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Chris Pearson, Tracey Rew provide highlights for NSU at Arkansas meet
1/26/2008 TRACK AND FIELD: Pearson's third-place showing in the 800 was top mark Saturday for NSU; Rew was top female collegian, second overall, in women's shot late Friday night |
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Chris Pearson ran a personal best 1:55.44 for third in the men’s 800 meters Saturday to provide a highlight for Northwestern State on the final day of the Razorback Invitational indoor track and field meet featuring seven Top 25-ranked teams. Courtney Irby of Jackson State (1:54.13) and Logan Gonzales from Texas (1:54.15) were the only runners topping NSU’s Pearson. Lady Demon thrower Trecey Rew had the top finish for the NSU women with her second-place 48-8 shot put mark late Friday night. She was the top collegiate finisher as an unattached athlete won the competition. Pearson’s best time came in a race where another Demon 800 meter runner, Galen Mudd, also had his best mark in that event with an 11th-place 1:58.40. The Demons’ 4x400 meter relay team didn’t place impressively with an 11th place ranking, but its 3:15.14 time was just ahead of Houston, Tulsa and Stephen F. Austin and trailed only national powers Baylor, LSU, Oral Roberts, Texas A&M, Texas and Alabama, among others. The NSU men got a couple of potential Southland Conference Indoor Championship-scoring marks in the men’s triple jump by Jamie Emery (47-5 3/4, 13th) and Charles Green (46-10 3/4, 14th). Friday, Northwestern swept the men’s throwing events, with Daniel Yarbrough taking the weight throw and Corey Jones winning the shot put. Yarbrough, a junior from North Caddo High School, threw a personal best 61-0 to post a convincing win over runner-up Rabun Fox of LSU (59-6 3/4). For Yarbrough, the mark was more than two feet better than his second-place 58-6 3/4 performance last week at LSU. Jones recorded a winning 53-0 3/4 in the shot put, topping LSU’s Adam Wilcox (51-5) and Nick Baucom of Texas (51-1 1/2). Jones, a senior from Diboll, Texas, was also second at LSU last week with a 54-2 mark. The Lady Demons got a pair of top 10 finishes Friday in the weight throw. Rew was seventh (51-3) and Alison Holmes eighth (50-2) in a competition won by Frednisha Marshall of Stephen F. Austin (60-1), ahead of Brittany Devereaux of Baylor (56-3) and Kimberly Williams (55-4) from LSU. Northwestern will be heading back to Baton Rouge for its next competition, the Bayou Bengal Invitational next Thursday and Friday. |
