WKU track opens with 17 top-10 finishes at Vanderbilt

Published 8:36 pm Saturday, December 1, 2018

Western Kentucky’s track and field team totaled 17 top-10 finishes Saturday at the 21-team Vanderbilt Indoor Opener in Nashville.

In her first-ever indoor meet representing WKU, Annastacia Forrester was second in the women’s high jump. The junior cleared 5 feet, 6 inches. Forrester added a fourth-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 19-01.5.

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WKU’s Brianna Eskridge recorded a top-10 finish in the high jump and added another ninth-place finish in the long jump (18-01).

Getter Lemberg contributed a sixth-place finish in the women’s pole vault for WKU as the senior notched a vault of 11-7.75.

On the track, Maor Seged added another top-10 finish for the WKU squads as he ran 8.72 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to clock the 10th-fastest time on the day.

In the men’s 300 meters, Will Bush posted a 36.68 mark to earn a seventh-place finish.

Four Hilltopper seniors finished in the top eight of the men’s 600. Oliver Alexandre led the charge with a second-place showing with a mark of 1:21.73. Fellow senior Kymari Gates clocked the third-place time of 1:22.98. Austin Hayes finished seventh in 1:24.38, while Martin Owusu was eighth in 1:24.46.

In the men’s one-mile race, freshman Dedrick Troxell posted a 4:25.41 time to earn fifth place. Fellow freshman Clint Sherman added a second-place showing in the men’s 3,000 meters with a time of 9:18.76.

Both of the WKU men’s 4×400-meter relay squads finished in the top five. The first unit, comprised of Alexandre, Kaven Berry, Seged and Bush, clocked a time of 3:12.92, while the second group (Gates, Hayes, Owusu and David Saruni) finished in 3:18.57 for fourth place.

For the Lady Toppers, Juannae Lewis clocked a 39.64 in the 300 meters to finish fourth. Sophomore Aairiona Hayden-Ransom recorded a 5:57.26 mile to finish 10th.

WKU will be back in action Jan. 12 at the Purdue-hosted Gene Edmonds Open.