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Texas Longhorn Relay shatters 27-year old record at Texas Relays
The No. 12 Texas Men's Track and Field team saw another record fall as the 4x800-meter relay team captured the Texas Relays event championship in registering an all-time UT best. Senior John Rouse added an NCAA regional qualifying throw in the hammer.

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - The 4x800-meter relay group shattered the UT school record and senior John Rouse joined the list of NCAA regional qualifiers as the No. 12 Texas Men's Track and Field team wrapped up day-two competition at the 81st Annual Texas Relays.

The quartet, comprised of All-Americans, NCAA and Big 12 champions and world record holders, rounded their home track at the Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium on Thursday in a record-setting seven minutes, 17.63 seconds.

Junior Tevan Everett, redshirt junior Kyle Miller, senior Leo Manzano and junior Jacob Hernandez combined to break a 27-year old record of 7:18.1 (hand timed) clocked by Larry Johnson, Chris Bucknall, George Collins and Owen Hamilton in 1981. It marks the first time since 1988 a UT relay has cracked the top five in the 3,200-meter race.

Everett (Bel-Aire, Kan.), the two-time Big 12 champion in the indoor 600-yard run, started the record-setting relay. He handed off to Miller (Katy, Texas) - the reigning Big 12 champion in the indoor 1,000-meter run -- who exchanged with four-time NCAA and Big 12 champion, Texas senior Leo Manzano (Marble Falls, Texas). Two-time Big 12 800-meter champion, junior Jacob Hernandez (Magnolia, Texas), anchored the quartet to victory. Three of the four legs - Everett, Hernandez and Manzano - won the 2008 NCAA distance-medley relay national championship, and Miller, Hernandez and Manzano were a part of the world-record setting DMR at the Tyson Invitational on Feb. 16, 2008.

In the field events, senior John Rouse (Kaufman, Texas) became the sixth NCAA regional qualifier on the Longhorns' team. Rouse, who has made the trip to the NCAA Midwest Region meet twice during his first three seasons, tossed 189-6 (57.77m) and finished in ninth place.

Senior Donovan Kilmartin (Eagle, Idaho) pulled out of the decathlon after not registering a height in the pole vault. He started the day with a sixth-place performance in the 110-meter hurdles. He cleared each hurdle in 14.69 behind a 2.3 wind reading. In the discus, Kilmartin finished 12th in 122-2 (37.25m).

POST MEET QUOTES
Texas Head coach Bubba Thornton
(On the 4x800-meter relay setting the UT school record)
You come out and watch the 4x800-meter relay. They get a school record out of this thing. It was four great guys, all Big 12 champions and All-Americans, world record holders and national championships. That's the kind of performance you would expect from those guys. It's nice to see it in the record book especially for Leo. I'm hoping we get this weather because I'm thinking we will see something special from him [in the invitational mile run] on Saturday.

(On Kilmartin's performance in the pole vault)
I was disappointed for Donovan but there's a life lesson there for him. Just because you have dotted your `I's' and crossed your `T's', sometimes things won't work. It didn't work today. If you said there was one thing that Donovan could do, it would be make the opening bar in the pole vault. You could almost say he could do it blindfolded. It was really disappointing. Now what it means is, come the Big 12 Championships, that's 10 points [towards the team score] because he's not going to fail again, and we're going to need him.

Texas Junior Jacob Hernandez
(On anchoring the record-setting 4x800-meter relay)
I was pretty excited to do it. This is my first anchor for the University of Texas. My coach and my teammates let me know that it's a big responsibility. It's a big role. Usually, it's Leo [Manzano] in the driver's seat. So, it's an honor to do an anchor leg.

(On his thoughts during the race)
I saw Leo coming around the corner, and I got pretty excited. We basically had the lead the whole way, so that really motivated me to get out there and run fast.

# UT #

Kishelle Paul earns regional qualifying mark at Texas Relays The Flyin' Frogs will resume action on Friday in Austin

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - The Flyin' Frogs Kishelle Paul posted an NCAA regional qualifying mark in the women's 400-meter hurdles to lead TCU on the second day of the 81st annual Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.

Paul, a junior from Marietta, Ga., clocked an NCAA regional qualifying time of 59.85 to place first in her heat and third overall in preliminary action of the women's 400-meter hurdles. The junior will compete in the finals on Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

Junior Meaghan Peoples also competed on Thursday in the 400-meter hurdles and finished second overall in her heat with a time of 1:01.86, but failed to qualify for Saturday's finals.

