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Taylor Scaife Shatters Weight Throw Record
1/25/2019 6:58:00 PM | Track and Field
Cougars wrap first day of two-day home meet
HOUSTON – Senior thrower Taylor Scaife continued an impressive final indoor season on campus, breaking her own school record in the weight throw for the third consecutive week, as the Houston Cougar Men's and Women's Track & Field teams wrapped the opening day of the Houston Invitational on Friday.
HOW IT HAPPENED
It's beginning to sound like a broken record, but Scaife continued to rewrite the history books in the women's weight throw. Scaife left no doubt, obliterating her old record of 68-8.0 (20.93m), when she marked 74-3.75 (22.65m) on her final attempt of the competition.
Scaife, the reining American Athletic Conference Female Field Athlete of the Week, also broke the Houston Invitational meet record and the Yeoman Fieldhouse facility record with the effort. The mark moves her to No. 1 in the NCAA this season.
Scaife's fourth attempt also broke her school record, when she threw 70-6.0 (21.49m).
Mikaila Martin grabbed third in the weight throw with a mark of 56-4.75 (17.19m) to set a personal record and improve on her fifth-best mark in program history.
Hawa Wague opened the first day of the Houston Invitational with her first collegiate pentathlon. A high-jumper by trade, Wague scored 3,640 points to place fifth overall in the five-event competition. Wague opened with 746 points in the 60-meter hurdles after a time of 9.82 before high jumping 5-7.0 (1.70m) to tally 855 points.
From there, Wague would throw the shot put 40-10.25 (12.45m) for 691 more points, before long jumping 17-6.75 (5.35m) for 657 points and running 2:30.12 in the 800-meter run for a final 691 points.
Jazmyn Tilford-Rutherford picked up Houston's first victory on the track on Friday, winning the early section of the 400-meter dash. Tilford-Rutherford raced two laps around the track in 57.90 to take the victory.
In the qualifiers, a pair of Houston sprinters punched their tickets to Saturday's final. Competing in the 60-meter dash, John Lewis III posted the fastest overall qualifying time at 6.81, while Terence Ware made his debut with the Cougars by qualifying fourth overall at 6.88.
ABOUT THE HOUSTON INVITATIONAL
The action resumes Saturday at 11 a.m., with the conclusion of the men's heptathlon. Individual events will open with the women's shot put at noon, while the semifinals of the women's 60-meter dash kick off the running events at 12:50 p.m.
The weekend meet will feature women's teams from SMU and USF as well as both men's and women's teams from Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, Lamar, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin, Texas, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern, Texas Wesleyan, UT Rio Grande Valley and UTSA.
Live results for the Houston Invitational will be made available courtesy of Flash Results Texas and can be found by clicking HERE.
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