Alabama Men Take Second, Women Eighth at the 2022 SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championship – University of Alabama Athletics

OXFORD, Miss. – In a meet that got here all the way down to the wire, the Alabama males battled during the ultimate relay however got here up simply wanting the 2022 Southeastern Convention Out of doors Championship, taking second place Saturday on the Ole Miss Observe & Area Advanced in Oxford, Miss.

The Crimson Tide males tallied 116 factors over the three-day occasion to complete simply behind Arkansas (121 factors). With its runner-up end, the Alabama males have now completed second on the SEC out of doors championships in back-to-back years for the primary time since 1982 and 1983.

The Crimson Tide males earned 5 medals on Saturday to shut out the meet. Eliud Kipsang took silver within the males’s 1,500 meters with a time of three:39.09. Alan de Falchi (58.49 meters) and Jerimiah Evans (57.68 meters) took silver and bronze within the discus. Corde Lengthy took the bronze within the males’s 400-meter hurdles with a career-best time of 49.59, which set a brand new UA file alongside the best way.

The 4×400-meter relay of Leander Forbes, Lengthy, Demetrius Jackson and Khaleb McRae posted the second-fastest time in class historical past, going 3:02.31 to shut out the meet with a silver-medal end.

The Crimson Tide ladies completed in eighth place with 48 factors paced by a pair of particular person titles from Mercy Chelangat, who received the 5,000 meters (15:22.99) Saturday night time after taking prime honors within the 10,000 on Thursday, giving her a sweep of the SEC distance occasions for the second 12 months in a row.

“Whereas this wasn’t the result we needed, I could not be prouder of the best way our males fought from the primary occasion to the final this weekend. We had just a few issues that did not go our means, which is de facto powerful to beat in a meet like this with this stage of competitors, however our guys by no means stopped battling. We had quite a few superb performances in each the boys’s and girls’s meet and we’re trying to carry these over into the NCAA Championships.”

Crimson Tide Scorers on Day Three

• The Crimson Tide scored particular person or relay factors in quite a few occasions on the meet’s closing day
• Along with medaling within the males’s 400-meter hurdles and 4×400-meter relay, Corde Lengthy went a career-best 13.76 to take fourth within the finals of the 110-meter hurdles
• Victor Kiprop (13:45.95), Eliud Kipsang (13:54.12) and Hillary Cheruiyot (14:01.14) completed fourth, fifth and eighth within the males’s 5,000 meters
• Na’Taja Ballard, Amari Brown, Ayla Stanisclaus and Amara Obi ran a 44.22 to take fifth within the ladies’s 4×100-meter relay
• Demetrius Jackson (20.48) and Tarsis Orogot (20.54) took fifth and sixth within the males’s 200 meters
• Emmanuel Ineh was sixth within the males’s triple leap with a leap of 15.47 meters
• Christal Mosley, Amara Obi, Amari Brown and Na’Taja Ballard closed the ladies’s meet with a time of three:28.85 to take sixth within the 4×400-meter relay
• Flomena Asekol completed sixth within the ladies’s 1,500 meters with a time of 4:15.38
• Amari Brown took eighth within the ladies’s 200 meters with a time of 23.22
• Amaris Tyynismaa was eighth within the ladies’s 5,000 meters with a time of 16:07.12
• Leander Forbes completed eighth within the 400 meters with a time 46.41

Up Subsequent

• Alabama returns to motion with the primary spherical of the NCAA Championships, the NCAA East Preliminary, Could 25-28 in Bloomington, Ind.
• The NCAA East Preliminary serves as certainly one of two conduits to the NCAA Championships, which can be held June 8-11 in Eugene Ore.

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