? Final results
AUSTIN - Three first-place finishes, five runner-up performances, six NCAA Regional qualifying marks and a school record highlighted the UTSA's men's track & field team efforts on Saturday at the Texas Twilight meet at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
"We were able to get regional marks in just about every event we wanted to today," head coach Aaron Fox said. "Our goal this season was to back off early in the season and begin to turn things on beginning with this meet. Things have gone to plan and now we have two weeks to get ready to go after a conference championship in Nacogdoches."
Leading the way was junior Luke Johnson, who finished second in both the shot put and hammer with regional qualifiers. Johnson broke his own UTSA record in the hammer for the second week in a row with a throw of 56.60m (185-8), which is the second-best mark in the Southland Conference this season. The Amarillo native also earned runner-up honors in the shot with his second regional mark in the last three meets (16.83m/55-2 3/4).
Seniors Larry Brooks and Benson Cheserek, sophomore Gaston Griffin and the Roadrunners 400-meter relay team also collected NCAA marks during the day-long meet.
Brooks ran a 1:49.83 in finishing second in the 800 meters, Cheserek clocked a personal-best 9:00.58 in a third-place effort in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Griffin raced to a personal-record 46.97 in a runner-up performance in the 400 meters (top collegian). All three of those times rank first in the league this year.
Meanwhile, the quartet of freshman Teddy Williams, senior Scott Briscoe, junior Cedric Harris and junior Steven Brown circled the oval in 40.55 to win the 400-meter relay.
Freshman Mo Jackson and senior All-American Brandon Buteuax finished 1-2 in the long jump. Jackson won with a wind-aided leap of 7.01m (23-0), while Buteuax jumped 6.96m (22-10). The Roadrunners other gold medal of the day came in the meet's final event, the 1,600-meter relay (3:10.46).
The SLC Championships are scheduled to begin on Friday, May 4.
