PULLMAN — Regyn Gaffney and Alissa Brooks-Johnson both had solid outings for Washington State University here Friday and Saturday at the Cougar Indoor Invitational track meet.
Brooks-Johnson, a junior from Pe Ell, won the women’s pentathlon on Friday in the first day of action at the Cougar Invite. She scored a career-best 4,101 points in the event — the third-best total in school history, and currently the 12th-best nationally — to secure the win.
The 2015 PAC-12 outdoor heptathlon champ ran the 60-meter hurdles in 8.81 seconds (second place), set a four-inch personal-record in the high jump at 5 feet, 9¼ inches (first), threw the shot put a personal-record 39-8½ inches (first), set another PR in the long jump at 18-4½ (second), and ran the 800 in 2 minutes, 19.8 seconds (first).
Gaffney, a freshman from Adna, won the 400 meters in a personal-record time of 58.97 seconds on Saturday, and joined Dominique Keel, Danielle Darden and Christiana Ekelem to win the women’s 4x400 relay in 3:51.49.
Gaffney edged out Central Washington University’s Ashley Harmon, who finished in 59.62, for first in the 400.
The Cougars are back in action on Friday and Saturday, at the Don Kirby Elite meet in Albuquerque and the Husky Classic at the University of Washington in Seattle.
