Jayhawk track and field season comes to a close on Saturday

LocalSportsJournal.com

BEREA, OHIO—The Muskegon Community College JayHawks traveled to Ohio this past weekend to compete in the Baldwin Wallace Twilight Classic.

A school record fell on the track with Zac Pray in a come from behind finish in the 200m dash to win his heat, finish 11^th from heat 4 with a 22.29 which breaks the previous school record of 22.45. Pray also had a season best performance in the 400m dash finishing 2^nd overall in 50.07. Running the 200m dash as well was Tyler Walker (22^nd in 23.37 Season Best) and Tremain Willis (24^th in 23.67 Season Best).

The Jayhawks also put together a 4×100 to finish 7^th overall in 44.30. (team of Dobben, Walker, Willis and Pray).

Late in the evening under the lights Adam Wolffis and Kaden Hainer ran the 10k and finished 3^rd and 4^th respectively.

Payton Dobben was the lone field events competitor finishing 7^th with a season best throw of 37.12m in the Javelin.

On the ladies’ side MCC saw a battle between Faith Clark (1:04.2) and Katie Ferris (1:05.23) in the 400m dash with Faith Clark taking control in the final 100 meters.

In the field events the ladies competed well with Katie Ferris finishing 12^th in the high jump, Kaylin Meyers taking 11^th and 12^th in the long jump and triple jump. Karleigh Jeffries competed in the hammer throw finishing 22^nd in a season best 32.37m and 17^th in the discus.

The JayHawks rounded out their outdoor track season and will be preparing for the 2022 Cross Country Season starting in July.