Eastern’s men and women’s track and field competed in their final indoor meet at home Friday, before hosting the Ohio Valley Conference Track Championships next weekend.

The team had a total of nine first-place finishes.

Red-shirt-junior pole vaulter Jade Riebold won the women’s pole vault.

Riebold ran down the stretch to a silent audience in the bleachers, but when she cleared the height, Riebold was treated to a thunderous applause as she was coming down.

Riebold cleared a height of 13-feet, 11-inches on her first attempt. Soon she had the bar lifted to 14-feet, 2-inches, but Riebold was unsuccessful in clearing the height.

Riebold said being able to clear that height is her goal for the next meet.

Following their teammate on the scoreboard, senior and freshman pole valuters Abigail Schmitz and Annemarie Reid placed fourth and fifth in the meet, respectively.

Reid said Schmitz, Reid and herself are getting ready to peak for the end of the indoor season. Reid explained that her performance this meet was good, but she said that she’s expecting better results in the OVC Track Championships.

In the men’s pole vault, red-shirt-junior pole vaulter Mick Viken placed first in the meet.

Viken’s final successful jump came when he cleared a height of 17-feet, 4.5-inches.

After that, the pole vaulter tried his hand at 17-feet, 7-inches, but failed on each of his attempts.

Teammate freshman pole vautler Eric Gordon also placed in the top 10, taking third-place in the competition.

Gordon’s highest cleared height was 16-feet, 6.75-inches.

Sophomore jumper Maura Cummins took second in the women’s high jump. Cummins jumped a height of 5-feet, 5.25-inches.

On the track, red-shirt-senior sprinter Jacob Mitchell took first-place in the 60-meter dash, running a time of 6.85. Senior sprinter Steven Clark competed in the same event and took third-place, running a time of 6.90.

In the men’s mile, red-shirt-freshman distance runner Joe Calio took third.

Calio was in the middle of the pack for the better part of the race, but in the final laps he surged forward, finishing with a time of 4:18.11.

Distance runners Mike Hasslau, Max Gassmann, Victor De La Torre, Tyler Anderson, Dan Wooldridge and Pablo Ramirez competed in the men’s 3,000-meter run.

Ramirez led the pack from Eastern for the better part of the race but dropped out, leaving only five runners on the track.

The pack and their competitors pulled away and were strung out in the final four laps.

Hasslau finished the race in a time of 8:39.36. Gassmann, De La Torre, Anderson and Wooldridge also placed in the top 10, running 8:46.45, 8:49.59, 8:58.68, 9:19.00, and placing third, fourth, sixth and ninth, respectively.

Sophomore distance runner Chelsea Sondgeroth won the women’s 5000-meter run.

Sondgeroth ended up running a time of 19:09.23.

Sophomore distance runner Laura Magneson competed in the event as well and took third with a time of 19:31.85.

Jaime Lopez can be reached at 581-2812 or jlopez2@eiu.edu.