, WWU, 6-0.5, 8, Brandon Conroy, WOU, 5-10.5, 8, Sean Gabe, WOU, 5-10.5.

Long Jump-1, Justin Lawrence, CWU, 23-1.75, 2, Joe Smith, CWU, 22-9.75, 3, Brad Satran, WOU, 22-2.25, 4, Justin Miller, HSU, 22-1.5, 5, Jamil Wynn, WOU, 22-1, 6, Erik Iverson, CWU, 21-2, 7. Nate Anderson, WOU, 20-9.75, 8, Preston Timmons, HSU, 19-2.75.

Triple Jump-1, Justin Lawrence, CWU, 48-6.25, 2, Beau Ross, CWU, 46-11, 3, Jamil Wynn, WOU, 45-8.5, 4, Brad Satran, WOU, 44-11.5, 5, Daniel Straw, WOU, 40-11.

Shot Put-1, James Deaver, WWU, 49-3/4, 2, Erik Knutzen, WWU, 45-6.25, 3, Ian McDole WWU 45-3, 4, Collin Babcock, WOU, 44-10.75, 5, Aaron Hayes, CWU, 44-5.5, 6, Tom Farris, WWU, 43-4.25, 7, Brady Jones, WWU, 42-1.5, 8. Ryan Thomason, CWU, 41-10.

Pole Vault-1, Spike Olsen, WOU, 14-9, 2, Scott Romney, WWU, 14-3.25, 3, Justin Miller, HSU, 14-3.25, 4, Hunter Verner , WWU, 14-3.25, 4, Jon Stroschine, WOU,, 14-3.25, 6, Josh Fishburne, NNU, 13-09.25, 7, Jacob Hayes, HSU, 13-9.25, 7, BJ Malphrus, CWU, 13-9.25.

Discus-1, Tony Kyle, WWU, 154-10, 2, Jacob Galloway, CWU, 151-3, 3, Tom Farris, WWU, 151-2, 4, James Deaver , WWU, 145-8, 5, James Thomas,Jr., NNU, 140-5, 6, Brady Jones, WWU, 139-7, 7, Todd Gowing, WWU, 136-8, 8, Greg Gottfried, WOU, 135-5. Hammer-1, Dave Margraf, HSU, 172-7, 2, Greg Gottfried, WOU, 160-2, 3, Tim Jolin, WWU, 156-10, 4. Jordan Abbott, WOU, 156-1, 5. Adam Butts, NNU, 135-8, 6, Golden Ables, HSU, 135-8, 7, Ryan Nack, WOU, 131-10, 8, James Deaver, WWU, 128-10.

Javelin-1, James Thomas,Jr., NNU, 195-2, 2, Derek Deskins, WOU, 193-3, 3, Tony Kyle, WWU, 191-0, 4, Tony Roberts, WOU, 191-0, 5, Travis Huntsinger, WWU, 180-8, 6. Ray Henschel, WOU, 178-6, 7, Justin Brewer, WWU, 177-0, 8, Brice Crowninshield, CWU, 173-6. Decathlon-1, Justin Miller, HSU, 6366, 2, Jacob Hayes, HSU, 5515, 3, Brandon Conroy, WOU, 5404, 4, Josh Freeman, WWU, 5270, 5, Sean Gabe, WOU, 5251, 6, Curt Moon CWU, 5178, 7, Chris Petersen, CWU, 3987.

WOMEN

Outstanding Performer - Stephanie Huffman, Seattle Pacific Coach of the Year - Jack Hoyt, Seattle Pacific

Team Scores-1, Seattle Pacific 226, 2, Western Oregon 194.5, 3, Western Washington 127, 4, Central Washington 111, 5, Humboldt State 85, 6, Northwest Nazarene 51.5, 7, Seattle U 22, 8, Saint Martin's 11, 9, Alaska Anchorage 4.

100-1, Jody Binder, CWU, 12.0, 2, Melissa Behrens, WWU, 12.1, 3, Davina Strauss, CWU, 12.3, 4, Jawea Harder, SPU, 12.3, 5, Shelley Comstock, WOU, 12.4, 6, Alison DeGracia, CWU, 12.7, 7, Emily Porter, WOU, 12.8, 7, Bekah Bowman, NNU, 12.8, 7, Kate Herber, WWU, 12.8.

