Knights Indoor T&F Competes at Wittenberg

December 7, 2019

Springfield, OH – The Kentucky Christian University indoor track and field team entered the Wittenberg Tiger Opener, as did several teams, for their first meet of the 2019-20 indoor season but there was one difference this season … it is KCU's first!

The men's team had several Top-10 placements led by their sprints. In the 60M Dash, the Knights placed four runners in the top six runners. Tyquan Flemming (FR/Cincinnati, Oh) won the event with a time of 7.00 sec flat followed by a 3^rd place finish by Lavell Henry (NA/Willard, NC) (FR/Burgaw, NC) (NA/Willard, NC) (FR/Burgaw, NC) (7.17), Mahkel Henry (7.22) in 5^th and Tyson Hall (NA/Prichard, WV) (FR/Ceredo, WV) (NA/Prichard, WV) (FR/Ceredo, WV) (7.27) in 6^th. The 500M Dash featured a 4^th place time for Tanner Owens (NA/Huntington, WV) (FR/Wayne, WV) (NA/Huntington, WV) (FR/Wayne, WV) of 1:14.69

Moving into the some of the other running events, the 800M distance saw Bennett Hodson (FR/Leesburg, OH) take a 6^th place finish with a time of 2:04.86 with the KCU relay team in the same distance place 2^nd with the team of Henry, M., Flemming, Hall and Henry, L running a 1:31.4. The final running event in which Kentucky Christian placed runners was the mile as James Overholser (NA/Sharpsburg, KY) (5:09.99) took 3^rd and Joshua Watkins (NA/Lexington, KY) ran a 5:35.99 that was good enough for 5^th.

In the field, the efforts of Flemming (6.63M) and Hall (6.58M) in the long jump earned them a 2^nd and 5^th place finish, respectively.

On the women's side, Emily Brackob (NA/Taylorsville, KY) and Haleigh Fuller (NA/Proctorville, OH) earned 3^rd and 4^th place finishes in the mile with times of 6:35.99 and 6:51.72.

Maggie Miller (FR/Greenup, KY) finished 10^th in the weight throw with her best toss of the day of 11.80M. In the high jump, Jordann Hatten (NA/Prichard, WV) cleared 1.4M which was good enough for 9^th.

NOTES:

Tyquan Fleming, Lavell Henry and Tyson Hall are all in the top 25 nationally in the 60m dash. Fleming 7th, Hall 22nd and Henry 25th. **Fleming holds the wittenberg facility 60m dash record at 7.00

Long Jump Fleming is 10th and Hall is 14th nationally

Evan Leist is 18th in the Mile, Bennett Hodson in 11th for the 800

Jordann Hatten is 21st nationally in the high jump

Maggie Miller is 25th in the weight throw

Hodson-800, Hatten- High Jump, Miller- Weight Throw, Fleming, Hall, M.Henry, L.Henry-60m Hall, Fleming-Long Jump, Julia Graves- 5,000 all obtained AAC auto qualifying marks for the conference championship.

Both Knights squads competed well and we look forward to more events from our newest teams. Congratualtions!