SEARCY, Ark. – Recording five top five finishes in a tough meet at Harding University, the East Texas Baptist University men's track and field team came away with great times against NCAA Division I, II, III and NAIA programs. Overall, ETBU had 14 top 10 finishes.
Donyvan Givens had two of the five top five finishes in the field events participating in the long jump and triple jump. He leapt 12.98 meters in the triple jump for fourth place and followed that with at fifth place finish in the long jump at 6.47 meters.
Rangel Miller came in third place in the 400 meter dash out of 24 runners at 49.06 and was the second overall finisher of NCAA runners. Trinten Scott had the highest finish of all participants with a second place finish in the triple jump at 13.3 meters. He came in ahead of four NCAA Division II participants.
Brandon Powell then finished in fifth place in the 100 meter dash at 10.81 out of 48 runners. He was less than 0.4 seconds off the winner and had the top NCAA Division III time. The top three finishers were all from Arkansas-Little Rock posting times of 10.42, 10.9, and 10.66.
ETBU will next compete at the Stephen F. Austin Invite on Friday.
TIMES/PLACES
Trinten Scott
Long Jump 6.21m 8th
Triple Jump 13.3om 2nd
Donyvan Givens
Long Jump 6.47m 5th
Triple Jump 12.98m 4th
200m 23.42 29th
Robert Williams
Long Jump 6.01m 13th
Stephen Kelsey
Long Jump 5.35m 20th
Triple Jump 11.13 9th
Landry Pedroza
Javelin 42.10m 6th
Trenton Milner
Pole Vault 4.21m 8th
Elijah Baker
1500m 4:22.82 12th
5000m 17:24.81 18th
Xavier Garza
1500m 4:35.35 14th
800m 2:10.84 23rd
Jaycob Kenney
1500m 4:45.40 20th
5000m 18:32.45 21st
Keithon Glenn
1500m 5:53.09 23rd
800m 2:19.64 29th
Hunter Gregory
1500m 4:58.95 24th
5000m 17:30.57 19th
Torrance Lattimore
110m 17.47 8th
400H 1:03.20 8th
De'Leon Jones
110m 18.59 10th
400H 1:07.59
Rangel Miller
400m 49.06 3rd
200m 22.24 12th
Carlos Torres-Izqueirdo
400m 51.34 8th
200m 23.39 26th
TraMikal Davis
400m 51.76 11th
Brandon Powell
100m 10.81 5th
200m 21.95 8th
Caster Brandon
100m 11.01 14th
Detaveon Lewis
100m 11.06 18th
Malik Cooper
100m 11.27 24th
Quinten Ford
800m 2:10.14 22nd
Aiden Berwise
400H 1:00.82
