COMPLETE RESULTS

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The men’s distance medley relay team and the women’s 4x1500 meter relay team won and four Colonels ran Ohio Valley Conference-best times as the Eastern Kentucky University track and field team competed at the Tennessee Sea Ray Relays on a cold and windy weekend at Tom Black Track.

The men’s distance medley relay team – composed of seniors David Willis and Kristopher Hawkins and sophomores Soufiane Bouchikhi and Victor Kemboi – won on Saturday with a time of 10:14.93, while the women’s 4x1500 meter relay team – composed of senior Kat Pagano, juniors Lydia Kosgei and Danielle Mason and sophomore Picoty Leitich – won with a time of 19:44.35.

The women’s shuttle hurdle relay team – composed of senior Jasmyn Norris, junior Lutisha Bowen, sophomore DanHeisha Harding and freshman Shiyana Mahendra, and which won at the Sea Ray Relays last year with a time of 56.84 – finished second on Saturday with a time of 58.71. The men’s 4x1500 meter relay team – composed of Bouchikhi, Kemboi and juniors David Mutuse and Evans Kiptoo – also finished second with a time of 16:20.36.

On the individual side, Kosgei highlighted the weekend for EKU as she finished second in the women’s 1,500 meters with a personal and OVC-best time of 4:23.32. Her time is the 15th fastest in the East Region so far this year.

Other Colonels who ran OVC bests over the weekend were Willis, who finished third in the men’s unseeded 800 meters with a time of 1:54.36 and is now less than second ahead of Eastern Illinois’ Graham Morris atop of the OVC list, Kemboi, who finished ninth in the men’s 1,500 meters with a time of 3:55.52, and Leitich, who placed seventh in the women’s 800 meters with a time of 2:11.73.

The EKU track and field team returns to action next weekend at the Indiana Hoosier Invitational in Bloomington, Ind.