TEXAS RELAYS: Thursday Results; Friday Results | BOBCAT INVITATIONAL: Final Results

AUSTIN, Texas – As Texas State continued to balance the Texas Relays in Austin and the Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos, the Bobcats managed a record setting day with some highlighted athletes competing on the final day of the Texas Relays.
 
The men's 4x400-meter relay team, made up of William Murray, James Hillard, Tyrone Jackson and Anthony Johnson, will compete in the finals at the end of the day Saturday, shortly after 4:05 p.m. The foursome ran for a sixth-place qualifying time of 3:11.36, a time that would currently lead the Western Athletic Conference. The team beat their previous best of 3:13.23.
 
Back in San Marcos, at the Bobcat Invitational, Danessa Lyssy set a new school record in the heptathlon with 5,206 points to finish first. Filling out two of the next three spots were Bobcats Pilar Hastings-Smith (Third, 4,900) and Tina Valenzuela (Fourth, 4,865). All three points totals would be top the WAC's best mark. Lyssy's point total currently places her third nationally while Hastings-Smith and Valenzuela sit with the sixth and seventh best point totals in the nation.
 
In the field, Kelsey Titzman threw at both meets. She finished eighth at the Texas Relays with a toss of 15.38 meters, but set a new WAC-leading mark and personal record at the Bobcat Invitational with a first place toss of 16.03 meters, besting second place by more than a meter. If she had hit the mark at the Texas Relays, she would have finished fifth. Titzman also took third in the hammer throw (47.95 meters) at the Bobcat Invitational.
 
Raymond Hatton also set a new WAC-leading mark, running for a second place time of 21.02 in the 200-meter dash. That time places him currently fourth in the nation. He kept up his good day with a time of 10.50 to finish second in the 100-meter dash.
 
Chante'sean White impressed with a qualifying time in the 400-meter hurdles of 59.18. She improved it to 58.80 in the finals Friday to finish sixth place at the Texas Relays. In addition to Texas State's 4x400-meter relay team, Dasha Tsema and Darian Brown will be competing in Saturday's finals. Both throwers will compete in the discus at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. respectively.

As for tomorrow's events and where the team is as a whole, Head Coach Dana Boone is pleased.

“We are in a good place as a team, and we are competing better each week,” Boone said.
 
Also placing at the Texas Relays Friday was Derrick Randle with an eighth place triple jump of 14.62 meters, Darian Brown with a ninth place shot put of 16.29 meters, and Murray with a 10^th place long jump of 7.04 meters. Brown's shot put and Randle's triple jump are both the second best marks in the WAC for their respective events as both athletes set the top marks last weekend (14.65 meters for Randle in the triple jump and 16.53 meters in the shot put for Brown).
 
At the Bobcat Invitational, Texas State continued to set WAC-leading marks. Carter Nell set the high point total with 6,715 points in the decathlon, finishing third, while the women's 4x400-meter relay team of Kimberly Krtinich, Amber Gilmore, Briana Sharp and Kellie Trinkaus finished first with a time of 3:49.69.
 
Carly Szabo set a season best and tied for third in the WAC with a high jump height of 1.65 meters, just 0.01 meters less than first place, to finish second in the high jump. In the men's high jump, Garrett Robinson took first with a 2.00-meter jump while Alex Tripplett finished second with the same height.
 
Texas State had nine other top three finishes at the Bobcat Invitational. For final results on the Bobcat Invitational, click here. To follow the Texas Relays via live results, click here and find a schedule here. Thursday's results from the Texas Relays can be found here, while Friday's are here.