MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - The ULM men's track & field squad
wrapped up a solid showing at the Indoor Sun Belt Championships with a sixth
place on Sunday.
The Warhawks finished with 61 team points, finishing one
point behind South Alabama for fifth. Western Kentucky ran away with the title
as they compiled 160.50 points in the two-day event.
In all, the men and women combined to break six school
records on the weekend, including three on Sunday.
Junior Daniel Mutai broke a school record for the second
straight day, this time in the 5,000-meter run. Mutai clocked a time of
14:30.31 to break the school record by 32 seconds and finish in third place.
Mutai also finished in fifth place in the men's 1-mile run
(4:15.08) earlier in the day.
The Warhawks also got a third third-place finish from senior
Josh Howard in the triple jump (15.36 meters) and a third-place finish from
senior Luther Ambrose in the 55-meter dash (6.35).
On the women's side, freshman Teona Glave finished seventh
in the 800-meter run a day after breaking the school record in the event
yesterday in the prelims. Glave clocked a time of 2:16.11 on Sunday to earn two
team points for the Warhawk women.
In addition, both the men and women's 4X400-meter relay
teams broke school records Sunday. The men clocked a time of 3:16.82 to finish
in third place while the women ran a time of 3:51.25 and also finished in third
place.
