BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION – Six Aggies earned eight total spots in the quarterfinal round on day two of the NCAA West First Round at E.B. Cushing Stadium on Friday. Highlighting the day was the sprint duo of Jasmine Montgomery and Camryn Dickson who each advanced in two events.
 
The Aggies started the day off on a high note in the 100m hurdles, as Jaiya Covington and Jasmine Harmon earned automatic qualification to Saturday’s quarterfinals. Covington headlined the duo, winning the fifth heat of the event in 12.96, while Harmon advanced as the third qualifier in the opening heat with a personal-best time of 13.13.
 

Dickson and Montgomery will join their teammates in action on Saturday, advancing to the 100m quarterfinals after each winning their respective heats. Dickson posted a personal-best mark of 11.06, the fifth-fastest time of the day and the fourth-fastest time on the A&M all-time performers list. Montgomery followed suit crossing the line in 11.10, the new career mark was good for seventh on the night and ranks fifth on the A&M all-time list.
 

The Maroon & White added the third pair of automatic qualifiers to the quarterfinals as Jaydan Wood and Kennedy Wade notched top three times in each of their heats of the 400m. Wood used a personal-best mark of 51.47 to move into eighth in A&M’s record book, while Wade added a time of 52.49 to advance.
 
Doubling down on their earlier success, both Montgomery and Dickson ensured their second quarterfinal spot of the day in the 200m. Montgomery paced the event with the fastest time of the night, matching her career best of 22.39 While Dickson placed second in her heat with 22.87.
 
Next Up
The Aggies return to E.B. Cushing Stadium tomorrow for the third day of the NCAA West First Round.
 

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Philomath High School senior Carson Winder earned a spot on the Oregon High School Boys Volleyball Association’s all-state first team following last weekend’s 4A tournament in Hillsboro.

Winder, outside hitter-middle blocker, helped the Warriors in their first-ever boys volleyball season to a 17-8 record, league co-championship and sixth-place trophy at state.

The other Philomath players also received recognition on the all-state honorable mention list — senior libero Raul Sanchez, senior setter Isac Marcelo and junior opposite hitter/defensive specialist Mayson Wallace.

Cascade senior Romel McCloud was named the 4A championship’s Most Valuable Player. McCloud plans to play collegiately at Maryland Eastern Shore. Molalla’s Lauree Nelzen was named Coach of the Year.

Joining Winder on the first team were Estacada’s Dallan Champma and Isaac Crandall, Crook County’s Hoyt Kudlac, Molalla’s Chester Smith, Cascade’s Zeben McCloud and Newport’s Becker Wills.

Philomath went 1-2 at the tournament with the win coming in the consolation bracket over Marshfield. The Warriors dropped matches to Cascade in the first round and to Newport in the fourth-/sixth-place match.

Girls track and field chasing history

In the history of Philomath High athletics, no sports program has ever won four straight state titles. The Warriors could pull off that feat this weekend in girls track and field at the Class 4A State Championships in Eugene. It would also be a first among 4A schools.

The meet begins Friday at 9 a.m. and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Hayward Field.

“As of this date, no other girls 4A track and field team has won the state team title in the new Hayward Field,” Coach Joe Fulton wrote Thursday in an email to his team. “We plan to keep it that way.”

Here’s a rundown of the qualifiers for the girls:

• Janice Hellesto — 4-by-100, 100, 200, long jump
• Natalie Dunn — 4-by-100, 4-by-400, 400
• Kya Bolton — 4-by-100
• Petra Hernandez — 4-by-100, 300 hurdles
• Reagan Nuno — 800, 4-by-400, triple jump, 4-by-100 alternate
• Cassidy Smart — 1500, 3000, 4-by-400
• Adele Beckstead — 1500, 3000, 4-by-400
• Anneka Steen – High jump
• Hanna McDaniel – High jump
• Aspen Russell — Pole vault
• Hailey Eckhold – Triple jump
• Melea Lattin – 4-by-400 alternate
• Brooke McDaniel — 4-by-400 alternate
• Jordyn Hood — 4-by-100 alternate

The boys qualified several athletes as well and expect to be in contention for a top-six finish, possibly even a top-four trophy. Here’s a list of the qualifiers for the boys:

