Sprints Get Meet Wins, Sammons Takes Discus

Saturday, March 26

Arlington, Texas

9:00 AM

University of Oklahoma

Bobby Lane Invitational

Sprints Get Meet Wins, Sammons Takes Discus

March 26, 2016 | Track and Field

By: Akilah Laster

NORMAN - Oklahoma sprinters blew by their competitors on the second day of the Bobby Lane Invitational in Arlington, Texas, to produce a pair of meet titles.

On a windy Saturday, the Sooners' track and field teams notched the top spots in the women's 4x100-meter relay on the combined efforts of Ama Pipi, Daunicia Demerson, Daye Shon Roberson and Leya Buchanan, who ran a 44.55. That time ranks 10th on the all- time list. Demerson also earned a meet title with a 54.49 PR in the 400.

Their efforts were matched by Chase Sammons, who won his first meet of the outdoor season in the discus with a personal best 186-10.00 mark. That moved him into a tie for fourth with Kevin Bookout on OU's all-time top 10.

Chase Sammons moves to fourth on OU's all-time list with his 186-10.00 discus mark on Saturday at the Bobby Lane Invitational in Arlington, Texas.

The Sooners also saw personal best performances in the 100-meter dash, 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash. Pipi finished as the runner-up, the highest place for OU entries, in the 200 after recording a 23.71. The sophomore's previous best was a 24.21 from a season ago.

Bianca Brazil and Olivia Haggerty also saw career bests in the 100 dash and 100-meter hurdles, respectively. Brazil, a junior, finished 11th with a time of 11.92 in her second individual race of the season. Haggerty, who had her outdoor debut on Saturday, ran a 13.67 to improve from 13.91. Her time Saturday ranks as the eighth best in school history.

"I saw a variety of things today and Nene (Daunicia Demerson) and Chase (Sammons) got PRs today along with Ama (Pipi), Olivia (Haggerty) and several others," said head coach Jim VanHootegem. "Those were some good performances and I saw others that were trying to earn their way on the bus permanently to be a part of the travel team."

OU's success on Saturday comes after Sooners Charles Nguyen (200-9.00) and Ashley Bryant (178-10) swept the men's and women's hammer throw competitions late Friday to open the UT-Arlington-hosted meet.

OU Results
Event	Athlete	Mark	Place
Long Jump (W)	Brianna Rodriguez	17-9.00	10th
	Hailey Patterson	FOUL	--
200m (W)	Alexis Barnes	24.87	12th
	Leya Buchanan	24.17	3rd
	Ama Pipi	23.71 (PR)	2nd
	Nay Strickland	25.97	33rd
Pole Vault (W)	Rachel Bolton	10-11.75	6th
	Meagan Gray	NH	--
Discus (M)	Steven Jazdyk	118-8.00	25th
	Chase Sammons	186-10.00 (PR)	1st
Shot Put (W)	Makayla Stephens	FOUL	--
	Chamaya Turner	44-4.00	8th
Triple Jump (W)	Nay Strickland	35-5.25	9th
4x100m (W)	Pipi, Demerson, Roberson, Buchanan	44.55	1st
	Stephens, Rodriguez, Patterson, Simms	46.14	4th
4x100m (M)	Jazdyk, Wesley, Armstrong, Vann	41.29	6th
1500m (W)	Lauren Gibbs	4:55.07	16th
	Abbey Mace	DNF	--
	Lane Maguire	4:46.13	10th
	Chloe Peek	5:04.03	26th
	Bryce Perry	4:50.79	15th
1500m (M)	Brendan Taylor	4:24.73	18th
100mH (W)	Olivia Haggerty	13.67 (PR)	4th
	CeCe Jackson	13.86	6th
	Makayla Stephens	14.60	15th
	Geo Tamez	14.26	11th
100m (W)	Alexis Barnes	12.14	22nd
	Bianca Brazil	11.92 (PR)	11th
	Leya Buchanan	11.78	6th
	Hailey Patterson	12.03	19th
	Baileh Simms	12.08	21st
100m (M)	Trae Armstrong	10.42	6th
	Tyrone Glenn	10.75	26th
	Greg Vann	10.66	20th
Discus (W)	Jenny Carmichael	FOUL	--
	Kate Foster	163-8.00	4th
High Jump (M)	Shonderius Howard	6-6.75	4th
	Garrison LeRock	NH	--
Triple Jump (M)	Josh Foster	45-7.00	20th
	Marcus Mitchell	48-0.50	10th
400m (W)	Payton Baker	54.91	2nd
	Daunicia Demerson	54.49 (PR)	1st
	Mia Mukes	56.30	6th
800m (W)	Jessica Martin	2:17.51	8th
	Jordan Norris	2:21.10	14th
200m (M)	Trae Armstrong	21.07	6th
	Tyrone Glenn	22.18	29th
5000m (M)	Eric Alldritt	14:50.60	4th
	Alonzo Chavez	15:27.18	11th
	Zach Gentry	15:21.04	10th

The Sooners also saw top-four finishes across multiple events. Eric Alldritt finished fourth in the 5,000-meter competition in 14:50.60 while Shonderius Howard and Kate Foster earned the same spot in the men's high jump and women's discus, respectively. Howard cleared a 6-6.75 and Foster earned a 163-8.00.

"It wasn't a team scored meet so we were hoping that some people took some sort of chance," the head coach said. "They tried to make a change in their race strategy or work on technical things the coaches showed them and those are things that are a little bit difficult to measure."

The Sooners return to action in a pair of meets next week. One group heads to the annual Texas Relays Wednesday through Saturday while a second group heads farther west to the Stanford Invitational for a Friday-Saturday meet.

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