200-1, Dania Swosinski, WWU, 25.30, 2, Jody Binder, CWU, 25.30, 3, Carrie Bronson, HSU, 25.86, 4, Melissa Behrens, WWU, 26.07, 5, Leah Wiiest, SPU, 26.07, 6, Monica Smith, WOU, 26.07, 7, Toni Adair, WOU, 26.19, 8, Lindsey Stewart, SPU, 26.37.

400-1, Dania Swosinski, WWU, 57.66, 2, Toni Adair, WOU, 58.56, 3, Lindsey Stewart, SPU, 59.26, 4, Alisa Long, WOU, 1:00.32, 5, Carrie Bronson, HSU, 1:00.83, 6, Jessica Opersteny, WWU, 1:00.95, 7, Wendy Lautner, HSU, 1:01.63, 8, Kristi Lund, NNU, 1:01.93.

800-1, Sarah Kraybill, SPU, 2:12.92, 2. Rachel Ross, SPU, 2:13.65, 3. Nikki Hodgson, HSU, 2:19.46, 4. Theresa Lane, WOU, 2:22.06, 5. Meredith Gomes, WWU, 2:22.89, 6. Emily Ferguson, SU, 2:23.33, 7. Crystal Johnson, HSU, 2:23.56;, 8. Mindy Noble, WWU, 2:25.23.

1500-1, Alicen Maier, CWU, 4:31.84, 2, Rachel Ross, SPU, 4:32.08, 3, Josie Lavin, SPU, 4:47.36, 4, Kelly Fullerton, SU, 4:47.96, 5, Ann-Marie Wiggins, NNU, 4:54.06, 6, Tina Stimson, WWU, 4:55.27, 7, Danielle Jacobs, HSU, 4:55.40, 8, Lindy Mullen, CWU, 4:55.50.

3000-1, Alicen Maier, CWU, 10:06.86, 2, Kari Gosnell, HSU, 10:25.18, 3, Kelly Fullerton, SU, 10:35.85, 4, Dolores Bergmann, HSU, 10:35.85, 5. Ann-Marie Wiggins, NNU, 10:37.92, 6, Ellie Enos, WOU, 10:38.21, 7, Dawnita LiaBraaten, CWU, 10:42.43, 8, Danielle Jacobs, HSU, 10:43.16.

5000-1, Katie Gosnell, HSU, 17:35.03, 2, Ashlee Vincent, WWU, 17:53.54, 3, Dolores Bergmann, HSU, 18:03.52, 4, Tiffany Picinich, CWU, 18:17.20, 5, Stacy Edwards, UAA, 18:24.78, 6, Kylee Wells, WOU, 18:28.68, 7, Ruth Hawkinson, SPU, 19:03.05, 8. Ann McCanick, SMC, 19:05.02.

10,000-1, Ellie Enos, WOU, 37:31.43. 2. Rachel Wiseman, HSU, 38:25.89, 3, Susan Young, NNU, 39:13.57, 4, Sarah Block, WOU, 40:22.34, 5. Amelia Kinney, WOU, 40:33.05, 6, Kelly Smith, HSU, 42:41.77.

100 Hurdles-1, Kate Herber, WWU, 15.06, 2, Jennifer Pyeatt, SPU, 15.26, 3, Natalie Svenvold, WWU, 15.43, 4, Cassie Moorhouse, WOU, 15.49, 5, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 15.59, 6. Catherine Cook, WOU, 15.85, 7, Leah Wiiest, SPU, 16.29, 8. Laura Widman, SPU, 16.29.

400 Hurdles-1, Jawea Harder, SPU, 1:02.43, 2, Cassie Moorhouse, WOU, 1:03.95, 3, Jennifer Pyeatt, SPU, 1:07.00, 4, Laura Burch, WWU, 1:07.64, 5, Laura Winterhalter, HSU, 1:08.47, 6, Jill Salmon, WOU, 1:08.51, 7, Brooke Little, SPU, 1:11.15, 8, Lindsy Glaze, NNU, 1:11.89.

3000 Steeplechase-1, Jill Salmon, WOU, 11:24.6, 2, Kara Richard, SPU, 11:34.2, 3, Emily Thomas, SMC, 11:38.5.

4x100 Relay-1, CWU (DeGracia, Strauss, Lashbrook, Binder) 48.78, 2, WOU (Porter, Smith, Long, Comstock) 49.02, 3, HSU (Winterhalter, Zehrbach, Lisk, Bronson) 49.38, 4, SPU (Weyers, Ocampo, Harder, Wiiest) 49.81, 5, NNU (Metzger, Lund, Esposito, Bowman) 52.62, WWU DQ.

