PHOTO BY KELLEN JENKINS
Last Saturday, freshman decathlon runner Tony Granillo placed second and junior Cole Davis placed fourth in Division II for Emporia State in the decathlon as the Hornets took an early lead in the Papa John’s DII Challenge at Welch Stadium.
The Hornets were in first place ahead of Central Missouri by three points after leading one event heading into Saturdays match up.
“Central Missouri is one of our rivals so it is always good to come out and compete against them,” Granillo said. “Yesterday I came in leading by a few couple hundred points. I did pretty well in the hurdles. I was the leading in first seven events then pole vault kind of killed me, and that is what put me behind.”
Davis came into the Saturday’s event with an injured ankle but remained competitive and saw results.
“It was a great competition,” Davis said. “The highlights for me were that I won the high jump and got second in the javelin I feel good in everything I did.”
The Hornets have 14 total meets this season with two of them in Welch Stadium, the second of which is the match up coming at conference.
“It was our home turf so it feels like we had a little bit more advantage,” Davis said. “So that is always good when you have that on the back of your mind. We were a little weak in the throws today so we are definitely going to have to work on our throws a little bit and a little weak in the pole vault so we know we got to work on those for the next couple weeks before conference.”
The Hornets earned one of the automatic qualifiers and six of the provisional marks, led again by Josh Honeycutt. The indoor national champion won the triple jump with an automatic mark of 50-10 and went 23-06 to provisional and place second in the long jump. Anne Carlson won the women’s heptathlon competing with 4,860 points.
Northwest Missouri’s Emily Churchman finished second and was the top collegiate placer with a provisional qualifying mark of 4,719 points. Heather Miller of St. Cloud State was third with 4,588 points to provisionally qualify and move into eighth place in the national rankings. Jade Lippman of Wayne State Nebraska was the final provisional qualifier, scoring 4,416 to rank 14th nationally.
The Hornets will compete April 16 at Kansas University in the Kansas Relays.
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