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LED by top Zimbabwean female sprinter Vimbayi Maisvorewa, the Auburn track and field team continued their impressive indoor campaign competing at the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina, on Friday and Saturday.
Maisvorewa, who is on an athletics scholarship at Auburn University, ran in her favourite 400m event and came second in 52.21 seconds.
Maisvorewa and sophomore Deborah Oke finished second and fourth in the event.
Maisvorewa’s time of 52.21s placed her at No. 5 in the conference.
The duo also raced in the 200m, where Maisvorewa ran an indoor collegiate best time of 23.97s and OKe crossed not far behind in 24.00s.
This helped The Tigers to take home gold in four different events and had 12 collegiate personal best performances over the weekend.
Junior Alyssa Quinones-Mixon highlighted the showing of the pole vaulters for the women. Quinones-Mixon finished the event first overall with a collegiate best mark of 4.38m.
Her new mark placed her second in the SEC. Senior Maura Huwalt continued to show her dominance in the throwing events for the women.
For the third time in three weeks, she finished weight throw first overall with a new PR of 22.27m.
Also competing in weight throw, senior Adrienne Adams had a stellar performance.
She placed second overall (20.00m) and moved up to fifth on Auburn’s top 10 in history.
Auburn swept the men’s and women’s shot putt titles with the help of juniors Matthew Rueff and Megan Hague.
Rueff claimed his best mark on the fourth throw of the event (18.18m).
On the women’s side, the Tigers took the top three sports in the event.
Hague claimed gold (16.41m), Huwalt took silver with a season’s best toss (16.31m) and sophomore Marley Raikiwasa placed third (15.78,).
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter