MOREHEAD, Ky. – Freshman
Kalynn Pease set another school record and senior
Kaylyn Holman moved farther up the all-time list as the Morehead State track and field pair led the Eagles over the first two days of the Jim Freeman/Clark Wood Invitational at the Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park in Louisville, Ky.
On Thursday, Pease bettered her long jump mark by a foot to capture the Flight A title. Her leap of 21'05.25" moved her into a tie for seventh nationally.
Yet, Pease was not the only standout. On Friday, Holman placed 12th collegiately and 13th overall in the 800-meter run with a "pr" of 2:16.12 to move into sixth on the school's all-time performer's list.
The pair were two of 16 Eagles in action at the meet. Most of the team will compete in Saturday's events.
Pease went over 20 feet on all her official jumps, although she fouled on her second and fourth attempts and passed on the final one. On her first attempt, she recorded a 6.13m/20'01.50" leap, bettering it on her third effort, which landed at 6.45m/21'02.00". Her fifth mark was a 6.53/21'05.25".
However, like she did when she set the previous school record of 20'05.00", she reached the distance aided by the wind. On Thursday, her winning jump had a 3.3 mile per hour gust which exceeds the allowable limit for official records.
Although she won her Flight, among all women's long jumpers at the meet, she tied Louisville's Eve Divinity at 6.53m. Divinity won the Flight B competition held on Friday. Thursday's runner up was Ella Scally, who was jumping unattached, at 6.44m/21'01.50". Western Michigan's Sandra Ferrari was the next-best finishing collegian, as she registered a 6.27m/20'07.00".
Holman ran in the third heat and finished second to Dayton's Anna Newkirk (2:14.77). Holman covered the first lap in 1:06.60 and came home in 1:09.52. It was her "pr" by 35-hundredths of a second. Last year, she set a then-"pr" of 2:18.36 to place 30th. She is sixth all-time at MSU. Julie Rice has the fifth-best time of 2:14.10, set in 1975. Natalie Norman holds the record with a 2:11.45, a mark she reached in 2013.
Junior
Derril Carr, sophomore
Weston Blair and freshman
Kyler Witt had the top male performances.
Carr set a "pr" in the 200-meter dash, winning his heat and finishing 49th overall and 52nd collegiately, with a time of 22.66. It was his first 200m of the season and he bettered his previous top mark by nine-thousandths of a second.
Blair finished 19th collegiately and 21st overall in the 71-person 800m, crossing the line in 1:54.97 for his third sub-1:55 this year. Last year, he was 44th in 1:57.90. On Friday, Blair was edged at the line by former Eagle Kyle Crady's twin brother, Sean, who placed 20th in 1:54.92.
Witt was second in his heat of the 200m, falling just three-thousandths of a second behind Notre Dame (Ind.)'s Evan Hudson, and placing 46th collegiately and 48th overall in 22.46 overall, which was his "pr" by six-thousandths of a second.
Freshman
Peyton Lunsford had one of the biggest drops in time on the day, by taking second in her heat of the 800m and placing 48th collegiately and 50th overall in 2:32.24. It was a "pr" by 9.06 seconds.
Also in the women's 800m, freshman
Josey Corbin was 54th overall and 56th collegiately in 2:36.57 and freshman
Lauren Jones was 55th collegiately and 57th overall in 2:37.15.
In the men's race, freshman
Jesus Mendoza-Solis was 48th overall and 51st collegiately in 2:01.58, while junior
Brady Baker was 49th and 52nd, respectively, in 2:01.64. Both ran in the same nine-person heat, with Mendoza-Solis taking third and Baker finishing fourth.
In the women's 200m, sophomore
Olivia Miles recorded her "pr" of 26.46, slicing off 22-hundredths of a second and finished in 91st collegiately and 97th overall. She was second in her heat.
Junior
Erin Pease finished 17th in the javelin with a mark of 25.37m/83'03".
Four Eagles competed in the 5,000-meter run to conclude Friday's competition. Sophomore
Meredith Campbell placed 11th collegiately and 12th overall in 18:34.64, while senior
Abby Taylor who ran a "tempo" race and finished 29th collegiately and 30th overall in 19:42.48.