In the men's 400-meter hurdles, Aaron Macklin posted a fifth-place finish in his heat, but failed to qualify for Saturday's final.

TCU will continue competition at the Texas Relays on Friday. Live results and video will be available on www.gofrogs.com.

Brandon Hoskins Breaks Liberty, Big South Decathlon Records

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - Liberty senior Brandon Hoskins backed up a strong first-day decathlon effort with an even better performance on Thursday at the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Hoskins finished third with a Liberty and Big South-record 7,800 points, highlighting the Flames' performances on day two at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

Hoskins' record-breaking effort was just one of several noteworthy Liberty performances on Thursday. Fellow decathlete Daniel Newell (Jr., Roanoke, Va.) also achieved a career-best score, 6,962, provisionally qualifying for the national meet. In the hammer throw, both Jon Hart (Sr., Wyomissing, Pa.) and Clendon Henderson (Sr., Meadow, Texas) recorded their best marks of the young season, placing third and eighth, respectively.

Hoskins (Garden City, Texas) set three personal bests on his way to recording an automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships and a "B" qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Trials. He now ranks No. 2 on the NCAA national performance list behind Thursday's runner-up, Florida State freshman Gonzalo Barroilhet. The reigning NCAA national heptathlon champion withstood Hoskins' second-day charge by totaling 7,828 points.

The decathlon winner was former Texas standout Trey Hardee, now competing for Nike. The first-day leader tallied 8,371 points to outdistance the field.

Hoskins broke the school and conference record of Ryan Werner, which had stood since June 1, 1995. Werner, Liberty's inaugural Big South Hall of Fame inductee, notched 7,662 points to finish fourth at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships that day.

Hoskins also shattered his own personal-best score of 7,561, established at the 2007 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The Texas native matched his first-day score of 3,900 during Thursday's five events.

Pushed along by a strong tailwind, Hoskins qualified for the IC4A Championships in the day's opening event, the 110-meter hurdles. His time, a personal-best 14.85 seconds, proved a sign of things to come.

Hoskins really made his move in the eighth and ninth events, the pole vault and the javelin. He was the third-highest vaulter among the decathletes, soaring to a personal-best 16-2.75 clearance and claiming another IC4A qualification in the process.

The senior then unleashed a personal-best 200-9 on his third and final javelin throw, which turned out to be the day's best mark. Hoskins' IC4A-qualifying throw ties him with Brian Harrell for fourth on Liberty's all-time performance list. It was also the furthest javelin throw by a Flames athlete in 11 years.

Newell's final point tally of 6,962, good for 13th place, marked nearly a 200-point improvement over his previous high score. The junior raced to the day's second-fastest 1,500-meter time, 4:35.53, ensuring him provisional qualification to the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships for the first time in his Liberty career.

Hart and Henderson were part of a loaded hammer field, which saw 11 out of 16 entrants post NCAA regional-qualifying marks. Hart, competing in his best event, uncorked a season-best 213-11 heave on his fifth of six throws. He moved up to No. 3 on the NCAA national performance list, trailing only Thursday's top two finishers--UCLA junior Boldizsar Kocsor (222-5, first place) and North Carolina freshman Walter Henning (221-4, second place). The Liberty senior posted his second-straight lofty finish at the Texas Relays, following up his fifth-place showing in the hammer throw last season.

Meanwhile, Henderson's top mark, 192-0, came on his third throw. His career-best distance makes him only the fourth Liberty hammer thrower ever to exceed 190 feet and netted him eighth place in the competition. Henderson also became the first NCAA Division I thrower to reach 190 feet in both the hammer and discus this season. He has qualified for the NCAA East Regional Championships in both disciplines.

Liberty athletes will be divided between two meets on Friday. Matt Parker (Jr., Rome, N.Y.) will run the 110-meter hurdles and Henderson will throw the discus at day three of the Texas Relays. Meanwhile, the Flames' distance runners will compete in various events at the Duke Asics Invitational.

Great Day for Washington State Hammer Throwers and Moody Reaches NCAA Decathlon AQ at Texas Relays

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - Washington State's hammer throwers McKenzie Garberg and Phil MacArthur, and decathlete Rickey Moody had outstanding performances Thursday at the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the University of Texas Austin campus.

