FRESNO, Calif. -- Going into the second day of the PacWest Championships, Azusa Pacific trailed by a point, but the four-time PacWest defending champion got a strong performance in the triple jump from Jermel Jones II to lead the Cougars to a fifth-consecutive title on Friday at Fresno Pacific University.

The Cougars became, along with their women's track & field program, the sixth and seventh programs in PacWest history to win five-consecutive PacWest Championships titles. They joined California Baptist men's cross country, Hawai`i Pacific softball, BYU-Hawaii women's tennis, Hawai`i Pacific men's tennis and BYU-Hawaii volleyball.

Azusa Pacific scored most of its points in the field events, and the jumps in particular were a big source of points. Raymon Harper cleared two meters in the high jump to win that event, while Jones finished in fourth place. Then in the triple jump, Jones took first place with a jump of 15.29 meters for his second individual title of the meet, while Harper finished in fourth place, and Isaiah Harris took third place.

Fresno Pacific kept the battle for first place interesting all day with strong performances in the throwing events, finishing in second place as a team. Moe Bradley won the shot put with 15.57 meters as his top mark, while Jesse Franco took fourth place. Bradley then took second place in the discus.

In the decathlon, Lincoln Krog took first place for Azusa Pacific with a score of 6,835 followed by Brett Lombardi in second place with 6,064 points. Lombardi single-handedly scored 38 of Fresno Pacific's 198 points, which was the Sunbirds' best team score since 2014. Lombardi won two events and scored in three other events for the Sunbirds.

Concordia was led by Chaison Hamilton in the field events. He took second place in the shot put and then won the discus with a mark of 48.94 meters. Concordia also got 14 points in the high jump with Michael Ervin and AJ Adams both earning medals in the event by clearing two meters. The Eagles finished the meet in fourth place.

Academy of Art took third place as a team after dominating the sprints, which has historically been one of the strong points for the Urban Knights. In the 200-meter dash, the Urban Knights had four of the top-7 finishers, including Daquan Berry, who won the event with a time of 21.24 seconds and was named the Male Track Athlete of the Meet. Berry also won the 100-meter dash in a photo finish with a time of 10.62 seconds.

Biola finished the event with 98 points in fifth place. The Eagles two top-5 finishers in the 100-meter dash. Chase Williams took second place in the event with a time of 10.64 seconds, while Jaquez Durham finished in fifth place.