WICHITA, Kan. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State track and field team wins the 4x800 meter relay Saturday afternoon in the Wichita State University Invitational inside of the Heskett Center.
The 4x800 relay team consisted of Ladasheray Bell, Jasmin Garcia, Mariah Malloy and Zoe Moorman. The team finished with a time of ten minutes and 58.91 seconds to defeat Cottey College by 28.99 seconds.
The Lady Rangers finished in second place as a team with 123 points, holding off Friends by five points. Midwestern State took the crown with a total count of 173 points.
Northwestern continued their streak of breaking school records, with five events having a new record set for the best. Bell took over as the top runner in the 600 meters, Briley Yunker bested the 800 meter ranks, Garcia ran to the top of the 1 mile run, Camille Lear set the time to beat in the 3000 meter run and soaring to the best high jump is Selena McDonald.
In the 600 meters Bell finished with a record setting time of 1:44.02, joining her in the event was Angel Marshall who has the fourth best time after running the race in 1:59.57.
Yunker improved her record in the 800 meter race by 1.46 seconds, turning in a time of 2:28.39, also competing in the race was Jaya Barnes, who claimed the second best time finishing at the 2:32.75. Malloy ended with a time of 2:42.92 moving into the sixth spot and Melissa Perez now holds the 10th spot improving her personal record by 14.14 seconds with a time of 2:55.74 Saturday.
Garcia used her new personal best time in the one mile run to take the top spot in the record books clocking a time of 5:52.77, which is 10.43 seconds better than her old time. Kayla Gourley, who now holds the second spot in the rankings, was hot on Garcia's tracks ending with a time of 6:01.50. Moorman had a finishing time of 6:26.64 moving into the fourth spot and Jean Dodds improved her PR to 7:06.99.
Lear's record setting time in the 3000 meter race was 11:45.67. She cut just under a minute off of her previous time of 11:55.65, which she ran last week in Manhattan. Gourley joined lear turning in a time of 11:55.44 and Madison Meyer, competed in the event for the first time, had a time of 12:47.85.
In the high jump McDonald leaped 1.52m, besting her record she set at Kansas State by 0.01m. In the other jumping events, Rebecca Wasson jumped 4.68m in the long jump, while Natasha Stocks and Rachel Wilson set their PRs, Stocks jumped 4.10m and Wilson reached 4.07m. In the triple jump Stocks moved into the sixth spot leaping 9.15m.
Rosaria Milton led the Lady Rangers in the throwing events Saturday in the weight throw she gained 11.26m and in the shot put her distance was 11.03m. following Milton in the weight throw was Jenny Martinez with a 11.02m throw and Kelsey Swindle with 9.55m. in the shot put Destiny Chew set her PR and claimed the third best throw with a 10.67m, while Martinez chunked it 9.50m.
In other events Elizabeth McMahan competed in the 60 meter hurdles finishing with a time of 10.46, the second best all-time finish. While in the 60 meter race Abrianna Orona claimed the third spot and Jasmine Bowen took the fourth, finishing the race respectfully at 8.41 seconds and 8.44 seconds. IceLei Duke improves to the eighth spot with a finish of 8.71 seconds, while Kianna Dickey had a time of 8.72 seconds, Wasson improves the 10th best time, clocking 8.88 seconds and Raven Pridgen-Spearman had a time of 8.89 seconds. Stocks crossed at the 9.08 mark and McMahan ended at the 9.26 spot.
Bowen grabs a hold of the second place in the 200 meters turning in a time of 28.42 seconds, Orona finished with a time of 28.85 seconds, Wasson ended with 30.42 seconds, while Dickey turned in a time of 30.51, Stocks crossed at the 30.76 mark and McMahan finished with 31.35 seconds.
During the 400 meter race Duke moved in the third spot in the record books with a finishing time of one minute and 5.99 seconds, Orona moves into the fifth spot in the records ending the race at the 1:06.73 mark, while Abigail Cole turned in a time of 1:09.89 and Pridgen-Spearman had a time of 1:10.41.
Northwestern had two teams competing in the 400 meter relay, with the team made up of Duke, Barnes, Orona and Yunker tied the third best time with a finish of 4:25.05 and the team of Bowen, Dickey, Pridgen-Spearman and Marshall turned in a time of 4:42.00 to take the sixth best finish in school history.
