Complete Results

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Three Colonels notched Ohio Valley Conference-best performances as the Eastern Kentucky University track and field team competed at Marshall's Thundering Herd Invitational over the weekend.
 
Senior David Bascuñana kicked off the meet on a high note, cruising to victory in the men's 5,000 meters on Friday night with an OVC-best of 14:31.3. Freshman Remi Schyns took second in the race with a time of 14:46.3 (No. 4 in the OVC).
 
Freshman James Sugira – a cross country All-American in the fall – made his track debut on Saturday, winning the men's mile with an OVC-best time of 4:11.1 Junior Samuel Abascal – the defending OVC outdoor 1,500 meters champion – was right behind Sugira in second (4:11.5 / No. 2 in the OVC).
 
Senior Yoshua Reed, meanwhile, won the men's heptathlon with 4,977 points. Reed is the defending OVC champion in the indoor heptathlon and the outdoor decathlon.
 
Reed recorded two top-five OVC marks during the heptathlon, grabbing a personal-best and track-record time of 8.48 in the 60-meter hurdles (No. 4 in the OVC) and leaping to a meet-record mark of 6-6 in the high jump (No. 5 in the OVC).
 
Other OVC top-five performances from the weekend included junior Nickson Rotich in the 400 meters (49.03 / No. 5), freshman Spencer Carman in the 5,000 meters (15:26.3 / No. 5), freshman Brandon Brookfield in the pole vault (14-5.25 / No. 3), and junior Jacob Alleyne in the triple jump (44-8.25 / No. 4).
 
On the women's side, several Colonels recorded top-10 OVC performances over the weekend.
 
Senior Alondra Hoyos finished fifth out of 42 competitors in the mile with a 5:06.3 (No. 3 in the OVC). Senior Meggan Grams (5:08.2 / No. 4 in the OVC), and freshmen Lou Trois (5:10.1 / No. 8) and Saskia Pingpank (5:13.2 / No. 10) also ran well in the mile.
 
Grams (2:21.0 / No. 9) and Trois (2:21.7 / No. 10) earned notable times in the 800 meters, as well.
 
Senior Nicole Goderwis recorded a personal-best 57.90 in the 400 meters (No. 9 in the OVC).
 
Junior Hailey Lacy, meanwhile, finished sixth in the heptathlon with the No. 2 score in the OVC (3,187 points).
 
On Friday night, senior Gladys Cheruiyot went 17:45.5 in the 5,000 meters (No. 7), while freshman Jeanne Charat Reix clocked a time of 18:06.4 (No. 10).
 
EKU will split next weekend between the Rod McCravy Memorial in Lexington and the Camel City Elite in Winston Salem, North Carolina.