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Busy weekend at Mt. SAC Relays ends with a pair of victories for the Oregon women

chris hansen, register-guard
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Oregon's Alysah Hickey competes in the women's long jump on her way to victory during the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene May 14, 2022.
Oregon's Alysah Hickey competes in the women's long jump on her way to victory during the Pac-12 Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene May 14, 2022.

Alysah Hickey and Jorinde van Klinken capped off Oregon track and field's run at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., with victories Saturday afternoon in the long jump and discus, respectively.

Competing in her signature event for the first time this season, Hickey reached a personal-record 22 feet, ¼ inch and moved from fourth to third on the program's all-time list and became the third UO woman with a wind-legal measure beyond 22 feet.

School record holder (22-5¼) and longtime professional Jasmine Todd was second on Saturday at 21-9½ and former Duck Rhesa Foster was third at 21-2½.

Van Klinken won the discus with a throw of 211-5.

Though he was on the entry list earlier in the week, sprinter Micah Williams didn't race in the men's 100. Last season he ran a world-leading 9.83 seconds to win the event.

Oregon's top women's sprinter Jadyn Mays recorded an all-conditions best of 11.09 for a third-place finish in the 100. The wind reading (+2.2) was just over the allowable limit. Mays also placed fifth in the 200 with a time of 22.88 and joined Aaliyah McCormick, Shaniya Hall and Ella Clayton on the 4x100 relay team that ran 43.72 to finish third.

Individually, McCormick ran a PR 13.03 to finish third in the 100 hurdles and moved from sixth to third on the program's all-time list.

In the elite section of the women's triple jump, Lexi Ellis recorded a PR jump of 44-7½ to finish in second. Shelby Moran threw a season-best 216-11 in the women's hammer and became the No. 3 performer in program history.

Also Saturday at the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, Calif., freshman Klaudia Kazimierska competed for the first time since the NCAA Indoor championship meet and finished fifth in the women's 1,500 with a time of 4:11.15 to become the seventh-fastest performer in UO history.

On Friday during the Mt. SAC Relays, Jett Kinder posted a win in the men's javelin with a throw of 224-0 — a PR of nearly 13 feet.

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