WILLIAMSBURG, KY. – It was a good day to be a field event athlete as three different conference champions were crowned to lead the Tigers to a third place finish at the Mid South Conference Championships.
Brayden Russell got the day started off for the Tigers with his winning jump coming in the high jump. His mark of 2.02m hits the NAIA B standard and was .09m over the next competitor. Russell has now won the high jump in his last three seasons for Campbellsville.
Garland Webb joined Russell with another title in the jump. Webb broke an 11 year old record in the triple jump held by Detrick Briggs back in 2008 of 14.94m. Webb was able to best that mark this afternoon with an NAIA A standard mark of 14.95m. Webb was sitting in second place heading into his final jump before hitting the winning jump. Russell was able to join Webb in the triple jump scoring coming in at sixth place with a mark of 12.64m, and
Brevon Whitney placed fifth overall with his mark of 12.71m.
In the men's discus throw,
Jeremiah Parker and
Caleb Costin won the gold and bronze medal in the event. Parker won the event on his first throw in finals, while Costin was able to earn the bronze medal with his throw of 42.30m. Costin was able to pick up one final point for the field events with his eighth place finish in the shot put. Costin was able to throw for a distance of 13.43m.
Michael Quigley made his debut in a big way in the 5,000m racewalk. He was able to place seventh in the event and earn two points with a time of 55:01.21 Following Quigley's early points in the distance events,
Bret Crawford and
Camryn Snapp placed fifth and sixth in the 1500m run. Crawford came in at fifth with a time of 4:01.08, while Snapp was close behind at 4:04.40.
Sam Kiser finished runner up in the men's 800m run later on in the day. He was on the heels of Cumberland Universities Charles Shimukowa as he was one second behind him. Shimukowa came in at 1:55.38, while Kiser was at 1:56.13.
Corbin Harris rounded out the scoring for the distance squad on the day in the 5,000m run. Harris finished the tightly contested race with a time of 15:48.48.
Leading off the day in the spints was the men's 4x100m relay.
Garland Webb,
Jaron Jackson,
Jordan Thomas, and
Edwin Ford were able to finish in the bronze medal position at a time of 42.22. Webb finished out his record meet with a seventh place finish in the 100m dash. He came in at 11.10 in seventh position. Thomas would add onto his point total individually in the 400m finals. He placed fifth with a time of 49.71 beating his prelim time of 49.90 yesterday.
Isaiah Harris was able to pick up points in both hurdle events today. He placed sixth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 17.03. Later on in the day he came in at seventh place in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:01.03.
Brayden Russell was able to help Harris out in scoring in the 400m hurdles as he missed the bronze medal and finished in fourth position with a season best time of 57.93.
The final event of the day came down to the home stretch in the 4x400m relay. The Tigers placed second behind Lindsey Wilson with a new school record time of 3:20.25. The relay made of
Jordan Thomas,
Edwin Ford,
Jaron Jackson, and
Sam Kiser were able to bring home the final eight points for the team. The previous record was set back in 2017 where Thomas and Jackson were apart of that team.
Campbellsville finished the meet overall with 139 points in third place. University of the Cumberlands dethroned Lindsey Wilson College after their four year reign atop of the conference with a team point total of 220 points to Lindsey Wilson's 215.5.
The Tigers will now have two weeks off before traveling to the NCCAA Outdoor Championships in Indiana May 8-10.
