Live Results
ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track & field teams compete in the final regular season meet of the outdoor season when it travels to the Wildcat Invite hosted by Randolph College Saturday.
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Live Results
LAST TIME OUT
The Mountain Lions hosted the Concord Invite April 12 as both the men's and women's teams finished second in the team scoring.
On the men's side, CU tallied four victories with three coming in individual events and the other being in the 4x100-meter relay. Graduate student
Alex Watty (800-meter run), senior
Preston Prather (5,000-meter run) and junior
George Acuna III (400-meter hurdles) were winners. The quartet of freshman
Jaidyn Foddrell, junior
Ian Gardner, freshman
Bradley Harris and graduate student
Gerard Hearst won the 4x100-meter relay. Prather ran a season-best time of 15:24.40 in the 5,000-meters in route to his win.
The Mountain Lion women had two event victories: freshman
Abbey Londeree in the 10,000-meter run and graduate student
Emily Wallace in the 1,500-meter run. However, the throwing events paced the second-place team finish for CU. Freshman
Meagan Poticher was second in the javelin with a personal-best toss of 27.83 meters. Sophomore
Lilly Jackson (27.05 meters) and senior
Alaina Mills (25.86 meters) were fourth and fifth, respectively. Poticher added a third-place showing in the discus (26.67 meters). Graduate student
Abbey Wallace was seventh (23.74 meters).
WILDCAT INVITE ENTRIES
With Saturday being the final opportunity for the Mountain Lions to make the top 16 in their respective events for the Mountain East Conference Championships, some athletes are sitting on the bubble ahead of the MEC Meet April 28-30 at Frostburg State.
Harris is in the mix to qualify in three individual events at the conference championships. He will be entered in all three sprint events this weekend: 100, 200 and 400-meter dashes. He is currently ranked 13
th in the 200-meters in the MEC and 18
th in both the 100 and 400-meter dashes. Hearst leads the conference in the 100-meters (10.61 seconds), but is also looking to secure a spot in the 200-meters where he ranks 22
nd. Freshmen
Andrew Tickle and
Wes Holcomb are seeking to move up in the 3,000-meters steeplechase as they sit 13
th and 15
th, respectively. Acuna III is currently 15
th in the 400-meter hurdles. And junior
Jonny Sweeney is on the bubble in the javelin, currently ranked 15
th.
Watty is sits 17
th in the 800-meters and freshmen
Braden Ward is 17
th in the 5,000-meters. They will travel to WVU for the Mountaineer Twilight Saturday.
On the women's side, the trio of junior
Alexis Anzevino, freshman
Hayley Collins and junior
Shyanna James are entered in the 400-meter hurdles. Collins is securely in the field for the MEC Championships as she ranks ninth. Anzevino will be seeking to lock up her current spot of 13
th while James is 17
th heading into the weekend. Freshman
Sara Turner is 18
th in the 5,000-meters and is scheduled to run alongside fellow freshman
Piper Doughton. Sophomore
Emma Jenkins needs to move up four places to tie up a spot in the 800-meters. And Mills begins the weekend 15
th in the javelin throw. Competing with her will be graduate student
Jasmine Abrell, freshman
Abby Humphrey and senior
Taylor Perry.
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