Gardner-Webb Posts Four Top-10 Finishes On Final Day of Hilton Garden Innvitational
January 31, 2015 | Track & Field
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Gardner-Webb posted four top-10 finishes in field events Saturday at the 2015 Hilton Garden Innvitational at JDL Fast Track.
JDL Fast Track will be the host site for the 2015 Big South Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships on February 26-27.
Sarah Mitchell (Roswell, Ga. / Centennial HS) finished eighth in the women's shot put, her second solid effort of the weekend. Mitchell took 11th in the weight throw Friday night and has emerged as the top all-around thrower on the women's roster heading into the second full month of the indoor season.
Megan Melton (Riverside, Calif. / M.L. King HS) also posted a top-10 mark, finishing ninth in the women's pole vault with a height of 3.50m (11'05.75"). Melton was fifth among college competitors.
A.J. White (Hurricane, WVa. / Hurricane HS) took eighth in the men's shot put with a distance of 15.04m (49'04.25"). White also posted a top-20 finish in the men's weight throw Friday evening.
Jordan Smith (Chesterfield, Va. / Clover Hill HS) finished ninth in the men's shot put, recording a 14.83m measurement (48'08.0") to place just above ETSU's Spencer Keck. Smith finished 14th in the men's weight throw on Friday night.
Both Gardner-Webb squads will be back in action next weekend, traveling to the East Tennessee State Invitational in Johnson City, Tenn.
2015 Hilton Garden Innvitational Overall Person Records Set
Women's Personal Records
Merideth Byl (60m H) – 10.77
Claire Cates (3,000m Run) – 10:49.11
Ashleigh Cleveland (60m H) – 10.23
Gabby Cortese (1 mile) – 5:21.62
Jordan Davis (400m) – 1:00.74
Jenna Ford (3,000m Run) – 10:53.93
Ivy Harris (60m Dash) – 8.42
Kristen Hurley (60m H) – 9.02
Sarah Perkins (400m Dash) – 1:02.50
Men's Personal Records
Ben Bell (Long Jump) – 6.11m
Ben Bell (60m H) – 9.01
Marquise Evans-Whitehart (60m Dash) – 7.51
Nathan Padfield (Weight Throw) – 16.65m
Josh Wembolua (60m H) – 8.52
Marquel Woodard (800m Run) – 1:58.25
