Five qualify for track and field regionals

Monday, April 9, 2007

Kansas wrapped up the Texas Relays on Saturday, leaving Austin with four individual titles and five regional qualifying marks.

On Saturday, junior Crystal Manning fought off the competition as well as the rainy conditions and won the triple jump. Manning’s winning jump of 41 feet, 10.75 inches, qualifies her for the Midwest Regional Championships and sits as the fourth longest in the Big 12 Conference. Juniors Ashley Brown and Julius Jiles each qualified with their fourth-place finishes in the 100-meter and 110-meter hurdles, respectively. Brown finished in a career-best time of 13.55 seconds, while Jiles finished his preliminary race in 14.18 seconds.

Pole vaulters Jordan Scott, Kate Sultanova and Britany Parker were all scheduled to compete on Saturday but were unable to because of the rain.

During Friday’s competition, both senior Abby Emsick and junior Barrett Saunders captured victories. Esmick took the discus crown, while Saunders won the long jump.

Saunders’ winning jump of 25-10 was a 16-inch improvement on his previous personal best and was the best jump of anyone in the country so far this season. Esmick threw a season-best 175-05 and won the discus.

Egor Agafonov, the 2007 NCAA weight-throw champion, won the hammer throw on Thursday with his toss of 223-04, and sophomore Zlata Tarasova finished second in the hammer with a throw of 200-01.

Kansas next competes April 13 and 14 in Norman, Okla., at the Sooner Invitational.

Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.

— Edited by Carissa Pedigo

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