FOREST GROVE, Ore. – A pair of distance runners and the 4x100m relay team took home event win on Saturday as the Beacons competed in the Pacific Preview.
 
Junior Andy Martinez topped a 19-runner field in the 800m, coming in at 1:59.64 to win the event and miss a CCC qualification by just two seconds.  
 
Senior Conner Covey claimed the other individual event title, winning the 5000m race by 11 seconds over teammate Carson Bain
 
The 4x100m relay team, featuring three members of the All-Conference squad from last season, won their event by two tenths of a second. Nicolas Delgado, Antonio Campos-Perez, Josh McCluskey, and Shawn Johnson ran a 42.88, the second fastest time in the conference.
 
The runners took event champions but it was in the field events that three Beacons broke through with the first Cascade Collegiate Conference qualifications of 2019. Sophomore transfer Brevin Russnogle made a great impression in his Beacon debut, qualifying twice for the CCC championships.
 
Russnogle took second-place in the Triple Jump (13.03m) and posted the second-longest jump in school history. He also qualified in the long jump (6.37m) and became the second-longest jumper in that events' history for the Beacons, behind Javonte Byrd who owns the other nine top-ten jumps.
 
Senior Michael Andrews grabbed a conference qualification in the Pole Vault, clearing 4.24m for the second-highest mark in NCU history behind his own school-record of 4.30m.
 
The final conference mark went to sophomore Logan Oakerman who will return to CCC in the shotput.
 
The Beacons will be back in action next weekend, traveling to compete in the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open.
 
Complete Results (CCC Qualifiers in Bold)
 
200m: Michael Andrews (24.03)
400m: Antonio Campos-Perez (51.67)
800m: Andy Martinez (1:59.64), Dan Carrier (2:02.81), Shawn Johnson (2:07.64), Josh McCluskey (2:08.40)
           Isaac Sanchez (2:08.59), Nicholas Delgado (2:13.17), Harley Gilpin (2:13.39), Josh Beecher (2:23.88)
1500m: Conner Covey (4:05.54), Dan Carrier (4:09.21)
5000m: Conner Covey (15:48.14), Carson Bain (15:59.00)
4x100m Relay: Delgado, Campos-Perez, McCluskey, Johnson (42.88)
4x400m Relay: Gilpin, Campos-Perez, Delgado, Johnson (3:28.11)
Pole Vault: Michael Andrews (4.24m)
Long Jump: Brevin Russnogle (6.37m)
Triple Jump: Brevin Russnogle (13.03m)
Shot Put: Logan Oakerman (12.07m)
Discus: Logan Oakerman (37.04m)