Track: Outdoor Continues with Victor Lopez Classic

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Teams Competing: Dallas Baptist, Grambling, Houston Baptist, Huston-Tillotson, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, Northeastern, Princeton, Rice, Sam Houston State, Southern, Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern, Texas Weslayan, Towson, Trinity, Tulane, ULM, UT Rio Grande Valley, Western Michigan, Xavier-(La.)

Action at the Victor Lopez Classic opens at 9 a.m., Friday, with the men’s and women’s hammer throw events. After an entire day of high school track & field action, the university level distance events will kick off at 7:10 p.m., with the men’s 1,500-meter run.

Field events resume at 10 a.m., Saturday, with the men’s shot put, women’s discus and the men’s and women’s long jump. Early sections of the collegiate track events begin at 11 a.m., with the ‘B’ section 110-meter hurdles, while the ‘A’ section running events start at 5:30 p.m., with the men’s 4x100-meter relay.

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Action began early Friday morning with the men’s and women’s hammer throw. On the men’s side, senior Damon Thompson threw 188-1 (57.33m) to finish fifth, while freshman Curtis Dalton’s 146-6 (44.66m) placed him 12th. The women followed, and sophomore Mikaila Martin threw 168-0 (51.21m) to place sixth.

The Cougars took to the track for the first time with the early sections of the 1,500-meter run. With one section remaining on Saturday, freshman Nicholas Hamilton paced the men in seventh with a time of 3:59.85, while Maddie Brown turned in the women’s fastest time in 10th at 4:52.12.

Houston picked up its top performance of the first day in the final event of the night, the women’s 5,000-meter run. Sophomore Jahnavi Schneider finished the 12.5 lap race in 17:12.94 to finish second overall and first among collegiate competitors.

Friday’s 10,000-meter race was cut short due to lightning in the area and will resume at 8 a.m., Saturday. The remainder of the final day of the Victor Lopez Classic begins at 10 a.m., with the men’s shot put, women’s discus and men’s and women’s long jumps, while running events will kick off at 11 a.m.

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Early results from Saturday’s field events:

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