Saint Martin’s University senior Shannon Porter was named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week after setting school and meet records in the 3,000 meters at Washington State’s WSU Indoor Open on Saturday.
The Hockinson High School graduate’s time was 10 minutes, 10.44 seconds.
She won by nearly six seconds, breaking the meet record of 10:15.95 set by Central Washington’s Katie Hummel in 2007.
Porter also smashed her own school record in the event by more than 19 seconds. Her previous standard was 10:29.64.
Porter currently sits sixth on the GNAC top-times list and is 24th overall this season in NCAA Division II.
Speaking of Porter and SMU teammate Mikel Smith, who won the high jump and was named GNAC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week, Saints coach Jim Brewer told the website smusaints.com: “Both Mikel and Shannon put in the work over Christmas break, and it showed this weekend at the WSU Open. We are planning on great things happening this year.”
Basketball
Bowen siblings each put up big numbers
Western Washington University senior center Blake Bowen scored a career-high 24 points Tuesday to lead the Vikings to a 104-60 road victory over Simon Fraser in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Bowen’s sister Brooke, a senior guard/forward at Chico State University of California, scored a season-high 17 points Saturday in the Wildcats’ 78-62 victory over Simpson University.
Both are graduates of Skyview High School who played at Clark College before their current schools.
Blake Bowen was 9 of 12 from the field in Tuesday’s win, including 5 of 7 from 3-point range. He is averaging 5.2 points and 3.1 rebounds a game.
Brooke Bowen, the Wildcats’ leading rebounder as a junior, is averaging 10.1 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.4 steals a game for Chico State (8-9, 3-8 California College Athletic Association).
Gymnastics
Sac State’s McCartney leads Hornets to win
Sacramento State senior Kalliah McCartney placed first in vault and beam, tied for first in bars and won the all-around with her highest total of the season as the Hornets won a dual competition Saturday at Seattle Pacific.
Vancouver’s McCartney, a graduate of CAM High School in Battle Ground who trained at Multnomah Athletic Club of Portland, scored 39.250 points — including a 9.875 on bars — for the 13th all-around victory of her collegiate career.
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