4x400 Relay-1, SPU (Harder, McClary, Kraybill, Ross) 3:56.37, 2, WOU (Moorehouse, Long, Smith, Adair) 3:58.04, 3, WWU (Burch, Evans, Opersteny, Swosinski) 3:59.70, 4, CWU (Minder, Straus, Mullen, Maier) 4:00.84, 5, HSU (Lautner, Lisk, Zerhrbach, Bronson) 4:09.65, 6, NNU (Bowman, Glaze, Lund, Esposito) 4:19.52, 7, SU (Bjeb, Ferguson, Mathews, Fullerton) 4:26.10, 8, SMC (McCanick, Dalrymple, Thomas, Houk) 4:37.41.

Pole Vault-1, Danielle Juarez, WWU, 11-5.75, 2, Ally Studer, SPU, 11-5.75, 3, Theresa Mangahas, SU, 10-6, 4, Aubrey Metzger, NNU, 10-0, 5, Alina Lunsford, NNU, 9-6.25, 5, Amber Rose, SPU, 9-6.25, 7, Kira Langnese, WOU, 9-6.25, 8, Kelly Perez, WWU, 9-0.25.

Long Jump-1, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 18-1, 2, Davina Strauss, CWU, 17-11, 3, Laura Widman, SPU, 17-8.5, 4, Shelley Comstock, WOU, 17-4.25, 5, Leah Wiiest, SPU, 16-7.5, 6, Morgan Ranta, SPU, 15-9, 7, Aubrey Metzger, NNU, 11-3.75.

Triple Jump-1, Shelley Comstock, WOU, 37-4.5, 2, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 36-7, 3, Lea Tiger, CWU, 35-10.75, 4, Lacey Rasmussen, NNU, 35-3, 5, Julie Graham, CWU, 34-5.5, 6, Danika Desclos, SMC, 34-2.25, 7, Aubrey Metzger, NNU, 32-10.25, 8, Amber Rose, SPU, 32-5.75.

High Jump-1, Jenoa Potter, CWU, 5-4.5, 2, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 5-4.5, 3, Natalie Svenvold, WWU, 5-4.5, 4, Monica Smith, WOU, 5-4.5, 5, Laura Widman, SPU, 5-0.5, 6, Liz Ryan, CWU, 5-0.5, 7, Holly Conrad, WOU, 4-10.5, 7, Lea Tiger, CWU, 4-10.5.

Discus-1, Kristi Lund, NNU, 141-7, 2, Jaci Cedarberg, WOU, 125-10, 3, Lauren Kooy, SPU 125-6, 4, Dorothy Kerr, WOU, 124-0, 5, Megan Wright, WWU, 122-10, 6, Shalese Borden, WOU, 121-5, 7, Kristina MacCully, WWU, 110-5, 8, Stacey Hopkins, WWU, 109-2.

Shot Put-1, Dionna Anderson, SPU, 41-11.5, 2, Jennifer Pyeatt, SPU 40-8.25 3, Laura Widman, SPU, 39-10.75, 4, Holly Conrad, WOU, 39-1, 5, Shalese Borden, WOU, 37-10, 6, Dorothy Kerr, WOU, 37-8.75, 7, Kathy Zehrbach, HSU, 37-1.25, 8, Brianne Barrett, WWU, 36-7.75.

Javelin-1, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 148-4, 2, Holly Conrad, WOU,145-1, 3, Kate Droz, HSU, 136-6, 4, Karie Pruett, CWU, 134-0, 5, Stacey Hopkins, WWU, 133-10, 6, Kira Langnese, WOU, 123-11, 7, Jaci Cederberg, WOU, 123-7, 8, Hailey Ruff, CWU, 123-1.

Hammer-1, Jennifer Dunkin, WOU, 149-11, 2, Jaci Cederberg, WOU, 133-8, 3, Marianne Scott, WWU, 130-8, 4, Shalese Borden, WOU, 126-5, 5, Dorothy Kerr, WOU, 124-11, 6, Brianne Barrett, WWU, 114-11, 7, Christin McDowell, CWU, 111-10, 8, Rebeckah Ackermann, CWU, 101-10.

Heptathlon-1, Stephanie Huffman, SPU, 4867, 2, Laura Widman, SPU, 4658, 3, Leah Wiiest, SPU, 4649, 4, LeAnne Evans, WWU, 4130, 5, Natalie Svenvold, WWU, 4094, 6, Holly Conrad, WOU, 3969, 7, Kathy Gellatly, WOU, 3504.