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Dalon Harris (middle) and Weston Geiger (right) on the podium on Sunday (photo by Bryce Hayes)
Dalon Harris (middle) and Weston Geiger (right) on the podium on Sunday (photo by Bryce Hayes)

Texas Lutheran Wins Discus; Takes Second at SCAC Championships

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The Texas Lutheran men's track and field team closed out the 2024 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Track and Field Championships with a second place finish at Trinity Stadium on the campus of Trinity University on Sunday.

The Bulldogs tallied 187 points over the course of the two-day meet to claim their third consecutive second place finish.

Texas Lutheran concluded their time at the conference championship with five SCAC Champions and 15 podium finishes.

Dalon Harris (Garland/Lakeview Centennial) won the discus throw on Sunday for the Bulldogs final event win of the meet, winning the event with a mark of 45.05m (147' 10"). Weston Geiger (Shiner/St. Paul) would join Harris on the podium with a 39.15m (128' 5") mark. Geiger, who tallied a bevy of points for Texas Lutheran this weekend, also added a runner-up finish in the javelin throw (52.80m, 173' 3") on Sunday.

Freshman Parker Cabra (Schertz/Randolph) would earn silver medals in the high jump (1.97m, 6' 5.5") and the 110m hurdles (15.11 seconds).

Bryce Powell-Chimene (Dayton/Dayton) finished second in the 400m dash with a time of 48.41 seconds. Weston Guzman (McAllen/McAllen) would earn a runner-up finish in the 100m dash with a time of 10.86 seconds. The 4x400m relay team comprised of Powell-Chimene, Guzman, Justin Freeney (Montgomery/Lake Creek), and Rickey Franks (Rockport/Rockport-Fulton) finished third with a time of 3:22.90.

Full Results: https://www.tfrrs.org/results/86102/SCAC_Outdoor_Track__Field_Championships

The Bulldogs will compete intermittently over the course of the next month as they prepare for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, May 23-25, starting with the Tom Tellez Invitational hosted by the University of Houston on Friday, May 3. For all updates on Texas Lutheran Track and Field, follow @tluthrows and @tluxctf on Instagram as well as as all official TLU Athletics accounts. All schedule updates can be found on tlubulldogs.com.