• Warwick Bushnell — 200, 400, 4-by-100, 4-by-400
• C.D. Nuno — 100, 200, 4-by-100, 4-by-400
• Dreyton Nuno — High jump, 4-by-100, 4-by-400
• Leo Pausch — 1500, 3000
• Kaden Howard — 4-by-100, long jump, triple jump, 4-by-400 alternate
• Lukas Hernandez — 3000, 1500, 4-by-400,
• Sam Hernandez — High jump
• Josiah Peters — Javelin
• Jamin Peters — Discus
• Blake Hauck — Pole vault
• Tiernan Bovbjerg — 4-by-400 alternate
• Galen Murch — 4-by-100 alternate
• Bryce Hruska — 4-by-100 alternate

For those planning to attend, tickets can be purchased in advance online ($9 for students, $18 for adults). 

Baseball team headed to Scappoose

The PHS baseball team will face a tough test on the road Friday with a trip to Scappoose in the quarterfinals of 4A playoffs. The sixth-seeded Warriors advanced with a 2-0 win over Tillamook while the third-seeded Indians moved on with a 4-1 victory over Stayton.

The first pitch has been scheduled for 5 p.m.

As reported in a story on the first-round victory, Philomath will be trying to improve at the plate while continuing to perform well on the mound. Coach Levi Webber threw junior Caleb Babcock vs. the Cheesemakers and if he continues to follow the rotation, senior Joe Barnes would be up next. Junior Wylie Griffith is also a possibility.

Philomath (21-6-1) and Scappoose (22-5) had played five common opponents this season and the Indians have fared slightly better. Against Marist Catholic, Gladstone, Junction City, Tillamook and Stayton, the Indians had a 7-1 record. Against those same schools, the Warriors had a 5-2 record.

(Brad Fuqua is publisher/editor of the Philomath News. He can be reached at News@PhilomathNews.com).

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NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—CSUN seniors Dorottya Telek and Anna Pal closed their respective collegiate careers with All-America Honorable Mention accolades on Friday, as announced the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches. 

Both natives of Budapest, Hungary, Telek and Pal join Marisa Young (2012-15) as the only four-time All-Americans in CSUN Water Polo history. 

“When I met Dodi (Telek) and Nusi (Pal) six years ago I never would have thought in my wildest dreams they’d have such prolific careers at CSUN,” said head coach Matt Warshaw. “They have exceeded every expectation, both in and out of the pool and are true Matadors. Leaving here with multiple degrees, four-time All-American selections, re-writing the record books, countless memories and lifelong friendships are more than all three of us could have hoped for.”

Telek’s fourth All-American award caps an exceptional and historic Matador career. She would lead the Big West for a fourth consecutive season in goals while shattering her own single-season record with a remarkable 104 goals on an efficient 58.1 percent shooting. Named to the All-Big West Second Team, Telek would also lead CSUN with 18 field blocks and 88 exclusions drawn while ranking second on the team in assists (45) and steals (47). In addition, the senior center scored once in at least 26 of 29 matches and recorded multiple-goal efforts 23 times. 

Telek leaves CSUN as the all-time record holder in career goals with 376 (147 more than second place). She also holds the Matador record for career field goal percentage (.537) and exclusions drawn (367) and ranks fifth in field blocks (61). On the single-season goals list, Telek is ranked first (104, 2025), second (101, 2023), third (84, 2024) and fifth (77, 2022) in CSUN history. She is also the record holder for the most goals in a single game with nine, which she reached on three separate occasions in her career. 

Pal would have another outstanding season in the pool, recording a career-high and a Big West-best 67 assists. An All-Big West Honorable Mention, the senior led the Matadors with a personal-best 51 steals while she was second on the team in goals scored at 59 and points at 126. Pal scored once in 23 of 29 total matches and finished with 20 multiple-scoring games. 

Pal also made Matador history this season by breaking the program’s all-time assist record and finishing with 209 total helpers. On the scoring side, Pal moved up to sixth place on CSUN’s all-time career goals list with 200 tallies while she climbed into ninth place on the field blocks list (34). Pal will also forever be known as the founding member of the 200-goal and 200-assist club in school history, reaching the milestone in the Matadors’ final match of the season. 

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Hamilton College’s Keira Rogan ’28 (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Schuylerville Central School) earned 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field All-America honors on Tuesday, May 27 when the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released the complete list.

