Arkansas
Razorbacks answer challenge once again, complete SEC Triple Crown
Oxford, Miss. – Arkansas answered the problem offered by Alabama to safe the crew title on the SEC Out of doors Championships by six factors, 120-114, on Saturday on the Ole Miss Monitor & Subject Complicated.
The Razorback victory earned the crew a second consecutive SEC Triple Crown after claiming league titles in cross nation and indoor monitor and subject this season. It’s the 17th time in program historical past to realize the convention Triple Crown.
In successful the SEC Out of doors title for the 21st time, Arkansas utilized factors from numerous areas on the ultimate day of its three-day journey.
Opening the day with a 39.24 silver medal end within the 4 x 100 relay, the Razorbacks added 21 factors within the 110m hurdles with 4 Arkansas hurdlers within the ultimate.
One other bulk of factors occurred within the 5,000m, the second to final occasion within the meet, as a Razorback 1-2-3 sweep totaled 24 factors to counter the ten scored by Alabama with a 4-5-8 end.
Patrick Kiprop, who claimed the Commissioner’s Trophy as the boys’s excessive level scorer with 18 factors, gained the 5,000m in 13:41.05 with Amon Kemboi runner-up in 13:43.02 and Emmanuel Cheboson third at 13:43.66.
Within the 1,500m, Kemboi positioned third in 3:39.93 whereas Elias Schreml picked up a pair of factors in seventh with a 3:43.94.
Working on the 4 x 100 relay for Arkansas had been Roman Turner, Connor Washington, Ayden Owens-Delerme, and Phillip Lemonious.
Lemonious led the Razorback cost within the 110m hurdles, putting second in 13.56 behind a 13.28 for LSU’s Eric Edwards. Tre’Bien Gilbert positioned third in 13.60 whereas Owens-Delerme completed fifth in 13.84 and Matthew Lewis-Banks positioned sixth in 14.01.
Washington additionally added a degree within the 200m ultimate as he completed eighth in 20.60.
Going into the 4 x 400 relay, the Razorbacks held a 10-point benefit 118-108.
Racing within the first of two sections in opposition to Missouri, Arkansas posted a time of three:06.83 with a crew of Owen-Delerme (47.4), Brandon Battle (45.9), Leroy Russell III (47.8), and James Milholen (45.7). They positioned seventh total whereas Alabama completed third in 3:02.31.
Russell additionally provided 5 factors from the 800m the place he completed fourth in 1:47.39 to raised his earlier better of 1:47.89.
SEC Out of doors ultimate crew scores: 1. Arkansas 120, 2. Alabama 114, 3. Tennessee 84, 4. Florida 78, 5. Georgia 75, 6. Texas A&M 71, 7. LSU 70.