Official Results

CLINTON - The Millsaps College women's track and field team traveled to the Mississippi College Twilight Invitational on Friday and had multiple event champions while finishing third out of four teams in the closest thing to a home meet this season.

With lots of family and friends in the stands, the Majors turned in several personal records and had an overall impressive showing at the meet.

\#Erica Cook\# got the running events going for the Majors by turning in the fastest time by a SCAC performer in the 100 meter dash, clocking-in at 12.48 seconds to place fourth.

Not far behind Cook were \#Deonna Walton\# and \#Catherine Patton\# who finished the race in times of 12.86 and 14.70, respectively with Walton's sixth place time ranking third amongst SCAC athletes.

Cook would later go on to win the 200 meter dash in a time of 25.96 seconds, which is the second fastest time in the SCAC while Walton placed third in the event with a time of 27.04.

Running in both the 400 and 800 meter runs, \#Krista Clark\# turned in personal records in each event with times of 1:06.64 and 2:43.59, respectively.

Competing for the first time in the 4x400 meter relay, the combination of Clark, \#Victoria Romano\#, Walton and Cook won the event in a time of 4:31.29.

The only Millsaps competitor in the jump events, Walton recorded the best performance in the long jump in the SCAC with a jump of 5.46m, which is only .09 meters off the NCAA provisional mark of 5.55m.

Turning to the field events, \#Kasey Laird\# won the discus with a toss of 32.70m and Romano finished third with a throw of 29.60m.

Laird also turned in a second place finish in the javelin (26.59m) and a third place finish in the shot put (10.16m) and competed in the hammer throw for the first time ever, placing second with a throw of 20.17m.

Romano continued her career best day for Millsaps with a personal best 25.05m in the javelin which placed her third.

The Majors finished the meet in third place with 60.5 team points behind Mississippi College (63) and champion Jackson State who claimed the title with 95 points.

“This team is really starting to come together and I expect great things from them the rest of the season” head coach Andy Till said. “We are excited to get back to work as we prepare for the conference meet in a couple weeks.”

Millsaps has several athletes in multiple events closing in on NCAA qualifying marks and will look to do so when they return to the track for the SCAC Championships in Conway, Ark., April 23-24.