COLUMBIA, Mo. ? The Indiana State University men and women's track and field teams each picked up three victories at the Missouri Relays, which were conducted in windy conditions and suspended for several hours by rain and lightning.
Dani Prince led a 1-2 finish for the Indiana State women in the 5,000 meters with a first place finish in 17:19.18. Laura Engle took second with a time of 17:24.70. Kylie Hutson returned to her winning ways, winning the pole vault competition with a vault of 12-feet-9.5 (3.90 m) which also qualified her for the NCAA regionals in May.
Santia Spight finished second in a jump off in the high jumpwith a leap of 5-feet-7.25 (1.71 meters) while Myra Bess had a good meet with a fourth place finish in the 100 meter hurdles (14.34) and a fifth place finish in the 400 meter hurdles (1:03.82). Jeanne Roberts placed sixth in the 100 meter preliminaries (11.96) but withdrew from the finals due to a strained hamstring. Janae Bridges finished fourth in the 200 meters (25.22), Erica Moore fifth in the 800 meters (2:14.47), Leah Durr fourth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (11:20.65) and Lauren Martin sixth in the long jump (18-feet-1.75 (5.53 m).
Kurt Heimann won the 800 meters for the men's team with a time of 1:54.57 while Sean Bowman took first in the 1,500 meters in 3:55.59 and Jason Carruthers won the discus with a toss of 160-feet-9 (49.01 m).
The Sycamores had several runner-up finishes during the meet. Corey Dowden was second in the triple jump with a leap of 49-feet-4.25 (15.04 m), Curt Sunderland was second in the high jump at 6-feet-8.75 (2.05 m), Kyle Walsh finished second in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (9:28.94), and Scott Koressel was second in the 3,000 meters (8:47.93) with Antonio McDaniel fifth (8:56.78).
Indiana State's 4x100 meter relay team of Antinoice Surry, Sean Wright, Logan Edwards and Gary Ogburn finished second in 41.30 while the 4x110 meter shuttle relay of Anthony Bertoli, Carlton Hoyles, Paladin Jordan and Patrick Mendenhall was second in 1:00.62.
Erik Forehand took fourth in the 10,000 meters (32:05.71), Jeremy Gillingham fifth in the discus at 149-feet-10 (45.66 m) and Jason Carruthers was fifth in the hammer throw with a regional qualifying effort of 196-feet-0 (59.75 m)
Former Indiana State runner Jordan Fife finished second in the 5,000 meters with a time of 14:26.29.
“The competition was good, the weather was hit and miss, it was just a typical track and field weekend,” men's coach John McNichols said. “This was a pretty good meet with some good performances. Now we know the facility that we will compete at for the NCAA regionals in May.”
The Sycamores will participate in the Big Blue Classic next weekend at Charleston, Illinois.