McKenzie Garberg broke the Washington State University women's hammer record with her improved NCAA Regional Qualifying toss of 196-feet, 3 inches (59.89m). Garberg, a senior from Benton City, Wash. who earned All-America honors in the discus last season, took over All-American Andrea Thornton's school hammer record of 195-0 (59.44), set in 2001. Garberg broke the record on her fifth attempt of the day and finished third in the 16-woman field of competitors.

When asked if she was satisfied with the record Garberg replied, "No. I'm still growing. I could have done better and I will do better during the rest of this season."

Junior Phil MacArthur (Selkirk, Wash.) took fifth place in the men's hammer with an improved NCAA RQ and PR toss of 199-0 (60.65m). MacArthur uncorked his lifetime-best throw with the first of his six-competition throws.
"We set Phil's training for him to peak at this meet," WSU Associate Coach and throws coach Debra Farwell said. "You cross your fingers and hope that everything we did in practice and in training will get him ready for this meet and actually it did. We need to make his transition from the second and third turns a little bit better and I think the guy's going to be unstoppable."

Rickey Moody, a senior from Puyallup, Wash., finished the decathlon with a personal-best total of 7,787 points, which placed him fourth in the overall competition and third place among collegians. Former Texas All-American and collegiate decathlon record-holder Trey Hardy won the event with 8,381 points. The top collegian was Gonzalo Barrolihet, a freshman from Florida State, with 7,828 points, while Brandon Hoskins, a senior from Liberty University, finished third overall with 7,800 points.

Moody opened the day with a wind-aided PR time of 14.55 seconds in the 110m hurdles. He threw the discus a distance of 151-10 (46.27m), which is his lifetime-best mark. Moody cleared a PR height in the pole vault of 13-11 1/4 (4.25m) and then threw the javelin a PR distance of 197-6 (60.20m). Moody ran a 1500m PR time of 5:09.87, an improvement of 2 minutes. His 7,787 points is the second-best decathlon mark in WSU history, behind only Simon Shirley's 1988 total of 8,036 points for 15th place at the Seoul Olympics. Moody had outdoor PR marks in seven of the 10 events at the Texas Relays.

After the competition Moody said, "It all could have been better but I'm happy and content with that total. I'll take it. This is one of the first competitions that it has come together so consistently. There was a lot of great competition out there too. Knowing that everyone had already scored 7,000 points to get into the meet, I knew I had to step my game up going into this to come out in the top three. Now I know what events I need to work on to improve when I get back to training."

"Rickey had a pretty solid day," WSU Head Coach Rick Sloan said. "He did a great job and he competed very, very well and managed the competition well. I'm very proud of the job he did competitively. We are looking at all the things that he can improve upon and he can go over 8,000 points. He needs to stay healthy and keep moving forward in some events, like the vault could be a lot more points for him."

Former Cougar All-American Julie Pickler, now competing for Asics, won the women's heptathon with a personal-best total of 5,990 points.

Selected members of Cougar track and field team members will compete at the Texas Relays Friday and Saturday, while another squad will compete at the Stanford Invitational Meet Friday and Saturday.

REISING LOOKS TO POST AUTOMATIC-QUALIFYING SCORE IN DECATHLON

Tucson, Ariz. - The Husker multi-event group opened up the 2008 Jim Click Shootout today with strong showings in both the men's pentathlon and the women's heptathlon. Senior co-captain Skyler Reising is in the hunt to not only be the event winner but to also post an NCAA automatic-qualifying score. On the women's side Erin Hannon and Kim Shubert locked up NCAA Midwest Regional spots as they both cleared the 5-8 ¾ (1.75) bar in the heptathlon high jump.

Reising posted the top collegiate score on day one with 4,071 points. He trails only Jamie Adjetey-Nelson who is competing unattached with 4,162 points. Reising climbed up the leaderboard as he set new personal bests in three of the five events. He knocked .22 seconds off of his 100-meter time to finish at 11.07, increased his shot put by 2-6 1/2 feet as his best toss landed at 47-6 1/4 (14.48) and improved his high jump by 3/4 of an inch as his highest clearance on the day was the 6-10 ¼ (2.09) bar. Reising's current personal best in the decathlon sits at 7,244 points and the automatic-qualifying mark for the NCAA Outdoor Championships is 7,500 points.

Patrick Burke also competed for the Big Red on day one and currently sits No. 5 overall with 3,442 points. Burke set a new personal best in the 100 meters with a time of 11.37 and hopes with a strong day tomorrow that he will hit the NCAA provisional-qualifying score of 6,900 points.

