Lumberjacks Wrap Up Regular Season at Desert Heat Classic

TUCSON, Ariz. – The Desert Heat Classic has come to an end, along with the Northern Arizona track & field program regular season. The Lumberjacks used this meet to fine tune before Big Sky Championships in two weeks and came away with 24 conference scoring marks. 
 
Men's and women's throws had quite the day. 
 
The women's discus featured junior Matilde Roe and freshman Carly Watts. Roe currently owns the top discus throw in the Big Sky, but threw 55.27-meters on Saturday, which falls directly after her number one mark. 
 
Watts threw her first discus of the season, measuring 46.14-meters, which lands eight on the league leaderboard. 
 
As for the men, senior Parker Joens threw 53.09-meters, which would qualify for third-best in the Big Sky, but Joens already occupies second place. 
 
Sophomore CJ McMullen, currently seventh in the league, threw 52.99-meters, leaping up the rankings list into the fourth scoring position. 
 
Hammer throw saw two top-eight conference marks, one coming from the men's side and the other from the women's 
 
Sophomore Will Beaudry, currently third in the Big Sky, threw 58.82-meters, a seventh-place mark in the conference. 
 
Meanwhile, freshman Kimberly Buchanan threw 54.85 to qualify for the sixth-best mark in the league, although Buchanan already owns second in the Big Sky. 
 
The shot put included three men and one woman who threw conference scoring marks. 
 
Joens, currently second in the conference, threw 17.99-meters on Saturday, which ranks fourth in the Big Sky. Senior Nicholas Coghill, the third-place position holder, finished immediately after, throwing 17.91-meters to also gain the fifth-best mark in the league. 
 
Sophomore Jake Arnold measured 16.96-meters, which sneaks into eighth place on the conference leaderboard.
 
On the women's side, Roe, currently third, threw 14.13-meters, to also earn the sixth best measurement in the Big Sky. 
 
The sprinters found success today as well. 
 
Freshman Kiana Kai holds the fourth-best time and the second-best time in the Big Sky for the women's 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles respectively. 
On Saturday, Kai ran 14.32 in the women's 100-meter hurdles, which also grabs eighth place in the Big Sky; Kai's time of 1:01.29 in the women's 400-meter hurdles maintains her second place ranking in the Big Sky. 
 
Senior Carter Bracken achieved a similar feat, as Bracken currently holds third in the Big Sky in the men's 400-meter hurdles, and fourth in the men's 110-meter hurdles. 
 
However, this weekend Bracken ran 52.67 in the men's 400-meter hurdles which qualifies just behind Bracken on the leaderboard as the fourth-best time; His time of 14.14 maintains his current fourth place position in the men's 110-meter hurdles. 
 
The women's 200-meter saw senior Miracle Onyemaobi run 24.47, to slide into fifth position in the Big Sky, although Onyemaobi already owns the second-best time. 
 
Senior Erick Thompson Jr. moved from ninth into scoring position for the men, after running 48.94 in the men's 400-meter race. 
 
The relay teams also ran conference scoring times. 
 
The NAU men's 4x100-meter relay currently holds third in the Big Sky, and the women's 4x400-meter relay occupies first; this weekend, the men's relay team, ran 41.45, the sixth-best time in the conference while the women's 4x100-meter team ran 3:51.87, the seventh-best time. 
 
Freshman jumpers Kenashalee Kerr, Jack Normand, and Mitchell Effiing posted top-eight conference marks as well as Junior Jenna Figueroa. 
 
Effing, currently third on the list for men's long jump in the Big Sky, measured 7.49 in Tucson, which would earn fourth place on the conference leaderboard. 
 
Meanwhile, Kerr, Figueroa, and Normand hit their marks in the men's and women's triple jump.
 
Kerr maintained her sixth place conference position, jumping 12.08-meters, while Figueroa, currently third on the leaderboard, jumped 11.99-meters to qualify for eighth in the league as well. 
 
The distance squad hit their stride in the men's and women's 800-meter race. 
 
Senior Ryan Lanley hold the top conference time right now, but ran 1:51.12 this weekend, to additionally grab the fifth-best time. 
 
As for the women, junior Melanie Loff, also the current owner of a number one slot, ran a time of 2:06.30 on Saturday, qualifying as the second-place holder as well; freshman Maggi Congdon finished directly after Loff, with a time of 2:06.95, and currently earning second place in the conference. 

The Lumberjacks will compete at the Big Sky Conference Championships begining May 12.