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ASU men's track and field dominates UA, women fall short


The ASU track and field team finished its regular season on Saturday, splitting the victory with rival UA.

The dual meet was the second of the season for the Sun Devils, and the men came away victorious.

Sprinter Ryan Milus led the ASU men to three first-place finishes.

Within a matter of just over an hour, the redshirt junior helped the men's 4x100-meter relay to a first-place finish before running away with the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

The team of Milus, redshirt freshman Devan Spann, senior Chris Burrows and junior Will Henry's time of 39.40 currently ranks No. 7 in the nation.

Milus would also go on to help himself with a top-10 qualifying time in the 100-meter dash and top-20 in the 200-meter dash.

His teammate Spann would finish runner-up to Milus in both events.

Redshirt senior distance runner Darius Terry missed a first-place finish in the men's 1500-meter race, but his time of 3:42.34 would be his career best and put him at No. 15 in the country.

Redshirt senior thrower Jordan Clarke won both the hammer throw and shot put. Clarke didn't originally intend to throw in the shot put, as he was going to rest his injured hand. But Clarke still had the better toss after just a few throws in the shot put.

The ASU men blew out UA with a 118-79 team victory.


Women fall short

The No. 8 Sun Devil women had their work cut out for them against the No. 3 Wildcats.

ASU's Chelsea Cassulo drew first blood, hurling an all-time NCAA dual meet record in the hammer throw with a toss of 69.52 meters.

"It felt great to come out and be very consistent and get another throw out close to my personal record," Cassulo said. "Some of the other competitors had personal record throws, so there was a lot of energy going during the competition."

Her attention now turns to the championship season.

"I just want to keep trusting my training, and keep doing what I have done all season," Cassulo said. "Breaking more records and getting on top of the podium are goals I am shooting for."

Fellow thrower redshirt junior Anna Jelmini won the discus with a throw of 57.38m after throwing 60.11 meters the day prior at the Triton Invitational.

Junior pole-vaulter Heather Arseneau leapt to a career best with a first-place vault of 4.09 meters.

Her teammate, fellow junior Shaylah Simpson, also had a great performance, finishing just behind Arseneau with a jump of 4.00 meters.

Senior multi-competitor Christabel Nettey made easy work of both the long and triple jump over the UA women to help ASU tack on some points.

"Personally, I expected a lot more from myself," Nettey said. "I was hoping to have a couple 21 foot jumps, but I was struggling on the runway."

Nettey says she'll be ready for Los Angeles and knows what she's capable of.

"I'm not too worried about it though ... I'm just going to put in a lot of technical work and focus in these next two weeks so that when I get to USC I can execute."

However, all the Sun Devil women athletes success wasn't enough to take the meet, as the Wildcat women would win 102-87.

Reach the reporter at msterrel@asu.edu or follow him on Twitter @ASUreporter_MT


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