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The Colorado State women’s and men’s track & field teams each finished second at the 2018 Mountain West Indoor Track & Field Championships after the third and final day of competition at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

The Colorado State women tallied 85 points en route to their second-place finish, while the CSU men scored 141 points for their runner-up finish. UNLV won the women’s title with 99 points and Air Force took the men’s crown with 206.5 points.

Highlighting individual performances on Saturday was that of CSU senior Mostafa Hassan, who unloaded a season-best throw of 67-8 (20.62m) to win the shot put by just under nine feet (Utah State’s David Hirschmann – 58-9.25/17.91m). Hassan was one of three scorers in the men’s weight throw, along with Austin Blaho (third – 56-7.5/17.2m) and Alex Blaho (fourth – 56-2/17.12m). The victory was Hassan’s third MW Indoor title and fifth conference shot put title overall.

Another headline performance for the Rams’ men on Saturday was Cole Rockhold‘s 4:02.13 in the mile. The junior placed behind only reigning NCAA champion Josh Kerr, who led Saturday’s race wire-to-wire. Rockhold’s time ranks second in meet history behind only Kerr’s, and converts to 3:56.85 when accounting for altitude. Joining Rockhold in the top five was Wayde Hall, who finished in 4:09.87, the No. 20 time in program history. In the women’s mile, Ali Kallner ran the No. 8 time on CSU’s all-time indoor list (4:52.55) to take seventh place. Roxy Trotter was the Rams’ top 800 meters runner, clocking the No. 8 time on CSU’s all-time indoor list (2:12.30) for fifth place.

In the hurdles, Colorado State had podium finishers on each of the men’s and women’s sides. Jalen Hunter placed second in the men’s 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.04, followed by Garrett Lane (8.29) in fourth and Nick Kravec (8.42) in eighth. On the women’s side, Destinee Rocker finished in third with a time of 8.37. Hunter was CSU’s first podium finisher in the men’s 60-meter hurdles since 2014, while Rocker was the Rams’ highest finisher in her respective event since 2008.

The top event for the Rams in the jumps on Saturday was the men’s triple. Three Rams scored, as Isa Bynum placed fourth (48-1.25/14.66m), Danny Baumgardt finished fifth (47-10.5/14.59m) and Dalten Fox came in seventh (46-42.5/14.13m). Bynum’s mark is 16th on CSU’s all-time indoor list, while Baumgardt’s is 19th. In the men’s high jump, Uche Obinnah scored for the Rams after clearing 6-8 (2.03m) for sixth place.

Among the top performers in the individual sprints for CSU on Saturday were quarter-milers Jasmine Chesson and Caleb Hardy. Chesson clocked a time of 55.32 in the women’s 400 final on Saturday, placing fourth at the meet and moving up to No. 3 in the event on CSU’s all-time indoor list. On the men’s side, Hardy ran the No. 9 time on CSU’s all-time indoor list (48.56) to finish in fifth. In the 4×400-meter relays, Colorado State placed second on the men’s side (3:13.71 – Julian Dulaney, Ronald Sayles, Blake Yount and Hardy) and fourth in the women’s race (Jessica Ozoude, Chesson, Annemarie Carlson, Michelle Gould).

In 60 meters competition, each of Marybeth Sant (sixth – 7.50), Ozoude (seventh – 7.60) and Lettia Wilson (eighth – 7.62) scored in the women’s race, while Ayo Sanusi (7.10) placed eighth in the men’s race. Sayles (seventh – 21.72) and Dulaney (eighth – 21.97) each scored in the men’s 200 meters, and Ozoude accounted for the final points scored by CSU sprinters in individual events with a sixth-place finish and time of 24.33 in the women’s 200.

The final individual events on the track were the men’s and women’s 3,000 meters, which featured four CSU scorers. Darby Gilfillan (9:42.88) placed seventh in the women’s 3,000 and Maximilliano Martinez (8:25.38) placed sixth in the men’s race, as each scored in their second distance event of the meet. Trent Powell (seventh – 8:25.68) and Luke Giugliano (eighth – 8:26.55) also scored in the men’s 3,000.

Rounding out the top performers in field events for CSU were Maria Muzzio and Aliya Simpson, who placed sixth each in the shot put and pole vault, respectively. Muzzio’s mark was 48-11.75 (14.93m) and Simpson’s was 12-6.75 (3.83m), the No. 4 pole vault mark on CSU’s all-time indoor list.