TOPEKA -- The Barton Community College Cougar indoor track team earned three top 10 efforts and a meet record at Washburn University. The Cougars chalked up nine national qualifying performances and 11 personal or season bests.
Coming away with three individual titles and a runner-up within their ten Top-10 placings, the women added seven national tickets and two program list etchings.
Freshman Sanae Hassnaoui followed her impressive collegiate debut in not only adding another event to her national trip, but winning the mile run by fourteen seconds in the 104 competitor field in a program second best time of 4:51.25.
New weight throw national qualifier Cedricka Williams also made a program impact with a 16.83m (55-02.75) mark for 8th best in history in joining reigning KJCCC Field Athlete of the Week Treneese Hamilton who met qualifying standards last week and finished 10th this week on a lesser 15.44m (50-08.00) mark.
Hamilton also has her ticket punched from last week's shot put competition as this week's event added two more Cougars to the list as Ivanilda Semedo recorded a personal best 13.25m (43-05.75) heave in placing 5th overall out of 74 competitors with Williams garnering another ticket with a personal best 12.31m (40-04.75) mark to place 12th.
Barton's two other individual titles also punched national tickets. Chloe Perryman's personal best 7.63 beat the 66-entry 60m field with Keliza Smith, who also qualified in the short track sprint event last week, bettered the 43-entry 400m participants with a 55.98 time.
Kay-Lagay Clarke, who also qualified last week in the 60m hurdles, bettered her time to 8.85 in placing 4th and additionally added the triple jump to her national list with a runner-up placing 11.56m (37-11.25) mark.
On the men's side the Cougars picked up an additional pair of qualifying tickets, to go along with a meet record and individual title in their ten Top-10 placings.
One of the highlights again came from freshman Hamza Belkhalfi in putting his name on the Barton record book for the second consecutive week. Recording a program 4th best 1000m time last week, Belkhalfi etched his name in the mile run 8th slot this week with a 4:16.23 clocking to place 8th in the 103 competitor field.
Last week's conference and national field athlete of the week Christopher Young reset his meet record in the shot put by raising the bar to 18.08m (59-04.00) for the title of the 50-man field. Fellow national qualifiers Christopher Crawford placed 3rd (15.95m, 52-04.00) with Ricardo Hayles (15.60m, 51-02.25) in sixth place.
In addition to Belkhalfi's new qualifying ticket, the Cougars also picked up its second entry in the 60m hurdles. Bryce Southerland, who qualified last week, placed 5th on Saturday with an 8.36 in the finals after clocking an 8.15 in the prelims. Southerland was joined in the 8th placing by sophomore Jeramiah Martin's season best 8.16 to book his second straight indoor national trip in the event.
The Cougars' next meet is Friday in the two-day New Mexico Team Open held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Complete Washburn Rust Buster results
Barton Women's Results
60m: 1st Chloe Perryman (PB NQ 7.63), 7th Maria Umoibang (7.72 *Already NQ), 41st Myla Tabora (8.35)
60m Hurdles: 4th Kay-Lagay Clarke (SB 8.85), 15th Widlife Vermilus (9.86)
400m: 1st Keliza Smith (PB NQ 55.98), 18th Kialia Claiborne (1:02.00 *1st Time)
600yd: 15th Widlife Vermilus (1:42.87 *1st Time)
800m: 45th Raynisha Narcisse (2:38.65 *1st Time)
Mile Run: 1st Sanae Hassnaoui (NQ 4:51.25 *1st Time **Program 2nd All-Time), 102nd Karina Estrada (PB 7:03.37)
Long Jump: 14th Jazmine Williamson (5.11m, 16-09.25), 44th Myla Tabora (4.54m, 14-10.75 *1st Time)
Triple Jump: 2nd Kay-Lagay Clarke (NQ 11.56m, 37-11.25), 4th Jazmine Williamson (10.90m, 35-09.25 *1st Time)
Shot Put: 5th Ivanilda Semedo (PB NQ 13.25m, 43-05.75), 12th Cedricka Williams (PB NQ 12.31m, 40-04.75)
Weight Throw: 5th Cedricka Williams (PB NQ 16.83m, 55-02.75 *Program 8th All-Time), 10th Treneese Hamilton (15.44m, 50-08.00 *Already NQ), 21st Ivanilda Semedo (13.94m, 45-09.00), 28th Kyndall Blessing (13.10m, 42-11.75 *1st Time)
Barton Men's Results
60m: 4th Mekhi Stafford (6.84 *1st Time), 9th Wanyae Belle (6.98 *1st Time), 22nd Brandon Pemberton (7.08 *1st Time), 34th Marshae McDonald (7.25 *1st Time), 35th Noah Kincade (7.26)
60m Hurdles: 5th Bryce Southerland (8.36 *8.15 in Prelims **Already NQ), 8th Jeramiah Martin (DNF *8.16 SB NQ in Prelims)
400m Dash: 13th Marshae McDonald (50.42), 15th Charles Green (50.64 *1st Time), Jayden Singleton (50.95), Grayden Stapleton (53.39 *1st Time)
600yd: 3rd Corlando Chambers (1:13.23 *1st Time), 9th Manjot Singh (1:16.29 *1st Time)
800m Run: 17th Adrian Nethersole (1:58.20), 28th Jasiah Clapp (2:00.50 *1st Time)
Mile Run: 8th Hamza Belkhalfi (PB NQ 4:16.23 *8th Program All-Time)
Long Jump: 11th Trevon Hamer (6.71m, 22-00.25 *1st Time), 18th Kalil Murphy (PB 6.46m, 21-02.50)
Shot Put: 1st Christopher Young (18.08m, 59-04.00 *Meet Record **Already NQ), 3rd Christopher Crawford (15.95m, 52-04.00 *Already NQ), 6th Ricardo Hayles (15.60m, 51-02.25 *Already NQ), 21st Boris Peranovic (13.43m, 44-00.75 *1st Time)
Weight Throw: 6th Christopher Young (17.11m, 56-01.75 *Already NQ), 6th Christopher Crawford (PB 16.93m, 55-06.50 *Already NQ), 24th Boris Peranovic (13.33m, 43-08.75), 35th Ricardo Hayles (12.00m, 39-04.50 *1st Time)
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