STORM LAKE – Chris Hawkins won the men’s long jump with the ninth-best leap in the nation to lead Coe during the first day of competition at the Iowa Conference Indoor Track Championships on Friday at Dennis Young Fieldhouse at Buena Vista University.

The Coe men scored 26 points for fifth place after Day 1 and the Coe women scored 13 points for eighth place.

Hawkins won the long jump with a leap of 23 feet, 1 3/4 inches and also took sixth place in the 60-meter hurdles in 1 minute, 33.14 seconds. Robbie Peters was third in the shot put at 48-3/4 and Alex McKee-Crow was fifth at 46-4.

Laura Bybee led the Coe women with a fourth-place showing in the pole vault with a leap of 10-4 1/4.

The meet continues Saturday.

WOMEN

Team scores – 1. Wartburg 76; 2. Loras 52; 3. Dubuque 39; 4. Central 27; 5. Simpson 25; 6. Luther 22; 7. Buena Vista 18; 8. Coe 13.

MEN

Team scores – 1. Central 51; 2. Dubuque 40; 3. Wartburg 33; 4. Loras 27; 5. Coe 26; 6. Simpson 21; 6. Luther 21; 8. Buena Vista 15.