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Smith Has Career Day at Home ::

Smith Has Career Day at Home :: Smith Has Career Day at Home




NORMAN, Okla. Oklahoma junior Toni Smith once again stole the show in front of her home crowd, winning the women’s triple jump at the Sooner Invitational with a personal best jump.

Smith, who has set a personal best indoors and outdoors with every home meet during her Sooner career, raised the bar once again with a wind-aided jump of 44 feet, 5.25 inches (13.54 meters) to take the event victory over teammate Portia Nash, who jumped 42-7.50 (12.99).

The result matches Miami’s Brenda Faluade for the second best triple jump in the NCAA.

Smith’s best jump does not count towards the school record book since it was wind-aided.  However, her next best jump of 43-7.50 (13.30) trounced the previous best set by Jackie Smiley of 41-10.75 (12.77) set in 1990, making Smith the OU record holder for both the indoor and outdoor seasons.

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Smith also took victory over Nash in the long jump as both set personal bests in that event as well.  Smith won at 20-10.25 (6.35) and Nash was second with a leap of 20-8.00 (6.30).

All-American pole vaulters Chip Heuser and Scott Martin finished 1-2, respectively, with both clearing 17-4.50 (5.30).

All-American Kevin Bookout easily won the men’s shot put with at 63-7.00 (19.38).  Bookout finished second in the discus by just one inch as Thomas Killeen threw 179-1 (54.58) to Bookout’s 170-0 (54.56).

Kevin Snyder won the men’s high jump with a best clearance of 6-10.75 (2.10).

Ronnie Pines won the men’s 100-meter dash at 10.67.

Cale Drumright took the men’s javelin throw title with a best of 185-5 (56.53).

OU alum Jerome Douglas won the men’s triple jump at 52-0.00 (15.85) over a trio of Sooners Shardae Boutte, Frankie Green and Tydree Lewis.

Dermillo Wise was the men’s long jump winner, leaping a best of 23-6.00 (7.16).

Chris Gilchrist was third in the 400-meter dash at 48.83.

Carolyn Winchester, making her transition over to track after the basketball season, was fourth overall in the women’s shot put, recording a personal best of 45-3.75 (13.81).

The Sooner Invitational concludes Sunday with the final events of the men’s decathlon and women’s heptathlon.  Those events will begin at 9 a.m. at the John Jacobs Track & Field Complex.

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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. The OU men and women testled their mettle at the 113th Penn Relays and proved they could be among the teams to watch come the NCAA National Championships with their results during Saturday’s final events.

The men’s 4x100-meter relay placed fifth among a strong field, clocking a season best and regional qualifying mark of 40.35.  LSU (39.72) won the event in a split-second finish to Florida State (39.78). 

The OU women’s 4x400-meter relay was eighth in their main event, but finished in a season best time of 3:39.01 as South Carolina earned the event victory (3:29.78).

The OU men’s 4x400 was seventh overall at 3:12.27.  LSU clocked a 3:07.34 to take the event win.

OU junior Sheldon Leith finished seventh in the men’s 110-meter hurdles, clocking 14.04.  Auburn’s Shamar Sands, the overall leader after the preliminary heats, took the overall title at 13.61.