Texas Lutheran Takes Second at SCAC Championships, McDonough Named Male Athlete of the Meet
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The Texas Lutheran men's track and field team took second place at the 2022 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Track and Field Championships this weekend. The Bulldogs tallied 204 points over the course of the two-day meet.
Junior Caimen McDonough (Canyon Lake/Canyon Lake) was named Male Athlete of the Meet in the post-meet Awards Ceremony Sunday for his performance. McDonough took first place in the triple jump, posted a second-place finish in the 400 hurdles, a pair of third-place finishes in the high jump and long jump, and added a fourth-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles, earning 34 points in the meet. McDonough would set new school records in the long jump (7.15m) and triple jump (14m).
Five individuals claimed gold on Sunday. Scottie Reyes (Dilley/Dilley) won gold in the discus for the second year in a row with a 46.34m mark. Gerrit Twitero (McQueeney/Seguin) won gold in the men's high jump - establishing a new school record with a mark of 1.97-meters. The record-setting day continued with Caimen McDonough winning the triple jump with a school record mark of 14 meters. Weston Geiger (Shiner/St. Paul) won the javelin throw with a mark of 53.66m. After winning the 200 on Saturday, Freshman Elijah Jefferson (San Antonio/Construction Careers Academy) would add another gold to his collection winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.72 seconds - a top five finish in SCAC history.
Chase Cook (Austin/McNeil) would join Reyes on the podium finishing as the runner-up in the discus with a 42.93m mark that moved him into third on the conference leaderboard for the season. Ezrael Powell (San Antonio/Marshall) would earn a bronze finish in the triple jump and 100m dash with a 13.30m mark in the triple jump and time of 10.95 seconds in the 100m dash.
Full Results: https://tlubulldogs.com/sports/mtrack-out/2021-22/files/2022_SCAC_Mens_Track_and_Field_Results.pdf
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