ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track & field teams conclude the regular season at the Jasmine Claggett Memorial Invite hosted by West Virginia Wesleyan Saturday at Cebe Ross Field in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
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LAST TIME OUT
Both Mountain Lion teams finished as the runners-up at the Concord Open last Friday at Callaghan Stadium. The men scored 114 points while the women rolled up 103 points.
For the CU men, they tallied four event victories. Freshman
Myles Gurnee ran a personal-record time of 57.18 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles. Junior
Bramley Childress also sported a career-best time in winning the 5,000-meter run (15:11.98). In the process, he moved up to 13
th in the MEC in the event. Sophomore
Reese Hickey clocked 2:00.04 in the 800-meter run to collect a win, and redshirt freshman
Dom Collins won the 100-meter dash in a showing of 10.68 seconds. The 4x400-meter relay squad of Gurnee, sophomore
Jaedan Holstein, freshman
William Jackson and sophomore
Aaron Miller ran a season-best time of 3:38.50 as they finished second.
The 4x400-meter relay was one of two event wins for the Mountain Lion women as freshman
Avery Lilly, sophomore
Kendall Lilly, junior
Kiley Smich and freshman
Violet Wall combined for a time of 4:24.34. Sophomore
Cierra Parker was the other winner for CU as she cleared 1.65 meters in the high jump. Sophomore
Larah Blevins was the runner-up in the 5,000-meter run in a time of 22:56.03. Freshman
Chloe Cox had a personal-record throw in the discus at 34.02 meters while junior
Meagan Poticher did the same with a mark of 30.77 meters. Junior
Piper Doughton clocked a career-best time of 5:37.25 in the 1,500-meters to finish sixth.
JASMINE CLAGGET ENTRIES
Saturday is the final chance for the Mountain Lions to qualify for the upcoming Mountain East Conference Championships that run April 26-28 with the top 16 in each event making the conference championship.
Heading into the weekend, Jackson occupies the final spot in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.67. He is entered in the 400-meters at Wesleyan with Miller who is currently 21
st in the MEC (51.30 seconds). Junior
Shawn Bennett sits on the bubble of the hammer throw at 19
th in the MEC (39.71 meters). As it stands, he will need a throw of better than 41 meters to enter the top 16. Freshman
Isaac Treadway and sophomore
Marquise Walker join Bennett in the event. Collins has cemented his spot in the 100-meters, ranking third in the MEC. However, he will give the event a go with senior
Richard Henry, currently 14
th in the MEC (11.02 seconds), and fellow senior
Ryan Covington.
After running a personal-best 400-meter time last weekend, Wall is still firmly on the bubble of the event as she sits 15
th in the MEC (1:00.17). She is entered along with senior
Emma Londeree. Doughton needs to climb one spot to enter the top 16 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. She previously ran 13:07 in the event this season. Cox is entered in the hammer with a season-best throw of 37.00 meters. She is 20
th in the conference and needs to a throw of at least 38.66 meters to find her way into the top 16. And rounding out the top entries for the CU women is K. Lilly in the high jump as she is 18
th with a height of 1.43 meters this spring.
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