May 28, 2005

Final Stats

Norman, Okla. - The University of Houston men's track and field team scored all of its 34 points on Saturday, May 28, to finish in sixth place at the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships at the John Jacobs Track.

The Cougars began the day scoring eight points in the 4x100-meter relay race as the tandem of Vincent Marshall, Preston Perry, Tremaine Smith and Carey LaCour qualified for the NCAA Championships with a second place time of 39.30 seconds. Nebraska won the race with a time of 39.19 seconds.

Senior Andrew Carruthers scored 13 more points for the Cougars in the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdle races. Carruthers was the runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 50.54 seconds and finished in fifth place in the 110-meter hurdles race with a time of 13.91 seconds.

Houston also scored 13 points in the 200-meter dash as LaCour finished in third place with a time of 20.84 seconds, while Perry was fourth in 21.06 seconds, and Smith registered a seventh-place showing with a time 21.57 seconds.

The Lady Cougars scored 20.50 points to finish in 15th place as a team.

Krystal Ward scored the first four and one-half points for the Lady Cougars when she finished in a four-way tie for third place after clearing 1.76 meters (5' 9 ¼"). She finished sixth following the jump-off.

Houston scored another point with an eighth-place finish in the women's 4x100-meter race when Jasmine Jackson, Keisha Howard, Alicia Cave and Cheryl Garner combined for a time of 45.48 seconds.

Cave scored four points with seventh-place finishes in the 100 and 400-meter hurdle races. She had a time of 13.73 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles race and 59.21 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles.

Tiffany Abney added one point with an eighth-place time of 1:00.11 in the 400-meter hurdles as well.

Keisha Howard added another point with an eighth-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.75 seconds.

Then, Howard, Garner, Cave and Abney combined for a time of 3:34.82 seconds as Houston had a sixth-place finish in the women's 4x400-meter relay team.

Caresir Hamilton scored four points with a fourth-place finish in the women's triple jump after leaping 12.54 meters (41' 1 ¾") on her first of six jumps. Senior Tinisha Wesley had a seventh-place finish in the women's shot put with a throw of 14.73 meters (48' 4") on her final attempt to score Houston's other two points.

The top five individual finishers along with the Houston men's 4x100-meter relay team have qualified to compete in the NCAA Championships on June 5-8. The individual qualifiers are: Andrew Carruthers, who qualified in both the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles, Carey LaCour and Preston Perry in the 200-meter dash, Caresir Hamilton in the women's triple jump and Krystal Ward, who has automatically qualified to compete in the heptathlon after her record-setting performance at the Conference USA Championships on May 12-14. Ward also could qualify with an at-large berth in the women's high jump after her third place tie.