Day 2 Results I Day 2 Team Scores

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Eastern Kentucky University senior Yoshua Reed and junior Samuel Abascal both won gold medals on day two of the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
 
With one day remaining at the meet, the EKU men sit in second place with 58 points, while the women's team is in sixth with 22 points.
 
Reed opened the day by winning gold in the men's decathlon. It is the crowning achievement on a career that saw Reed win five OVC multi championships (three decathlons, two heptathlons). He scored 6,568 points to claim victory.
 
Freshman Bryce Favors-Charleston finished sixth in the decathlon with 4,724 points, while freshman Tanner Clough was seventh with 4,427 points.
 
Abascal closed the day by winning the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase. The reigning OVC Male Track Athlete of the Year cruised to victory in a time of 9:03.71. Reigning OVC Freshman of the Year Remi Schyns took silver in the race with a time of 9:05.29. Senior Erick Rotich, in only his second steeplechase race ever, earned a big fifth-place finish with a time of 9:08.68.
 
Favors-Charleston also scored in the high jump for the men, finishing sixth with a clutch personal-best leap of 6-5.5. Freshman Matthew Jackson added two points with a seventh-place finish in the long jump (22-3).
 
Favors-Charleston and Jackson also both advanced to Saturday's finals in the 100 meters. Favors-Charleston ran the second-fastest qualifying time of the day, a personal-best 10.82. Jackson, meanwhile, finished seventh in the prelims with a personal-best 10.94.
 
Other Colonel men who advanced in prelims on Friday included Reed in the 110-meter hurdles (15.33), senior JP Ferraro in the 400 meters (48.76) and junior Nickson Rotich in the 800 meters (1:55.04).
 
Two Colonels scored for the women's team on Friday.  Junior Hailey Lacy took sixth in the heptathlon with a score of 4,564 points. Freshman Saskia Pingpank, meanwhile, earned a sixth-place finish in the steeplechase, clocking a time of 11:10.20.
 
Sophomore Quantasia Perry turned in arguably the biggest performance of the day for the women, albeit in a prelim. Perry ran the fastest qualifying time in the 100 meters, a personal-best 11.82. That time moves her to No. 4 on EKU's all-time 100 meters list.
 
Sophomore Ashley Barr also advanced to Saturday's final in the 800 meters, clocking a time of 2:14.1 in Friday's prelim.
 
Championship Saturday kicks off at 12:00 p.m. ET with the shot put and should wrap up about 6:00 p.m. ET with the 4x400-meter relays.