Golden Eagles post nine Top 5 finishes at Wofford's Terrier Relays
With heavy emphasis on the distance events, the Tennessee Tech track & field team ran roughly 29 miles Saturday at the Terrier Relays, hosted by Wofford University. The Golden Eagles established seven personal best marks.
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – With heavy emphasis on the distance
events, the Tennessee Tech track & field team ran roughly 29
miles Saturday at the Terrier Relays, hosted by Wofford
University.
The Golden Eagles established seven personal best marks and posted
nine Top 5 finishes, including two each from juniors Rebecca Cline and
Kelli Keck.
Other Top 5 efforts came from Peri Winborne, Chelsea
Mills, Lacy
Yslas and Landry Loving.
Cline, a junior from Spring Hill, Tenn., notched Tech's only first
place finish, winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a career-best
time of 11:54.27. Winborne, a junior from Knoxville, was just
seconds behind to finish second in 12:14.63.
Cline narrowly missed another first place finish, claiming second
in the 5,000-meter run, an event loaded with seven Golden Eagle
runners. Cline's time was 19:03.11. Senior Beth Miller finished
fourth in the event in 19:22.31.
Other Tech runners in the 5K included Winborne (9th in
19:45.72), Yeshi Dohrmann
(10th in 20:07.42), Amelia McCoy
(11th in 29:19.78), Kathryn Forbes
(13th in 20:25.95) and Meghan
O'Donoghue (16th in 20:51.65). The times for both
McCoy and Forbes were career-best marks.
Mills, a freshman from Chattanooga, had Tech's other second place
finish, doing that in the triple jump at 35 feet, 11 inches. Keck
was fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 35 feet, one of two
fourth place marks for the junior from Crossville, Tenn. She
also placed fourth in the long jump, leading Tech with a mark of 16
feet, 7 inches.
Yslas, a senior from Sparta, Tenn., claimed fourth in the discus
with a toss of 123 feet, 5 inches.
Loving, a freshman from Johnson City, Tenn., earned the other Top
5 showing placing fifth in the 1,500-meter run in the time of
5:06.48.
The next action for coach Tony Cox's team is the Western Kentucky Invitational on Saturday (April 13).
