LSC Track & Field Championships: ASU's Adams, Lakey Headline Field Events
A pair of Angelo State athletes headlined the field event finals
from the 75th Lone Star Conference Track and Field Championships on
Friday at Javelina Stadium.
Aisha Adams won two events and picked up a fifth place in a third
event while Adree Lakey won one event and placed second in another.
Adams won the long jump with an NCAA Division II automatic
qualifying leap of 20-4.5 easily outdistancing the competition.
In fact, Angelo State took five of the six places possible in
the event with Andria Nussey, Kris Crockett and Kyndel Howell
taking second through fourth place, respectively, and Chrystal Ruiz
chipped in with a sixth place finish. Abilene Christian's
Amanda Clemons was the only other jumper to break the ASU
stranglehold with a fifth place finish.
Adams also won the high jump at 5-5.75 as she had fewer misses
than Tarleton State's Cassidi Porter who also cleared 5-5.75.
Ruiz and Howell took third and fourth while Texas
A&M-Kingsville's Cathryn Pratka garnered fifth place.
Eastern New Mexico's Tracey Young grabbed sixth place.
Lakey won the women's shot put with an LSC Meet and Javelina
Stadium record toss of 51-10.5 breaking her own conference mark set
last year. Teammate Culley Dawson took second place with a
toss of 47-5, but no one else came within 10 feet of Lakey.
Texas A&M-Commerce's LaShara Jefferson, Tarleton State's
Florquiesha Carrington, Aisha Adams and Tarleton's Hillary Moreno
took third through sixth place, respectively.
Lakey and Dawson took first and second in the hammer throw with
Dawson grabbing the gold medal. Dawson set an LSC and Stadium
record with a toss of 173-8. After Lakey, came Abilene
Christian's Paige Newby, Carrington, ENMU's Vyanca Vega and Moreno
to round out the scoring.
The final women's field event of the day was the pole vault that
was won by ACU's Callie Young. Young cleared 13-0.25 to
secure an automatic berth in the NCAA Division II National
Championships in San Angelo in two weeks. ASU's Danielle
Dorsey took second place with a clearance of 12-6.25. ACU's
Elizabeth Buyse, ASU's Whitney Law, Ruiz and Kingsville's Tiffany
Masters took third through sixth places, respectively.
On the men's side of the ledger, Abilene Christian's Nick Jones
was the only athlete to garner an automatic qualifying berth.
He won the shot put with a toss of 55-6.25. Four others
followed with NCAA Division II provisional tosses as Tarleton's
Casey Keeter took second and were followed by ASU's Wade Goode in
third, Kingsville's Abel Garcia in fourth and ASU's Andrew Crookham
in fifth. Commerce's Jeffery Rayome picked up a point with
his sixth place finish.
Abel Garcia had a quietly effective day for the Javelinas as he
was the only athlete to score in both the shot put and hammer
throws. Garcia took second place in the hammer losing out to
ASU's Chad Schaertl who won the event with a toss of 172-3.
ACU's Emery Dudensing, ASU's David Browne, Tarleton's Michael
Pratt and ACU's Richard Scales rounded out the scorers.
West Texas A&M's Gage Mayer won a jump-off against ACU's
Gerald Chenyi to win the first ever gold medal for the Buffs.
Mayer, Chenyi and Kingsville's Trent Hesseltine each cleared
6-6.75. Commerce's Leslie White and ASU's Ryan McWilliams
tied for fourth place while Tarleton's Tyler Rushing took sixth
place.
Chenyi picked up another second place finish in the long jump when
he leaped 23-0. The only athlete to better him was teammate
Ramon Sparks who leapt 23-9. McWilliams took third place and
was followed by Commerce's Lyndon Wyse, West Texas A&M's
Tramicah Young and ACU's Camille Vandendriessche.
- Courtesy of TAMUK sports information
