Concord Closes January at Roanoke's Bast-Cregger Invite

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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track & field teams will be in action Friday and Saturday at Roanoke College's Bast-Cregger Invite in Salem, Virginia.

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LAST TIME OUT
The Mountain Lions returned from a two-week hiatus to compete at the Liberty Open Friday.
For the Concord men's team, redshirt freshman Dom Collins rolled to a time of 6.81 seconds in the 60-meter dash which was good enough to earn him Mountain East Conference Athlete of the Week. He finished second at Liberty and clocked the second-fastest time in the MEC this season. Junior Braden Ward ran a personal-record time of 8:34.03 in the 3,000-meters as he clocked the fifth-best time in the MEC this winter. Sophomore Brandon Canaday posted a career-best time of 15:25.33 in the 5,000-meter run as he finished sixth. Ward was three spots ahead with a showing of 15:13.29. Sophomore Daminn Cunningham cleared 1.80 meters in the high jump as he finished ninth.

The CU women's performances were paced by freshman Violet Wall who sported two career-best times. She came through 800-meters in 2:20.63 which is good enough for second in the MEC. She followed in the mile by running 5:17.22. Junior Charlotte McGinnis ran a career-best time of 2:37.35 in the 800-meters. Junior Sara Turner did likewise in the 5,000-meter run with her personal-best time of 19:26.86. It pushes her into the top 16 in the MEC. Junior Meagan Poticher had a season-best throw in the shot put (9.99 meters).

BAST-CREGGER ENTRIES
Five Mountain Lions are entered at or under 4:50 in the mile: Canaday (4:27), junior Andrew Tickle (4:30), sophomore Joshua Uhrig (4:34), freshman Johnny Walkup (4:34) and graduate student Bryce Legg (4:50). The 800-meters will feature three CU athletes seeded under 2:00: sophomore Reese Hickey (1:57), junior AJ Skeens (1:57) and Ward (1:57). Uhrig, freshman Zach Neal and junior Wes Holcomb will double up in the 800-meters and mile. Freshman William Jackson leads Concord into the 200-meter dash after his impressive 400-meter showing at Liberty last weekend. Others in the 200-meters will be junior Ryan Covington, freshman Myles Gurnee and senior Andrew Beohler. Sophomore Tobi Adebulu makes his season debut in the heptathlon, and sophomore Nate Cogle, Cunningham and sophomore Dallas Ford compete in the long jump.

Wall will bump down in distance for the Mountain Lions this weekend as she competes in the 200-meters. She has a seed time of 27.0 seconds. Sophomore Cassidy Hammonds (26.5) has the fastest entry time for CU. Freshman Avery Lilly (28.0), McGinnis (29.0) and sophomore Jenna Webb (29.4) are also scheduled for the event. A total of five Mountain Lions are entered in the 800-meters as sophomore Larah Blevins, freshman Molly Jones, junior Abbey Londeree, senior Emma Londeree and freshman Larissa Wickline race the half mile. The 4x400-meter relay of Hammonds, Lilly, Wall and Webb seek to improve on an eighth-place time in the MEC. And in the pole vault, freshman Elna Albisson-Simon, Jones and freshman Alison Miller are scheduled to compete.