GENEVA, Ohio - The West Liberty University men's and women's indoor track and field teams kept rolling, breaking six more records on Saturday at the Spire Institute Collegiate Indoor Games.
The Hilltoppers have now set or tied a school record 25 times through seven meets.
Hunter Patterson headlined the day racing to school record times in the men's 60m and 200m. The freshman placed fourth in the 60m dash with a 6.88, breaking his own previous school record of 6.89, after qualifying with a prelim time of 6.90. In the 200m, Patterson finished in seventh place with a 22.15 beating the school record by 0.09 seconds, which he previously tied on January 28 at the YSU College Mid Major.
Michael Harriman earned his fourth school record with a 50.42 in the men's 400m race. Harriman bested the previous record held since 2015 by Brendan Kacor by 0.38 seconds. Harriman now owns the 400m, 500m, 600m, and 800m school records and is a member of the best distance medley relay as well as 4x400m relay teams in program history.
Arthur Williams (50.70) and
Tavian Richardson (50.84) both ran in the 50 second range as well right behind Harriman.
The men's 4x400m relay squad featuring Williams, Richardson,
Marshall Cheatham, and Harriman set a new school record with a time of 3:21.65. Harriman and Richardson were on the previous record-setting team last February.
Two women's records fell at the meet. Freshman
Sierra Lanham ran a 26.56 in the 200m, eclipsing teammate
Maggie Kovalcik's record set in January by four hundredths of a second. In pole vault,
Olivia Combs continued her strong season upping her own record to 3.45m clearing it on her second try. Combs tied the school record earlier this season, then took sole possession of it the following weekend, and now is adding on to her own record book going up 0.1m.
Brenden Sands (8:32.07) and
Ben Bumgarner (8:32.26) finished second and third in the men's 3000m run.Â
Hailey Carreon ran a 9.18 in the 60m hurdles to finish in fifth place overall. She was the top-DII runner behind a quartet of DI athletes. On the men's side
Mikhi Anderson (8.49) and
Marshall Cheatham (8.50) made the final heat and finished sixth and seventh respectively.Â
Danah Phillips ran a 1:55.81 finishing ninth out of 57 in the men's 800m.
Freshman
Luis Martinez and
Joshua Fancher led the men's shot put competitors for the Black and Gold finishing 10th and 13th with long tosses of 15.38m and 14.61m.
John Brown was the top finisher in weight throw with a 13.39m throw placing 14th.
Junior
Kennedy Martin led the women's throwers finishing 14th in the shot put with a 11.95m mark.
Suzan Johnson posted a team-best 13.48m in the women's weight throw.
Sophomore
Mara Pendergrast cleared the third-highest mark in the women's high jump, at 1.60m tying for the best of any DII participant.
On her second try, Freshman
Sierra Lanham landed at 5.35m which ended up being good for seventh overall and second of any DII athlete in the women's long jump competition. On the men's side
Daminn Cunningham posted a 6.69m twice and finished in eighth place.
Brijaun Baylor leaped 12.13m finishing ninth in the men's triple jump pacing four Hilltoppers in the field, while
Zayne Brakeall posted a 9.80m jump as the lone competitor in the women's triple jump.
Dakota Thomas and
Liam Vinskovich both cleared 1.95m on their second tries in the men's high jump to finish in a tie for seventh place.
Reese Burnside was the lone Hilltopper in the men's pole vault and went over 4.60m placing seventh.
Both teams are set to compete in the Mountain East Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships next weekend (Feb. 17-18) in Huntington, W.Va. A performance list will be released early this week by the conference.
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