Athletes of USTFCCCA-member institutions who finished in the top eight of their respective individual events or as part of a relay at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships were first team all-Americans. Those who finished ninth through 16th individually or ninth through 12th as part of a relay made the second team.

Rogan collected a first team award after she took third place out of 12 athletes in the final of the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at SPIRE Academy in Geneva, Ohio, on May 23. She eclipsed her own team record by more than three seconds with a time of 10:24.46.

This was Rogan’s third all-America honor in her first year with the Continentals. She also made the first team for finishing fifth in the 3,000-meter run at the NCAA indoor championships, and she was a cross country all-American after ending up in 15th place out of 290 runners at the 2024 NCAA championships.

Rogan is the first Hamilton all-American in women’s outdoor track & field since Maggie Hanson ’02 finished in fifth place in the 10,000-meter run at the 2002 NCAA championships.

 

RIO DI JANEIRO – Texas A&M volleyball’s Logan Lednicky was named to the U.S. Women’s National Team for the Volleyball Nations League, the organization announced Friday.
 
Lednicky joins a star-studded group of 14 athletes to represent the United States in Brazil for the first round of pool play for the Volleyball Nations League. The team traveling to Rio will play four matches versus Italy, Brazil, Czech Republic and South Korea.
 
“The past few weeks training in the USA gym has been such an amazing learning experience for me,” Lednicky said. “I am so blessed to be chosen for week one of VNL and can’t wait to represent the U.S. on an international stage for the first time.”
 
This will be Lednicky’s first time representing the Red, White and Blue at an international competition, and she is the first Aggie since Stacy Sykora in 2011 to compete for the U.S. Senior National Team.
 
“I couldn’t be prouder of Logan for being named to the U.S. Women’s National Team’s VNL roster,” head coach Jamie Morrison said. “Having spent time on the international stage, I know how special and formative that experience can be. Logan has earned this opportunity through relentless hard work, humility and an unwavering competitive spirit. Now the rest of the world gets to see what we’ve known at Texas A&M—she’s ready for this moment.”
 

Lednicky is coming off an outstanding junior campaign, as she was named an AVCA Second Team All-American and guided the team to its first NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 berth since 2019. She capped off the year with the second-highest kills per set total (4.47) and third-highest kill total (492) in a single season in A&M history during the rally-scoring era. The Sugar Land, Texas, native recorded 20+ kills in eight matches last season, including three straight in the Maroon & White’s three NCAA Tournament fixtures, a feat only two athletes in the tournament accomplished.
 
Volleyball Nations League is the world’s premier annual international indoor volleyball tournament. The top 16 teams in the world play four matches a week for three weeks of preliminary competition. The top eight teams at the end of the preliminaries will go to the final round.
 
United States Schedule
June 4^th vs. Italy – 12 p.m. CT
June 5^th vs. Brazil – 7 p.m. CT
June 6^th vs. Czech Republic – 7 p.m. CT
June 8^th vs. South Korea – 3 p.m. CT
 
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DAVIS, Calif. – senior Kelly Hungerford and sophomore Bridget Miller have been named as 2025 Association of College Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-Americans, raking in the Honorable Mention Title.
 
Miller has also been labeled Big West All-Conference Second Team following the 2025 season, highlighting her efforts from the center position. Miller led the team in goals with 47 on the season, and added 8 assists, 15 steals, and drew a whopping 57 exclusions. She totaled up fifteen multi-goal games of the 28 played, scoring 4 against Cal Baptist, UC Merced, and Cal State Fullerton. A marksman in her craft, Miller has maintained a perfect shooting rate in the game five times this season as well.
 
Hungerford scooped up her first Big West title, reining in the Honorable Mention for her final season at Davis. She led the team in assists with 47 on the season; also breaking the Davis career assist record, now crowned at the top with 154. She has also put up 20 goals, 45 steals, 14 drawn kickouts, and 14 field blocks. Hungerford had a monumental game versus UC Irvine, where she found the back of the net five times and added two assists to her stat line in the one game alone. She aided her teammates’ offense and made five assists on two separate occasions: versus Pacific and Cal State Monterey and has had five multi-goal games this season.
 
These are the pair’s first ACWPC awards collected in their collegiate careers.