SAN ANTONIO — Orla Brothers finished 14th in the women's 400-meter hurdles preliminary rounds to highlight Thursday action for UTSA at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Battling windy conditions, Brothers clocked a 1:01.02 to cross fifth in her heat and tie for the 14th-fastest time in the 82-person field in the first race of the meet for the Roadrunners. The freshman from Sussex, England, just missed earning one of the nine qualifying spots for the final less than one week after winning the same event at the Roadrunner Invitational.
Sierra Andres also raced in the 400m hurdles, stopping the clock in 1:07.03 for 72nd.
Meanwhile, Justin Gerbrecht and Andrew Pirog were in action in the men's 400m hurdles half an hour later.
Gerbrecht, a senior from Houston, won his heat with a season-best 54.06 clocking, a time that was 29th among 80 competitors.
Pirog, a junior out of San Antonio Reagan High School, was third in his heat and 35th overall in 54.70.
The quartet of intermediate hurdlers made up the only entries for UTSA on Thursday at the 92nd running of the annual meet.
On Friday morning, Devall Harris and Patrick Prince are slated to run in the prelims of the men's 110m hurdles and the men's and women's 4x400m relay teams also will be in action. The men's distance medley relay team will race at 6:05 p.m.
In Friday afternoon field events, Andre Douglas will compete in the men's triple jump at 12:30 p.m., Davante Edwards is set for the men's high jump at 1 p.m. and Danielle Spence will represent the women in the triple jump at 3 p.m.
The men's 4x800m relay squad is scheduled to run at 10:40 a.m. Saturday and the men's and women's 4x400m relays will close out the meet beginning at 4:05 p.m.