On the women's side freshman Rachel Butler leads the way for the Huskers as she sits in third place with 3,061 points after one day of the women's heptathlon. Veterans Kim Shubert and Erin Hannon are right behind Butler in fourth and fifth place with 3,050 and 2,966 points, respectively. The Huskers are facing very tough competition as the current leader, Jacquelyn Johnson of Arizona State, won the 2008 NCAA indoor pentathlon and Shevell Quinley of Arizona, who currently sits in second place, finished in third at the indoor championships.

"I was real happy with the way we came out and performed today. We have a shot at hitting some good scores tomorrow," stated multi-event coach Kris Grimes.

Action will pick back up tomorrow with the men's 110-meter hurdles starts at Noon (Central) and the women's long jump at 1 p.m.

LSU WOMEN WIN FIRST 4X800 TITLE IN 23 YEARS ON DAY 1 AT TEXAS RELAYS

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - The LSU women's track and field team kicked off the 81st Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on Thursday by running away with its first 4x800-meter relay title in 23 years with a winning time of 8 minutes, 45.04 seconds at Mike A. Myers Stadium.

The Lady Tigers were running third in the event when senior Lindsay Day passed the baton to freshman Brittany Hall on the second leg, but Hall ran a team best 2:09.08 split to give the quartet the lead for good at the second exchange.

Junior Kayann Thompson extended the lead with a 2:10.47 third leg, while sophomore LaTavia Thomas cruised to victory on the anchor to finish 30 meters ahead of her nearest competitor. The foursome from Baylor was more than five second back in second place with a time of 8:50.10.

The Lady Tigers won their first 4x800 title at the Texas Relays since 1985 and just their second in the meet's storied history. Their 8:45.04 clocking ranks ninth on LSU's all-time list in the event.

"It's special any time you line up and win a relay title by that kind of a margin at an event like the Texas Relays because these races are so competitive," said LSU head coach Dennis Shaver. "Lindsay put us in a good position on the first leg, and we really just took over the race after that. LaTavia got the stick with a pretty big lead and put it in cruise control through the finish."

While the Lady Tigers won the women's 4x800-meter relay title, the Tigers just missed making it a sweep as they finished runner-up to the Texas Longhorns with a time of 7:19.89.

The foursome of senior Michael Hendry, sophomore Jamaal James, senior Reuben Twijukye and senior Elkana Kosgei combined for the fourth-fastest time in the school history, finishing just two seconds behind the homestanding Longhorns who won this year's title at 7:17.63.

Junior Rabun Fox was the Tigers' top individual performer on the afternoon after recording his third straight personal best in the hammer throw to open the outdoor season. Fox finished fourth in the event with a seasonal best throw of 212 feet, 6 inches on his sixth and final attempt of the competition, improving upon his previous best of 210-11 set a week ago.

Sophomore Chris Bless also recorded a new personal record in the hammer throw with a mark of 183-9. Junior Patrick Lee enjoyed a seasonal best performance of his own Thursday by qualifying fifth for Saturday's final in the 400 hurdles with a regional qualifying time of 51.87 seconds.

The action continues early Friday morning as the Tigers and Lady Tigers run in the preliminary round of the 4x100-meter relays beginning at 9:30 p.m. CDT. Junior Anna Lyons kicks things off in the field events as the women's javelin competition is set to begin at 10 a.m. Live results from Friday's festivities will be provided by www.texassports.com.

Boldizsar Kocsor Takes Hammer Crown At Texas Relays
Junior wins second straight hammer competition in as many weeks

Results

AUSTIN, Texas - For the second straight week, junior Boldizsar Kocsor notched a win in the hammer throw, this time at the prestigious Texas Relays in Austin on Thursday. Kocsor won the event with a throw of 222-5, just one inch shy of his lifetime-best (222-6) which he threw last weekend at the Cal/Nevada Championships.

Kocsor is the No. 1 ranked hammer thrower in the NCAA this season and won the event by just over a foot on Thursday.

Also on Thursday, the Bruin pole vaulters were in action as freshman Johnny Quinn and senior Chris Bencomo led the way with equal clearances of 17-0.75. Quinn placed second based on misses, while Bencomo finished third. The mark equaled Quinn's lifetime-best and was a new season-best for Bencomo.

Junior Bobby Talley equaled his lifetime-best with a mark of 16-6.75 as he finished tied for sixth in the competition.

The Bruins continue competing at the Texas Relays on Friday, while the distance runners will open up at the Stanford Invitational.