Mid-Columbia sports briefs: Still wins Big Sky pole vault

EWU’s Still wins pole vault at Big Sky Championships

Eastern Washington freshman Larry Still (Richland) won the pole vault at the Big Sky Championships on Friday in Bozeman, Mont.

Still won the event with a mark of 17 feet, 3/4 inches. Teammate Nick Stearns was third.

EWU senior Kaytlyn Coleman (Kennewick) placed second in the weight throw at 65- 1/2.

▪ San Diego State freshman Marissa Berry (Southridge) finished third in the pole vault (13 feet, 1 1/2 inches) at the Mountain West Indoor Championships on Friday in Albuquerque, N.M.

The mark was the ninth best in SDSU indoor history.

Weightlifting

After a six-month wait, it was confirmed that Joshua Spaeth set a Guinness World Record in Kennewick for most weight squat lifted in one minute.

Spaeth set the record of 11,101.2 pounds (5,035.42 kilograms) at RAB Fitness on Aug. 15.

“Joshua got the idea to attempt the record when he almost broke it in competition the previous year,” the Guinness website said.

Baseball

Trek Stemp (Kennewick) singled in Washington State’s 3-2 win over Houston Baptist on Friday in Edinburg, Texas.

Stemp went 4-for-5 and scored WSU’s only run in a 3-1 loss to UT Rio Grande Valley on Thursday at the Al Ogletree Classic.

Stemp, who has had a hit in every game this season, leads WSU (2-4) with a .417 batting average (10-for-24).

Swimming

Seattle University senior Nick Connors (Richland) finished second in the “C” final and 18th overall in the men’s 500-yard freestyle Thursday at the WAC Swimming & Diving Championships in Houston.

Connors was timed in 4 minutes, 38.28 seconds, nine-hundredths of a second behind “C” final winner Bryant Fascio of Cal State Bakersfield.

This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 9:09 PM with the headline "Mid-Columbia sports briefs: Still wins Big Sky pole vault."