GOLDEN, Colo.  Western Colorado track and field put a close on its regular season schedule Wednesday at The Kit Mayer Classic, earning several new personal bests including Sammie Bretz' second-place finish in the women's high jump.

The event, hosted by Colorado School of Mines, was originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday but the expectation of bad weather in Golden on the weekend convinced the Orediggers to move the meet up to Wednesday.

KIT MAYER CLASSIC HIGHLIGHTS

• Western's performances at the Classic were dominated by its field event entrants, led by Bretz and the men's throwers.
• Bretz inched closer to the NCAA Division II provisional mark in the event (1.68 meters, 5 feet-6 inches) by bettering her previous personal best (PR), clearing a height of 1.66m (5-05.25) for her runner-up finish. Bretz had been tied for ninth place on the Mountaineers' top-10 outdoor rankings in the event at 1.65m (5-05.00) but now owns the No. 9 spot within the list on her own.
• Tyler Nelson garnered a pair of top-five finishes at the Classic, earning second place in the men's discus throw (46.80m/153-06) and fourth place in the hammer throw (51.63m/169-05).
• Also adding top-five finishes in the throws were Luke Wuesthoff in the mens' javelin (5th, 45.48m/149-02), Logan Butterfield in the hammer (5th, 48.85m/160.03 PR) and Karter Evans in the discus (5th, 42.11m/138-02). Butterfield added another PR with his eighth-place finish (40.17m/131-09) in the discus, and Evans picked up a PR with his seventh-place throw (47.15m/154-08) in the hammer.
• Also recording new PRs in these same events were Tim Franke in the discus (14.07m/134-09) and Tucker Kelly-Walsh in the hammer (45.54m/149-05).
• On the track, Treslynn Robinson (25.58 seconds) and Bella Miller (26.74) raced to top-five finishes in the women's 200-meter dash, and Bryce Lucas (11.22) crossed the finish in the 100 in second place. Robinson's time was a new PR.
• Camrin Dieke recorded the final PR of the afternoon by a Mountaineer, finishing seventh in the men's 400 with a time of 53.43. Teammate Zachary McMillan picked up a fifth-place in the event with a time of 51.44 while Dakota Merritt (51.61) squeezed between the two for sixth place.
• On the oval, Riley Howard added a fifth place in the men's 5,000m run with a 15:46.72 clocking.

UP NEXT
Western's men and women will travel to Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship meet, hosted by the Yellow Jackets at Lyle Hare Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 28-30.