| May 15, 2005
Contact: Kyle Stephens (210) 458-4907 Dupree, Holmes, women’s 4x1 grab gold at SLC Outdoor Championships Complete Results | Day One Recap | Day Two Recap
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Junior All-American Ryanne Dupree, senior Rosalind Holmes and the women’s 4x100-meter relay team all grabbed gold medals as the UTSA men’s and women’s track and field teams finished third and fourth, respectively, at the Southland Conference Outdoor Championships held Sunday evening at York Track & Field Complex/Bowers Stadium.
Dupree won her fourth overall conference title with a victory in the 100m hurdles and finished the meet as the high point scorer on the women’s side with 25.5 points. Holmes added her third individual league crown with a win in the 100m, while both ran on the victorious 4x100m relay squad.
Combined with Dupree’s victory in the heptathlon and sophomore Morgan Moszee’s long jump win on Saturday, the women captured five gold medals altogether, the most at one outdoor meet since the 1997 squad won seven.
In the team standings, the men finished third with 96 points, one point ahead of Northwestern State’s 95. The women took fourth place with 113 points, their highest finish since placing third in 2002.
Sam Houston State swept both titles going away as the Bearkat women scored 172.5 points and the men posted 188. Texas State was second on the women’s side with 137 points, while Stephen F. Austin took third (125). SFA was the men’s runner-up with 126.5.
Entering the day in fourth place with 43 points, the UTSA women got things rolling on the track with three victories and 37 points in the first five events.
In the first track event, the 4x100m relay, Moszee, Dupree, sophomore Lyndsey Sidney and Holmes passed the baton to victory in a stadium record time of 45.39. That marked the program’s first win in the sprint relay since capturing back-to-back titles in 1996-97. The 45.39 clocking qualifies the foursome for the NCAA Midwest Regional and also was just .08 seconds off the school record of 45.31 set in 1995.
Dupree breezed to her second straight 100m hurdles crown with a stadium record 13.60, her fastest wind-legal time of the year. Sidney pulled out a fifth-place time of 14.03 to help the Roadrunners post 14 points in the event.
Holmes won her first 100m league title with an 11.60 performance, comfortably ahead of runner-up RaShandra Harris of Texas State (11.79). Her 10 points helped move the Roadrunners to 80 overall.
UTSA jumped into a third-place tie with SFA after a 10-point showing in the 800m, thanks to a third-place, 2:12.79 race from sophomore Diane Smith and a fifth-place, 2:14.26 clocking from junior Meghan Chance.
Sidney posted a key runner-up finish in the 400m hurdles, clocking a personal-best and regional-qualifying 59.79, while junior Demetria Holmes snuck into seventh in 1:05.62.
Rosalind Holmes nearly pulled off the sprint double, finishing second in the 200m in 23.81, a regional qualifier. Sam Houston State’s Quantinette Fields caught Holmes at the tape and finished in 23.77. Moszee added a fourth-place, 24.20 showing as UTSA scored 13 points to move into third with 113. Sam Houston had all but clinched the title with 162.5 while Texas State was second (122).
SFA caught UTSA with 18 points in the 5,000m and eventually finished third with 125 after a third-place showing in the 4x4.
In other finals action for the women, junior Natasha Ramos posted a personal-best 146-9 effort to finish fourth in the discus, junior Rita Lambert took sixth in the 1,500m in 4:44.36 and Moszee scratched for a point in the triple jump with a career-long 38-11 measure.
The men faced a tall challenge in the team standings entering Sunday’s action, as well, as the Roadrunners were in sixth place with 29 points, 44.5 back of SFA.
The 4x100m relay foursome of freshmen Cedric Harris and Steven Brown, junior T.R. Sissel and senior Curtis Johnson got things going with a season-best and regional-qualifying 40.33 to finish third in a tight race as six teams were under the regional standard of 40.66.
Junior Marques Mitchell then finished third in the 100m hurdles for the second straight year, clocking a 14.37 for six more points.
UTSA moved into fifth place with a 12-point effort in the 400m. Sophomore Scott Briscoe took fourth with a personal-best 47.74, while junior Davis Burnett and freshman Dominic Brown placed fifth (48.28) and sixth (48.97), respectively.
Johnson, Steven Brown and Harris contributed 10 points in the 100m, finishing fourth (10.70), sixth (10.79) and seventh (10.91), respectively.
The Roadrunners received double-digit points in the next track event, the 800m. Sophomore defending champion Larry Brooks was nipped at the line by Lamar’s Jake Champagne for top honors, finishing second in 1:50.95. Freshmen Brian Weirich and Eric Miller took sixth (1:54.02) and seventh (1:54.41), respectively, as UTSA added 13 more points to move into third place with 76 behind SFA (112.5) and Sam Houston (95).
That would be as close as UTSA would get as Sam Houston jumped into first place at 139 points thanks to a 21-point showing in the pole vault and 23-point effort in the 400m hurdles. Sissel finished sixth in the 400m hurdles in 52.76, one day after turning in a season-best 51.97 in the prelims.
Sam Houston maintained its lead after the 200m as Adam Wooten completed the 100m-200m double in 20.62. Johnson and Harris took fourth (21.19) and fifth (21.35), while Steven Brown was seventh in 21.37. Those 11 points put UTSA in third with 90 points behind the Bearkats and SFA (120.5).
The Bearkats wrapped up the title with 29 points in the 5,000m, putting them at 178 points or 52.5 points ahead of SFA (125.5).
UTSA held on for third by one point over Northwestern State, 96-95, after a third-place showing in the 4x400m relay. The foursome of Dominic Brown, Sissel, Briscoe and Burnett clocked a 3:10.86 behind Sam Houston (3:09.03) and Northwestern State (3:09.64).
Several UTSA athletes are qualified for the NCAA Midwest Regional on May 27-28 in Norman, Okla.
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