Raleigh, N.C.. – Samford University's track and field team competed in their second outdoor meet of the season in Raleigh, North Carolina at the Raleigh Relays this past weekend. The meet took place over two days on Friday and Saturday.
 
In the women's 100 meter dash, sophomore Hannah Lueders and freshman Vada Samuels each finished in the top 50. Lueders finished 19^th overall with a 12.28 second time and Samuels finished 44^th with a 12.58 second time. Lueders and Samuels also competed in the women's 200 meter dash where Lueders finished in the top eight at seventh. She had a 24.54 second time and Samuels finished 15^th with a 25.67 time.
 
Samuels again competed in the 400 meter where she placed 28^th after posting a 57.46 second time.
 
On the men's side of the sprints, Emmanuel Tait, Titus Moore, and Jack McHugh each competed in the men's 100 meter dash. Tait finished 14^th with a 10.76 second time. Moore and McHugh finished 31^st and 39^th overall with times of 11.07 and 11.21 seconds.
 
Tait placed in the top ten of the 200 meter dash after a 21.56 second time giving him 9^th overall in the event.
 
Jordan Woodbine competed for Samford in the 400 meter run. The freshman finished 24^th with a 49.43 second time.
 
In the 1500 meter run on the women's side, Mary Grace Strozier and Shian Mallory both competed for the Bulldogs. Strozier finished with a time of 4:33.78 good enough to be in the top 50 at 49^th. Mallory finished at 59^th after posting a 4:35.01 time in the event, which included over 150 participants.
 
Owen Bailey competed in the men's division of the 1500 meter. Bailey finished 48^th overall with a 3:54.07 time.
 
Both Dillon Dean and Brad Cheek ran the 10,000 meter for Samford. The juniors each finished in the top 50. Dean finished 32^nd with a 30:37.76 time while Cheek finished 42^nd with a 31:13.20 time.
 
In the women's 100 meter hurdles, Sarah Sanford placed 18^th with a time of 14.78. Amanda Dumar and Lauren Beard also competed for Samford and placed 42^nd and 44^th with times of 15.81 and 15.97 respectively. Each competed in the 400 meter hurdles event as well and placed in the top 25 of it. Sanford finished 11^th with a time of 1:02.23, Dumar finished 17^th with a time of 1:03.22, and Beard finished 23^rd with a time of 1:04.00.
 
The men's 110 meter hurdles event saw two Bulldogs in the top three and four Bulldogs in the top 15. Tait and Moore finished first and third overall with times of 14.34 and 14.44 seconds respectively. Michael McMahan and McHugh placed 11^th and 14^th overall with times of 14.94 and 15.01.
 
Two more Bulldogs finished in the top six of the 400 meter hurdles. Jordan Oballe and McMahan finished fifth and sixth overall with times of 53.81 and 53.99 in the event. Sophomore Warren Fitzpatrick also competed and finished 24^th with a time of 56.68.
 
The men's 3000 meter steeplechase only had one Bulldog compete. Ben Garner finished 42^nd overall with a 9:23.40 time.
 
Samford's women's team excelled in the women's 1600 sprint medley relay. The team, made up of Hannah Lueders, Vada Samuels, Selena Popp and Veronica Lyle, finished second among all teams after posting a time of 4:01.69. On the men's side, Samford finished seventh overall. The race was run by freshman Jake Diggs, Oballe, Fitzpatrick and freshman Seth Corey. The four together put a time of 3:30.66 on the board.
 
In the men's 4x400 meter relay, Samford's team was Woodbine, Diggs, Oballe and Fitzpatrick. The team finished sixth overall with a 3:17.42 time. In the 4x1500 meter relay, Samford's team was Bailey, Jake Maddox, Hunter Poole, and Garner. The group posted a 16:26.44 time and finished 14^th overall in the event.
 
In field events, Charlotte Krause finished sixth overall in the women's high jump. The junior from Samford posted a jump of 1.60 meters. On the men's side, senior Keyth Fightmaster finished second overall with a 2.00 meter jump.
 
Krause also competed in the women's triple jump and went for 11.14 meters, landing her a 29^th place finish in the event. Noash Osburne finished 13^th with a 12.67 meter distance.
 
The men's high jump invite featured freshman Justin Stuckey. He placed second with an official jump of 2.10 meters.
 
Two Bulldogs finished in the top ten in the women's pole vault event. Sophomores Tally Wilson and Jackie Barnes finished fifth and tenth with high vaults of 3.80 meters and 3.65 meters. The men's pole vault featured Hunter Schlatter from Samford, who had a 4.42 meter high vault. HE finished 11^th overall.
 
The men's pole vault invite saw junior Hugh Duggan take second overall. His 5.11 meters was a .20 meters above the next closest participant.
 
Erin Hines and Madeline Ballard competed in the women's long jump for Samford. Hines finished with a distance of 5.53 meters, good enough for 13^th overall. Ballard finished 26^th after a 5.42 distance in the event. Thomas Ozburn competed for Samford in the men's divison. Ozburn posted a distance of 6.47 meters and finished 20^th.
 
In the women's shot put, Maggie Johnston and Tatiana Taylor of Samford finished 24^th and 26^th. Johnston finished with a long distance of 12.83 meters while Taylor finished with 12.60 meters.
 
Johnston also competed in the discus event where she threw 47.84 meters, landing her fourth overall in the event.
 
Both Taylor and Johnston competed in the women's hammer where they finished 22^nd and 24^th after throws of 46.25 meters and 45.97 meters.
 
Matt Cahoon threw in the discus event for the Bulldogs and finished 15^th overall. The sophomore had a distance thrown of 46.98 meters.
 
In the javelin throw, freshman Emorie Long threw for 33.54 meters and finished 28^th among those in the event.
 
Both the men's and women's track and field teams will be back in action this weekend at the Tiger Classic on the campus of Auburn University April 5-6.
 
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