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WICHITA, Kan. -- Wichita State's
Breanne Borman won the Heptathlon with a personal best 5,640 points and
Ben Johnson won the Decathlon with 7,053 points in the two-day events Saturday at the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship.
The pair helped the Shockers to team point leads on both sides, including a 124-55 point lead for the women over current second-place Illinois State. For the men, WSU scored 100 points during the first two days to SIU's 66 points.
Borman was in second after Friday's four events with 3,362 points behind Nikki Larch Miller's 3,412, and on Saturday long jumped 18-11.75/5.78m, threw the javelin 139-11/42.66m and ran a personal best 2:23.44 in the 800 meters to win.
WSU's
Gavyn Yetter finished second with a personal-best 5,553 points, and Larch-Miller was third with 5,370. Shocker
Martiesha Caines was fourth with 5,295 points, also a career-best.
Johnson finished the 10-event competition with a 4:46.64 in the 1,500 meters after starting the day with a 14:44 in the 110 hurdles. He also threw the discus 129-2/39.38m, pole vaulted 13-10/4.22m and threw the javelin 131-0/39.33m. After the first day of the Decathlon on Friday, Johnson was in second after the first five events with 3,724 points, 122 points behind leader Jordan Wilkerson from Illinois State (3,846).
Competition continues Sunday with field events at 11:30 a.m., and final running events at 1 p.m. Sunday's ESPN3 telecast runs from 12:55 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
On Friday, WSU's women also claimed titles by
Alesa Frey in the pole vault and
Carlea Holt-Miles in the javelin. Frey set a personal best with a height of 13-3.75/4.06m that moved her into No. 5 all-time at WSU. Miles won the javelin for the second-straight year with a throw of 157-4/47.96m.
Aaron True won the javelin to become the first men's champion with a career-best throw of 229-03/69.88m which is also the seventh-best in Shocker history. Shockers
John Hoplin (210-11/64.29m),
Hunter Veith (182-02/55.53m) and
Kaden Griffin (179-11/54.85m) backed True at second, third and fourth, respectively.
Also for the Shocker women's team,
Jamesia Milton improved her WSU record in the hammer throw with a toss of 205-8/62.69m to finish second on the day and break her old record of 202-4/61.68m set earlier this year at the Texas Tech Red Raider.
Wichita State,
picked as the favorite, has won eight men's titles and nine women's titles since 1966. WSU's men won in 1966, 1972, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010 and 2016. The women won in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2016.
All three days of the meet are set for ESPN3 with Brad Wells, Jim Kirby and Mike Mahon calling the action. Sunday's ESPN3 telecast runs from 12:55 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Team Scores (through Two Days)
Women
1. Wichita State 124, 2. Illinois State 55, 3. UNI 47, 4. Indiana State 42, 5. SIU 33, 6. Missouri State 21, 7. Loyola 20, 8. Bradley 8, 9. Drake 1.
Men
1. Wichita State 100, 2. SIU 66, 3. UNI 60, 4. Illinois State 36, 5. Indiana State 21, 6. Drake 10, 6. Loyola 10, 8. Bradley 9.
