CHARLOTTE, N.C. – WKU Track & Field had 10 Hilltoppers and one Lady Topper qualify for the finals of seven individual events on Saturday at the 2019 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The final day of competition has been moved up due to expected inclement weather. Sunday's field events will begin at 7 a.m. CT while track events will start at 9 a.m. CT.
On the men's side, WKU qualified four Hilltoppers in the 100-meter and three in the 200-meter, 400-meter and 400-meter hurdles. Martin Owusu-Antwi, Will Bush and Josh Davis finished second, fourth and fifth in the preliminary round of the 100. Those three were joined by Kymari Gates in qualifying for the 200-meter. Austin Hayes finished just outside the qualifying pack in each of those races.
In the quarter-mile race, Gates led the qualifying round at 46.25. Duncan Agyemang and Oliver Alexandre were able to qualify for the finals as well, posting a 47.10 and 47.16. Lincoln Warren and Abdur Kelly finished outside the final round by just under a second.
2016 C-USA Outdoor 400-meter hurdle winner Maor Seged placed first in the qualifying round with his second-best time of the season. David Saruni finished fourth in the preliminary race while Agyemang placed sixth, both good enough finishes to move onto the final round.
Mid-distance runner Dedrick Troxell qualified for the men's 1500-meter finals with a time just over four minutes. Michael Sherman and Matthew Wininger were the first and second men out of the final race.
Lady Topper Juannae Lewis qualified for the women's 200 and 400-meter final events. In the preliminary races, Lewis finished sixth in the 200 and fifth in the 400.
WKU continued to see success in its female jumping events. Annastacia Forrester jumped 6.14 meters which was good for second, earning eight points for the Lady Toppers. She bested her own top jump from the 2019 season by a tenth of a meter.
Briana Eskridge placed ninth with a jump of 5.79 meters while Myesha Nott finished 13th after recording a jump of 5.51 meters. The Lady Toppers are set to compete in high jump and triple jump on Sunday.
Pole vaulters Getter Lemberg and Nicole Ogorek placed seventh and 11th, respectively. Lemberg completed a jump of 3.61 meters while Ogorek jumped 3.31 meters.
Morgan Kannapel was WKU's sole competitor in the meet on Friday. Kannapel ran in the 10,000-meter, finishing 12th with a time of 43:22.31.
At the end of the third day of competition, the women's team is in ninth while the men's team is yet to get on the board.
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