College track and field: VU records fall

AZUSA - Heptathlete Melody Strauss and high jumper Tanya Hanson

finished third, while Rachel Fikse and the women’s 400-meter relay team

broke school records to highlight Vanguard University’s participation in

the Golden State Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships

Saturday at Azusa Pacific.

Fikse’s discus throw of 119-10 1/2 bettered her own school record by more

than four feet, while the 400 relay quartet of Rachel Pearson, Shayna

Hauptli, Newport Harbor High product Autumn Puro and Hanson went 51.34 to

break a two-year-old Vanguard standard.

Pearson, Hauptli, Maribel Delgado and Puro combined to finish third in

the 1,600 relay with a season-best 4:06.62.

Hanson went 4-11 to earn a bronze medal and missed the school triple jump

record by 1 1/2 inches with a leap of 33-8, a personal record by a foot.

Hauptli was fifth in the 400, Delgado was fifth in the 800 and Darriann

Baeder was sixth in the pole vault for the Vanguard women, who finished

seventh as a team.

Josh Schultz was sixth in the 800 for the Vanguard men’s team, which

finished eighth.

Azusa Pacific won the men’s title and Point Loma Nazarene won the women’s

crown.