Six Owls Win Individual Events at Sunshine Open

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Six Oregon Tech athletes picked up individual victories Saturday at the Westmont College Sunshine Indoor Open track and field meet, while All-American Seth Gretz opened his multi-events season with a second-place finish in the men's heptathlon.
 
Cindy Reed and Mallory Ward led a 1-2 finish for OIT in the women's 3,000-meter run, with Reed winning the race in 10 minutes, 30.70 seconds. Mark French won the men's 3,000 in 8:50.66.
 
Tech's other distances wins came from Susie Garza in the women's 1,000 (3:06.90) and Paul Wyatt in the men's one-mile run (4:30.93). Ricky Garcia won the men's 800 with a solid indoor time of 1:55.38.
 
Travis Thomas won the men's 400, an event in which Tech had three of the top four runners in the meet. Thomas won in 49.63, with teammates Josiah Stroup third in 51.53 and Angel Valdez fourth in 51.95.
 
Thomas also was second in the 200 and anchored OIT's 4x400 relay team which was runner-up to Fresno Pacific University. Stroup, Wyatt and Garcia also ran on the relay.
 
In the heptathlon, Gretz had a strong second day, including a win in the pole vault where he cleared 13 feet, 9¼ inches, to score 4,919 points in his runner-up effort. Vanguard's Winston Lawson, who had won all four of Friday's first-day events, won the heptathlon with 5,257 points..- 

Press release from Oregon Tech Athletics, Matthew Munhall

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