Track & Field: Lynx Show Well at Top Times Meet

[January 30, 2018] 

The Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams had another good weekend at the Top Times meet hosted by Illinois Wesleyan. There were over a 1,000 competitors ranging from NJCAA to NCAA DI programs represented at this event. Overall, the men’s team finished 5th out of 17 teams and the women were 3rd.

Placing in the top 8 for the Women’s team were Erin Layne and April Goetz in the 800. They were 3rd and 6th respectively. Goetz was also the meet champion in the 5,000. Qutaya Burse was 5th in the 60 hurdles, 5th in the high jump and 3rd in the long jump. The 4x400 Relay team of Payton Marr, Brianna Neal, Asia Rance and Erin Layne finished 7th. Carissa Tinsley and Bralon Mack were 2nd and 6th in the shot put. Tinsley also placed 5th in the weight throw.

On the men’s side, Rodman Teltull and Kane Jackson were 3rd and 6th in the 60. Terrell Robinson was 2nd in the 5,000. The 4x400 Relay team of Desmond Berdell, Ed Lopez, Abdoulaye Diawara and Chris Raymond came in 4th. The DMR relay of Ed Lopez, Dillon Butler, Chris Raymond and Elijah Grewal was 4th. Sabree Bakari was 1st in the high jump. Tylin Hall was 7th in pole vault. Kane Jackson finished 7th in the long jump. Cameron Harris won the triple jump competition and Jaiden Nelson was 8th in the shot and 4th in the weight throw.

LC Head Track Coach Brian Herron said, “We had a very successful day today. There were a lot of strong competitors here and we knew points were going to be hard to come by. As a team we continued to improve off of last week’s results. The work that they are putting in is paying off.”

The Lynx will be in action again on February 10th at the Fighting Scotts Invite hosted by Monmouth College.

[Mark Tippett
Lincoln College
Sports Information]