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Houston Alumni Invitational
Scaife Crushes Hammer Throw Record
4/6/2018 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
HOUSTON â€" The Houston Cougar Men's and Women's Track & Field teams opened the first day of competition in the Houston Alumni Invitational with a record-setting performance and five top-5 finishes on Friday at Carl Lewis Complex.
The Houston Alumni Invitational will kick off a day full of Houston Athletics events on campus on Saturday. Following the meet, fans are encouraged to attend the Houston Football Spring Game at 3:30 p.m., and then head over to Cougar Field to catch the Houston Baseball team take on USF at 6:30 p.m.
For more information on the weekend full of sports, fans can click HERE.
ABOUT THE HOUSTON ALUMNI INVITATIONAL
The conclusion of the meet opens at 11 a.m., Saturday with the women's long jump and shot put and the men's discus. Running events are set to open at 11:30 a.m., with the women's 4x100-meter relay, and the meet is scheduled to wrap up at around 2:45 p.m., for fans to make the short trek to TDECU Stadium.
A full schedule of events can be found by clicking HERE.
Houston will welcome Texas A&M. Lamar, Rice, Tulane and Houston Baptist to campus for what should be an exciting meet. Adding to the excitement is the top-5 matchup between the Cougar men who enter No. 3 in the USTFCCCA Rankings and Texas A&M, who enters as the No. 2 team.
Live results for the Houston Alumni Invitational will be available courtesy of Flash Results Texas and can be found by clicking HERE.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Junior thrower Taylor Scaife stole the show for the Cougars after demolishing her own school record in the hammer throw. Scaife became the first woman in Houston history to throw the hammer more than 200 feet, posting a top throw of 203-9 (62.10m). The mark tops Scaife's previous school record of 195-6 (59.60m) set a week ago at the Texas Relays and moves her to No. 16 in the nation.
Freshman Jennifer Ramirez also set a personal best in the event after her top throw of 154-7 (47.11m) placed her sixth.
In a first day that was full of field action, the Cougars picked up a pair of top-5 finishes in each of the first two events. For the men, senior Jose Herrera tallied a fifth-place finish in the hammer throw with a top-mark of 175-10 (53.60m). Multi-athlete Cassie Leal followed with a fourth-place finish in the javelin with a personal-best toss of 122-2 (37.24m).
Multi-athlete Luke Barksdale closed the day of field action for the men with a third-place finish in the javelin. Barksdale's second attempt traveled 150-0 (45.72m) to set a new personal best.
A pair of women finished the afternoon for the Cougars in the pole vault. Sarah Howe and Olivia Winterkamp each went up-and-over the bar at 11-1.75 (3.40m), however Howe cleared on her second attempt to finish third, while Winterkamp went over on her third attempt to take fourth.
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