Former Castle Rock High standout Krystal Deyo established a pair of school records and earned all-conference honors during the recent Big Sky Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Deyo, a junior with the women’s track team at Eastern Washington University, earned all-Big Sky Conference by placing second in the 60-meter dash in 7.55 seconds, breaking the old school mark of 7.67 set in 1999.

She also placed fourth in the long jump with a school-record distance of 19 feet, 2 3/4 inches, bettering the old mark of 19-feet in 1998.

• A pair of Mark Morris graduates are having successful freshman seasons as members of the Washington State University track team. During the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Championships held at the University of Washington, Jennifer Hamilton finished 10th in the women’s shot put with a heave of 44-4 1/4, and Ross VanZanten placed 10th in the men’s high jump with a leap of 6-4 3/4.

In the recent Vandal Collegiate Indoor Meet held in Moscow, Idaho, Hamilton was third with a toss of 41-8, and VanZanten cleared 6-8 to grab second.

• Toutle Lake’s Kinsey Laine, a sophomore at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, placed in three individual events and helped a relay to a top-five finish at the Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference Championships held in Long Beach, Calif.

Laine placed seventh in the 400 individual medley in 4 minutes, 38.78 seconds, and grabbed 12th-place finishes in the 200 individual medley (2:11.02) and 200 butterfly (2:12.10). She also helped the 800 freestyle relay to a fourth-place finish, and completed her 200 split in 1:56.7, giving her NCAA “B” qualifying times in each individual event.

The Nanooks placed sixth at the meet after collecting 15 school records, four “A” qualifying times and four “B” qualifying times.

• Kelso High graduate Josh Miller, a sophomore wrestler at Clackamas College in Oregon City, Ore., was ranked fourth in the nation at 174 pounds prior to the National Junior College Athletic Association Championships held in Rochester, Minn.

Miller, who finished the season with a 19-10 record, went 1-2 at the tournament and didn’t place. Clackamas, which was ranked third in the country among community colleges, finished in third place.

• Wahkiakum High grad Jeff McNally, a junior safety with the Eastern Oregon University football team, was one of 247 student-athletes nationally named a 2008 Daktronics NAIA Academic All-American. McNally is studying business.

• Former R.A. Long High and Lower Columbia College standout Jonah Hobson, a graduate student at Hawaii Pacific University, is hitting .400 as a starting outfielder with the Sea Warriors’ baseball team. Hobson is playing out his medical redshirt season while completing his master’s degree in business administration.

• Three other former LCC baseball players are also in their junior seasons at Hawaii Pacific. Infielder Sean Winston is hitting .356 as a starting infielder, Chad Wagner has a 3-1 record with a 3.38 earned run average as a starting pitcher, and Sebastian (Bas) Nooij is hitting .357 as a reserve catcher.

• Another ex-LCC player, Jett Hart, flexed his muscles and wrote his name into the University of Oregon baseball record book. In the Ducks’ second game of the season at St. Mary’s in Moranga, Calif., Hart hit a line-drive home run that cleared the left-field wall as the first round-tripper of the modern era of Oregon baseball.

“It was a pleasant surprise,” Oregon head coach George Horton told the school’s Daily Emerald newspaper. “It’s going to probably be a little bit of a surprise every time anybody hits the ball over the fence for us. We don’t teach that. Although it’s good, that’s not our style of game.”

During his two years at LCC, Hart stole 62 bases and hit four home runs. He was recruited by Horton for his speed and as a catalyst in the Ducks’ “small-ball” attack.

“He came with a fastball in and he left it over the plate,” Hart said of the St. Mary’s offering after his historic blast. “I just got lucky.”

That wasn’t the only “first” Hart has accomplished for Oregon baseball’s modern era. He also hit the program’s first triple, a two-run shot that hit off the top of the left-center field wall and made the difference in a 5-3 victory over St. Mary’s in Oregon’s first game of the season.

During the three-game series at St. Mary’s, Hart hit .364 with a single, double, triple and home run for the series cycle.

• Former Kelso High, Oregon State University and LCC standout Cort Carpenter, now a senior first baseman with the University of Portland baseball team, was 5-for-8 with six runs batted in during a recent doubleheader split with the Southern Utah Thunderbirds.

Carpenter is hitting .321 with two home runs and nine RBIs.

• Former LCC men’s basketball player Nick Moore, now a senior at The Evergreen State College, was named to the all-Cascade Collegiate Conference first team after averaging 16 points and 5.2 rebounds.

Moore scored 19 points as the Geoducks dropped an 82-72 decision to Oregon Tech in the title game of the CCC finals, but the team still qualified for the NAIA Division II National Championships in Branson, Mo., this month.

• Another ex-LCC player, Kourtney Craft, is a member os the women’s basketball team at Concordia University, which also qualified for the NAIA Division II National Championships. Concordia, 28-3 and ranked 11th in the latest NAIA Division II women’s basketball poll, defeated the College of Idaho 75-66 in the CCC finals.

Craft has appeared in 28 of the Cavaliers’ 31 games as a defensive stopper.

Rick McCorkle is a sportswriter for The Daily News. If you know of a college student-athlete not mentioned in this column, contact him at rmccorkle@tdn.com or 577-2529.