In the men's race, junior
Aidan Whitsell was 27th/31st 16:51.67, while graduate student
Aidan Massey pulled out after 1,800 meters and placed 31st collegiately and 35th overall.
On Saturday, sophomore
Brody Coleman will compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at 1:50 p.m. His "pr" is 10:16.46. He will be in heat two.
The first relay will be the 4x100m event at 2:15 p.m. The women's foursome of
Kalynn Pease, sophomore
Maryah Counts, Miles and freshman
Kennedi Alford will compete at 2:15 p.m. Its "pr" is 47.42. It will be in heat three.
The men will have two entries at 2:25 p.m. Sophomore
Mark Whitener, freshman
Sam Afari, freshman
Luke Kelly and freshman
Kyle Stepteau have run together and have a top time of 42.09. It will be the first appearance for the quartet of junior
Cade Sullivan, Carr, freshman
Jayce Stewart and Witt. Both groups will be in heat two.
School-record holder junior
Ginger Hayden will participate in the triple jump at 2:30 p.m. Her "pr" is
11.41m/37'05.25". She will be in flight one.
The 400-meter dash will feature two of the Eagles' all-time greats in the event. Counts holds the record of 56.97, which she set at the lee meet. Miles also will run. Her "pr" is 59.22. Their race starts at 2:35 p.m. Counts will be in heat five and Miles in heat eight.
At 3 p.m., the men's 400m will include Afari, whose 47.90 is the third-fastest time at MSU. Stewart will also toe the line. His "pr" is 51.05. Afari will be in heat three. Stewart will be in heat eight.
The women's 100-meter dash will start at 3:20 p.m. It will include sophomore
Brooklyn Boyce and junior
Cheyenne Stark. Boyce's "pr" is 12.81, while Stark's is 13.32. Boyce will be in heat nine. Stark will be in heat 10.
The men's 100m also will feature some of MSU's fastest ever in the event: Stepteau (fourth), Whitener (seventh) and junior
Cade Sullivan (11th). Their "pr's" are: 10.68 (Stepteau), Whitener (10.82) and Sullivan (11.06). That event will start at 3:40 p.m. Stepteau will be in heat four, Whitener in heat five and Sullivan in heat seven.
Morehead State will have its largest series of entries in the 1,500-meter run. The women will start at 4 p.m., with the men at 4:50 p.m. That group will include junior
Lani Baskett, whose "pr" is 5:16.91, redshirt junior
Christiana Brittian, whose "pr" is 5:00.61, junior
Adi Fuller, whose "pr" is 4:55.85, and Holman. The latter had a big meet at last year's Freeman/Wood meet. There she set a 4.12-second "pr" of 4:42.49, which put her fifth on the school's all-time list. She finished 14th. She has since bettered her "pr" and enters with a top time of 4:38.55. Holman will be in heat three. Brittian and Fuller will be in heat seven. Baskett will be in heat eight.
The four men will include freshman
Josh Arnett, who has the fastest mark among the guys at the distance. His "pr" is 3:59.05. Sophomore
Carter Lamb also will toe the line. He set his "pr" of 4:04.49 earlier this season. The other two entrants, sophomore
Liam Parido and sophomore
Preston Glassco both ran last year and set "pr's". Parido was 34th in 4:05.29, while Glassco was 48th in 4:12.53. Parido's "pr" is the same but Glassco has dropped time and now sits at 4:10.26. Arnett and Parido will be in heat five. Lamb will be in heat six. Glassco will be in heat eight.
The meet will conclude with the 4x400m. The women's foursome of
Kalynn Pease, Alford, Miles and Counts ran during the indoor season and posted a top time of 3:53.01. Their event will start at 5:35 p.m. The quartet will be in heat three.
Like in the quick relay, the men will have two entries. Their race will start at 5:50 p.m. Afari, Stepteau, Stewart and Witt are the top group and have a "pr" of 3:22.28. The foursome of Sullivan, Carr, Whitener and Kelly have never run the distance together. Both entries will be in heat three.
Live results for the meet will be available at the link
https://live.dcracetiming.com/meets/69448.
Morehead State has two more meets this season. Next up is the Jim Green Invitational next weekend at Kentucky. The Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships will be held from May 14-16 in Little Rock, Ark.
