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Utah State’s Logan Hammer Earns Second-Team All-American Honors with 16th-Place Finish at NCAA Championships
Courtesy of Utah State Athletics
EUGENE, Oregon — Utah State track & field sophomore Logan Hammer finished 16th in the men’s pole vault with a clearance of 5.22 meters (17-1.5) to earn second-team All-American honors at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on Wednesday evening.
“He’s not happy and not satisfied with the result he had today, but I hope as the days pass he’ll be able to recognize what a special season he’s had,” said Artie Gulden, USU’s director of track & field and cross country said. “He jumped over a foot higher than he did last year, made it to the NCAAs, second-team All-American and our first All-American in track & field since 2019.”
With his performance, Hammer is the first Aggie All-American since Sindri Gudmundsson earned first-team honors in the men’s javelin in 2019.
Hammer passed on 5.07 meters (16-7.5) and cleared 5.22 meters (17-1.5) on his first attempt to earn 16th. He had the height to clear 5.37 meters (17-7.25) twice but hit the bar on his way down.
“He came down on the bar and that’s one of the incredibly technical aspects of the pole vault,” Gulden said. “You have to have everything right.”
Gulden said he is proud of Hammer’s example for the team and looks forward to his next two seasons in Aggie Blue.
“He set the standard for the rest of the team and showed the guys and the ladies on the team that this was possible,” Gulden said. “We want to get kids to NCAAs and he’s leading the way.”
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NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships
Hayward Field | Eugene, Oregon | June 5, 2024
USU Men’s Results:
Pole Vault – 16. Logan Hammer, 5.22 meters (17-1.5).
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SALT LAKE CITY — A California man in Utah, as part of his duties with the National Guard, is accused of trying to solicit sex from a young teenager.
Joshua Ruben Rodriguez, 29, of Fresno, was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with attempted rape of a child, a first-degree felony, and enticement of a minor, a second-degree felony.
The investigation began when an agent with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation posed as a 13-year-old girl on a “popular social media site … in an attempt to locate and apprehend adults attempting to have sexual contact with children,” according to charging documents.
On April 16, Rodriguez sent the agent a message — believing he was talking to a teen girl — that stated, “I’ll be direct with you, I would like to get to know you and (have sex with) your mind into a daze to where you feel like a woman,” according to charging documents.
When the “girl” asked if he had a problem with her age, Rodriguez replied, “I don’t have a problem with your age,” the charges state.
The agent told Rodriguez to meet at an apartment complex in Salt Lake County where the girl lived, claiming her mother would be gone. When Rodriguez arrived, he was taken into custody, the charges state.
“(Rodriguez) does not have ties to Utah. He is a resident of Fresno, California. (He) was in town as part of his military service with the California National Guard,” prosecutors stated in charging documents while requesting he be held without bail pending trial.
ST. GEORGE, Utah (KUTV) — One person was hospitalized at the St. George Regional Hospital after a car rolled and caught fire just south of the Utah-Arizona border.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department in Arizona said its crews responded to the crash near the Black Rock Road exit – roughly two miles south of the state border – on Sunday night.
Upon arrival, crews put out the car fire and found the driver had left the scene. A single occupant, who was able to get out of the car on their own, was transported to the hospital by a Beaver Dam ambulance.
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Their condition has not been publicly released.
Details on what led to the crash and the condition of the driver were not immediately available.
The Beaver Dam and Littlefield Fire Department said law enforcement investigated the scene.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz missed out on the NBA Playoffs, but still scored a big win thanks to a coin flip.
In Monday’s tiebreaker coin flip to determine who had the fourth-worst record in the league last season, the Jazz came out winners over the Sacramento Kings, who had the same 22-60 record.
Had the Jazz lost the coin flip, they would have been fifth in NBA Draft Lottery odds. Only the worst four teams are guaranteed to remain within the top eight of the lottery.
If Utah had fallen to fifth, there would have been the chance they could have dropped out of the top 8 teams in the lottery, and owed the draft pick to Oklahoma City, which was top-8 protected in a previous trade.
The Jazz now have an 11.5 percent chance to win the first overall pick in the NBA Draft Lottery, which is scheduled for Sunday, May 10.
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