Senior
Henry Baldwin and junior
Max Blackburn each posted an individual victory Thursday at the CSU-Pueblo Spank Blasing Track & Field Meet in Pueblo. The meet was originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday, but was pushed back one day due to possible poor weather this weekend.
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Baldwin continued his outstanding spring season by winning the high jump with a leap of 6'8.75", just one-quarter of an inch shy of his school record.
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Blackburn, meanwhile, captured the 3,000-meter steeplechase race with a time of 10 minutes, 5.06 seconds. Sophomore
Andrew West finished third in the race with a time of 11:04.83.
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Junior
Tony Calderon and senior
David Eik placed fifth and eighth, respectively, in the 5K. Calderon finished the race with a time of 16:07.20, while Eik ran it in 16:30.92.
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Other top-ten results for the Tigers on Thursday included freshman
Logan Henning (seventh in the pole vault), sophomore
Michael Gorman (eighth in the 400) and sophomore
Paul Olsen (ninth in the 800).
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CC's 4x400-meter relay team, consisting of freshmen
Lucas Cowan and
Max Perozek, along with sophomores Gorman and
Damon Hardwick, finished third in 3:36.59.
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The Tigers return to action next weekend, April 5-6, at the CU Invitational in Boulder, Colo.
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