Landon Wins the Meet at OU

Wildcats add 2 more qualifiers

NORMAN, Okla. -- The ACU men's track and field team added two new provisional qualifiers for next month's NCAA Division II indoor championship meet on Saturday at the Sooner Indoor Open.

Pole vaulters Aaron Cantrell and Bradley Tatum each posted provisional qualifying marks as both cleared 15-7.75 with Cantrell finishing second and Tatum third. ACU's Landon Ehlers won the pole vault with a mark of 16-1.75, which is a better provisional qualifying mark for him.
Aside from the Ehlers win in the pole vault, Wildcat athletes won two other events Saturday with Harold Jackson winning the 400 meters in 49.68 and Julius Nyango winning the 800 meters in 1:54.40. No other Wildcat, however, posted a qualifying mark at the meet.

The same held true for the women, although ACU did have an event winner in Keva Wilkins in the 600-yard race (1:23.74), an event that is not part of the indoor championship meet. Two Wildcats did better previous provisional marks as Elizabeth Buyse finished second in the pole vault (11-10.00) and Jessica Sloss finished second in the weight throw (54-6.00).

A few ACU athletes were in action Friday at the Prairie Wolf Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., but the only noteworthy performance was by the women's distance medley relay team, which bettered its previous provisional qualifying time by 10 seconds as it won the race in 11:58.12.