Alabama track and field closes out the regular season at Mississippi State and LSU – The Crimson White

The Alabama Crimson Tide observe and area group completed its out of doors common season on the Maroon and White Invitational and the LSU Invitational Friday and Saturday. The Crimson Tide ended the weekend with 30 top-five finishes between the 2 meets.

The gap runners competed at Mississippi State Friday night, whereas the remainder of the group traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to compete within the LSU Invitational. 

Maroon and White Invitational

The Crimson Tide dominated the 800-meter race, because the freshman pair of Eliud Kipsang and Jacob Lamb completed with the top-two instances. Kipsang ran a 1:48.49, and Lamb adopted proper behind him with a 1:48.92. 

Victor Kiprop gave Alabama its different first-place end, operating a 3:40.79 within the 1,500-meter — the fourth quickest time at school historical past.

Within the girls’s 1,500-meter, junior Riley Schelp crossed third with a 4:43.43 time. 

LSU Invitational 

The Crimson Tide earned first-place finishes amongst collegians within the males’s discus, girls’s javelin and males’s hammer throw. Sophomore Alan de Falchi in discus (59.65 meters), senior Hailey Poole in girls’s javelin (50.49 meters) and junior Bobby Colantonio Jr. in discus (69.37 meters) all completed first of their respective occasions.

Poole’s 50.49-meter throw is a profession excessive and fifth greatest at school historical past. 

On the observe, the 4×400 group of Christal Mosley, Amari Brown, Na’Taja Ballard, and Amara Obi posted a time of three:34.28 for a third-place end.  

Freshman Corde Lengthy represented the Crimson Tide within the males’s 110-meter hurdles, ending second with a 13.90. 

The Crimson Tide look to hold this momentum into their subsequent meet as they open the postseason on the SEC Out of doors Championship in Oxford, Mississippi, Could 12-14.