Big Sky Conference Championships - This Week in Bozeman

[kennethnoisewater]

As mentioned in other threads, the BSC Championships are happening in Bozeman currently. They started yesterday after a snow delay with the men's Decathlon and the women's Heptathlon.

Not surprisingly, the weather was just awful. Looked like there was close to 6" of snow on the ground late into the afternoon, with more coming down (temps were about 35 degrees). I haven't followed the multi's at any other schools, but for whatever reason, NAU doesn't have anyone participating. MSU only has one man and one woman, and they're both leading after day one.

Nicola Paletti took second in the 100, 3rd in the LJ, 3rd in the shotput, 1st in the high jump, and 2nd in the 400, and has a 40 point lead over Jed Smith from Weber, who is over 200 points ahead of 3rd place. I'm not sure how competitive he was going to be, but Landon Peterson looked like he hurt his hamstring in the LJ and didn't compete in anything else after that. It's hard to get warm and stay warm in that weather. The men still have the high hurdles, discus, pole vault, Javelin, and 1500M today.

Shelby Schweyen has a 52 point lead over Hanna Tait from Idaho. Shelby took 5th in the high hurdles, 1st in the high jump (with a PR of 5'7"), 4th in the shotput, and 2nd in the 200. The women still have to compete in the long jump, javelin, and 800M today.

Nice start for the Cats! I'll be there Friday and maybe Saturday to watch--should be beautiful weather by then and fun to see!

[kennethnoisewater]

Nicola has extended his lead in the Decathlon. He took 2nd in the high hurdles and 3rd in the discus. He's now leading by 82 with 3 events left.

Shelby is now in 2nd behind Hanna Tait. Tait won the high jump today, with javelin and the 800M left. Javelin results should be in any minute.

[kennethnoisewater]

Shelby needs a good showing in the javelin to win this thing, but Tait is running away with this event. She just threw 141' even though she came in with a PR of 124'. Shelby's best today (still 4 throws to go) is 104' and her PR is 109'.

**Edit**
I forgot they don't do finals in the heptathlon, so Shelby didn't have four more throws; she just had one more. Fortunately she did improve on her best of the day by a lot, as well as her PR, throwing a 35.59 (116' 9"), which put her up to 3rd place. Really big throw and important points for her to stay in 2nd overall, in front of Whitney Morrison from UM.

[kennethnoisewater]

First event is over for the women, and Shelby came in second. She ran a great 800 and led for about 760 meters of it but lost to Brooke Stayner of UM. It was good enough for her to stay in second, as Whitney Morrison finished 3rd in the 800 and 3rd overall.

So after 1 event, UM leads because they placed 3rd and 4th in the Hep, which got them 11 points. Idaho has 10 and MSU 8.

[kennethnoisewater]

Wow, big development on the men's side in the Pole Vault. Jed Smith from Weber is one of the favorites, and I think he was the heavy favorite to win the vault. He passed every height until 15' when everybody else was finished, then no-heighted. He was in second and was probably going to pass Nico, but got zero points and slid down to 4th place. Paletti is in first by over 350 points with the javelin and 1500 left.

[stevo]

Wow, big development on the men's side in the Pole Vault. Jed Smith from Weber is one of the favorites, and I think he was the heavy favorite to win the vault. He passed every height until 15' when everybody else was finished, then no-heighted. He was in second and was probably going to pass Nico, but got zero points and slid down to 4th place. Paletti is in first by over 350 points with the javelin and 1500 left.

Huge mistake by Weber State

[kennethnoisewater]

I'm not sure if Jed Smith is hurt or if he's mailed it in after his pole vault performance. I shouldn't make any assumptions, but it comes across as an arrogant move, not coming into the PV at a lower height. He's about a 160' javelin thrower but he threw 127' and scratched his final attempt on purpose. Paletti finishes 4th in the javelin, and Cody Teevens from EWU moves in a little closer overall, coming into the 1500 in a little while. If Paletti finishes ahead of Teevens, he should win the whole thing.

[kennethnoisewater]

Alright, a lot of posts for just one event haha, but it was fun to follow.

Nicola Paletti won the decathlon after taking 4th in the 1500. Just like UM on the women's side, Weber gets 11 points because they placed two athletes, and EWU has two athletes to get them 10, matching MSU's 10 from Paletti.

[CatBot]

Alright, a lot of posts for just one event haha, but it was fun to follow.

Nicola Paletti won the decathlon after taking 4th in the 1500. Just like UM on the women's side, Weber gets 11 points because they placed two athletes, and EWU has two athletes to get them 10, matching MSU's 10 from Paletti.

Thanks for the updates and keep 'em coming!

[TomCat88]

[CodyCat]

MSU has the best steeplechase team in the Nation!!! Thats truly unbelievable.

[TomCat88]

[TomCat88]

[kennethnoisewater]

Just got back from the meet. MSU men are winning by a lot, but that never means much with a day left...lots of finals tomorrow. Lots of good performances though.
MSU - 80
Weber - 48
NAU - 33
UM - 29
ISU - 25
EWU - 23
Sac - 15
Idaho - 14
PSU - 4
UNCU - 2

Still lots to shake out. NAU should score a bunch in the 100, maybe a few in the high hurdles, could win the 200 but they only have 1 in the finals, nobody in the finals of the 400, should score in the 400H, they have 2 of the best in the 800, a ton of guys in the 1500, bunch of guys in the 5k, best team in the 4x100 and one of the best in the 4x400, should win the hammer and shot. But you never know...MSU can show well and will need some of the studs from other teams to take away points from NAU in some of these events.

The women are currently leading by 2 over NAU and 5.5 over Weber. I don't think that's a big enough lead to hold off NAU though. Points-wise we're only a third of the way through it.

[kennethnoisewater]

As for individual results, it's always a little misleading to try and glean much from how people did in prelims of running events. Sometimes they do just enough to get to the finals, then sometimes a guy on the bubble is giving it everything and has the best time, then doesn't place in the finals.

In field events, obviously we went 1-2-6-8 in the steeple (22 points), 2-3-7 in the 10k (16 points), 6 and 8 in the discus for 4 points, 4 and 8 in the javelin for 5 points, 3rd in the LJ for 6, 1-T4-7 in the pole vault (Colby Wilson gold), and of course Nicola Paletti won the Decathlon.

On the women's side, we got a 3rd in the steeple for 6, 4-5-8 in the 10k for 10, 5th in the hammer for 4, T2 and T8 in the HJ for 7.5, 2-3 in the LJ for 14, and 2nd in the Heptathlon for 8. Sydney Brewster was a favorite coming into the shotput and scratched all three throws, so that hurts.

Weather was unbelievable...borderline hot! Not sure it was hot enough to really matter, because the home team would have a huge advantage for recovery if there was any level of heat exhaustion.

[TomCat88]

[TomCat88]

He took third in the event.

[TomCat88]

[TomCat88]

Hey @kennethnoisewater any team score updates?

[TomCat88]