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BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana State University Billings Track and Field teams are headed to Spokane, Wash. this Friday and Saturday, Apr. 11 and 12 for the Seventh Annual War against the Region Meet.
 
MSU Billings will compete for the first time in Spokane at the meet hosted by the Community Colleges of Spokane. 
 
The meet will be scored with dual-meet scoring.  On team will consist of schools from Washington including: Community College of Spokane, Central Washington University, North West University, Gonzaga, Saint Martin's University, Seattle University, Washington State, Western Washington University, Eastern Washington University, and Whitworth University.  The other team will consist of regional schools from the states of Idaho, Montana, and Oregon.  These schools include: Carroll College, Eastern Oregon, Treasure Valley Community College, Lewis-Clark State, Northwest Nazarene University, University of Idaho, University of Great Falls, and Montana State University Billings.
 
Head Coach Dave Coppock is looking forward to the meet.  This is will be the third meet for the teams.  So far this season, three student-athletes have met the automatic qualifying marks set for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships taking place in May.  Coach Coppock is hoping his teams will achieve more qualifying marks at this meet, the largest event of the season.
 
"This will be a fairly large meet with some very good competition, close to 1,000 student-athletes are registered for the meet," Coach Coppock said.  "At this point in the season we're starting to focus in on the events we need to get qualifying marks and those we think we'll be competing in at the GNAC Championships."
 
While some student-athletes have met their provisional marks, at this meet some athletes will be competing for the first time in their primary events. 
 
"Our 5,000 meter runners need to push their times down a bit to either qualify or improve their previous qualifying marks," Coach Coppock stated.  "For example, Drew Galahan will be running his best event, the 800 meters, for the first time this spring. We've been running him in the 1500 in the earlier meets to work on his strength and endurance, so that will be one key event for us. We need to improve our men's 4x400 meters relay to ensure a spot at conference, as well."
 
Due to the size of the meet and the schools competing, the format will be set-up differently than the teams' previous meets.
"The meet format will be fun and different," Coach Coppock explained.  "The Washington schools will all score as one team against a team comprised of the Montana-Idaho-Oregon team in a dual scoring format. I think it'll be a great experience for our team."
 
Also, competing this week on Wednesday, in a bid to work on their times Coach Nick Collins took a small group of athletes to Idaho State to compete in the Bengal Multi-events.  At the Bengal Decathlon and Heptathlon, Hope Reid is competing in the women's heptathlon and Cameron Stanek and Donald Hamm will be in the men's decathlon
 
WAR VII
Northwest Scoring Clash – Washington vs. Idaho, Montana and Oregon
 
CC of Spokane, Central Washington, North West University, Gonzaga, Saint Martin's, Seattle University, Washington State, Western Washington University, Eastern Washington University, and Whitworth University
VS.
Carroll College, Eastern Oregon, Treasure Valley CC,  Lewis-Clark State, Northwest Nazarene, University of Idaho, University of Great Falls, and Montana State Billings
 
April 11-12, 2014
Hosted by: Community Colleges of Spokane
Site: Spokane Falls Community College
 
Scoring
We will score this as a Washington (WSU, CWU, Whitworth, Gonzaga, Seattle U, SMU, NWU and Spokane) vs. the "WORLD" Oregon (EOU, WP and TVCC), Idaho (University of Idaho, Northwest Nazarene, and LCSC) and Montana (MSU-Billings, Carroll College and University of Great Falls) dual and we will combine the scores of the "two" teams separately by gender.
·         It will be scored 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 & relays 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We will also provide a DI score.
·         Best 8 marks will score
·         There will be two heats max of the 400 and 1600 relays and they will be seeded by their 2014 best performance as per Direct Athletics. If there is an open lane we can discuss filling it. In the case of only 9 teams entering one of the relays we will only run one heat. No second teams allowed.
 
 
 WAR 7 – WA vs. OR/MT/ID – SCHEDULE
 
Field Events – Friday, April 11, 2014 (NIGHT)
 
3:00pm              Men's Hammer (3F), Women (3F) to follow
7:00pm              Men's 10K and Women's 10K to follow

Track and Field Events – Saturday, April 12, 2014
 
Field Events
9:00am              Women's Discus (2F), Men (3F) to follow
10:00am    Women's Javelin (2F), Men (2F) to follow
10:15am    Men's Long Jump (3F), Triple Jump (2F) to follow
                Women's Long Jump (2F), Triple Jump (1F) to follow
Women's Pole Vault "Flight 1" (under 11'-Bar starts at 9'0")
·         Women's Pole Vault "Flight 2" (11' above) to follow "B" bar starts 10'6"
·         Men's Pole Vault (start at 11') to follow Women's "Flight 2"
11:00am    Men's High Jump
1:00pm (apprx.)    Women's to follow Men's
2:00pm      Men's Shot Put (3F) will follow Discus
                Women's Shot Put (2F)
 
Track Events – Note: Women will go first and we will not get more than 15:00 ahead of schedule. Also, this is only a tentative time schedule. Athletes must be checked-in 30:00 minutes prior to their event!!!!
 

Time and Event		Time and Event
9:00am              Women's 5k "Section 1"		2:05pm      Men's 800m (3H)
9:30am              Men's 5K "Section 1"		2:50pm      Men's 400m Hurdles (3H)
9:50am      Women's 1500 "Section 1"		3:10pm      Women's 200m (5H)
10:00am    Men's 1500 "Section 1"		3:25pm      Men's 200m (5H)
10:10am    Women's 3K Steeplechase "Section 1"		3:45pm      Women's 5K "Section 2"
10:30am    Women's 3K Steeplechase "Section 2"		4:10pm      Men's 5K "Section 2"
10:50am    Men's 3K Steeplechase "Section 1"		4:35pm      Women's 1600m Relay (2H)
11:05am    Men's 3K Steeplechase "Section 2"		4:50pm      Men's 1600m Relay (2H)
11:25am    W-400m Relay (1H)
11:35am    M-400m Relay (2H)
11:45am    Women's 1500 "Section 2"
11:50am    Women's 1500 "Section 3"
12:00pm    Men's 1500 "Section 2"
12:05pm    Men's 1500 "Section 3"
12:15pm    100M HH (2H)
12:25pm    110M HH (3H)
12:40pm    Women's 400m (4H)
12:55pm    Men's 400m (5H)
1:10pm      Women's100m (3H)
1:25pm      Men's 100m (4H)
1:45pm      Women's 800m (3H)
2:35pm      Women's 400m Hurdles (2H)