Four Cardinals sprinted and one jumped onto the NCAA Division II national championships provisional lists last weekend at the Bobby Lane Invitational track and field meet in Arlington.
First to get on the list was the 4x100 relay team which put up a 40.90 to finish sixth in the meet dominated by Division I schools. That mark also lowered the Incarnate Word school record which had been 41.21 set two weeks earlier by the same quartet of Lamar Edwards-Johnson, Adan Narvaez, Christopher DeWitt and Tommy Brown.
Then, over in the jumping pits, Leon Knights tied for second in the high jump with a height of 2.05 meters. That put him on the Division II provisional list for the national meet set for the final week of May. Knights and the relay team join discus thrower Chance Dziuk as provisional entries at the D-II meet.
The NCAA sets automatic qualifying times, distances and heights for its national meet. If not enough athletes gain those marks to fill out the field then the provisional lists come into play.
Tobias Dreier finished seventh in the 5,000-meter run and his time of 15:05.20 lowered the previous UIW school mark. The old standard belonged to Dreier and came during the UIW Invitational earlier in March.
In Arlington the Cardinals got some other top 10 finishes. Corey McDonnough ran eight in the 400-meters (48.34), Howard Gill was fourth in the 1,500-meters (3:58.46) while Adrian Carrillo, running his first 3,000-meter steeplechase in two years, finished fourth in 9:39.70.
In addition to his provisional height in the high jump, Knights finished seventh in the long jump with a leap of 6.82 meters while Phillip Mayberry had a distance of 13.21 meters and that was ninth in the triple jump.
Back in San Antonio, Will Havins put his name in the Incarnate Word record book. At the Trinity decathlon meet Havins finished with 5,627 points, far surpassing one of the oldest marks at UIW. The previous best was 5,074 points by Tim Gonzales back in March of 2000. The event was won by Darius Walker, a decathlon All-American from Central Missouri.
BOBBY LANE INVITATIONAL RESULTS
