{"id":1319,"date":"2010-05-03T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-track-niners-finish-strong\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T05:01:00","slug":"lbsu-track-niners-finish-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-track-niners-finish-strong","title":{"rendered":"LBSU Track: Niners Finish Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; \">Report by LBSU<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Long Beach State track and field team continued its strong showing at the Asics\/Steve Scott Invitational, adding four more first-place finishes Sunday afternoon at Anteater Stadium.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matt Maldonado won the 1500-meter run as he clocked in with the second-fastest mark in school history. He finished the race in a lifetime-best 3:44.28.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Alex Freitas also claimed the 800m title in a season-best 1:49.84, while Jonathan Evans finished third overall at 1:53.42.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sam Jeter took runner-up honors in the 400m hurdles (51.44) and Nimrod Piggee placed fifth in the 110m hurdles (14.41). Spencer Phillips added a Big West qualifying mark of 15.30 in the short hurdle race, which was good enough for eighth place.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richard Crawford registered a lifetime-best 21.89 and Louis Ward had a season-low 22.10 for top 25 finishes in the 200m dash.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the field events, Alex Black took second in the high jump (6-08.75), while Cesar Puga led the 49er throwers with a third-place performance inthe discus (173-11). Puga was also LBSU\u2019s top finisher in the shot put as he tied for seventh with a distance of 50-00.50.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the women\u2019s side, Rachel Hammar won the shot put at 42-02, while claiming second in the discus (148-03). <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sara Macey also took top honors in the high jump with a lifetime-best 5-07.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Denise Nunez registered a personal-record 2:14.77 in the 800m as she placed eighth overall. Jennifer Rodriguez (4:34.37) and Missy Barclay (4:35.90) also had top five finishes in the 1500m.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kristen Kiefer led five 49ers in the 100m hurdles, taking seventh in a season-best 14.66 seconds.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Long Beach State returns to action next weekend as it opens the Big West Championships with the multi-events, May 7-8.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach State track and field team continued its strong showing at the Asics\/Steve Scott Invitational, adding four more first-place finishes Sunday afternoon at Anteater Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}