Track & Field Heads To Notre Dame For Meyo Invite

February 06, 2015 | Track & Field

By: Ball State Athletics

MUNCIE, Ind. - - The Ball State track & field program continues its 2014-15 indoor campaign when it heads to Notre Dame for the 28th-Annual Meyo Invitational this Friday and Saturday at the Loftus Sports Center.

Action in the two-day event is slated to begin at 4 p.m. Friday with the women's pole vault, long jump and weight throw. Running events begin at 4:30 p.m. with the women's 60m hurdles. FloTrack will provide live video coverage of the meet (http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/251950), while Delta Timing will offer live results (http://results.deltatiming.com/tf/2015-meyo-invitational#.VNQ0N8J0zIU).

At last weekend's Wildcat Invitational hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University, the Cardinals posted a pair of event wins, eight career-best marks and 23 top 10 finishes.

QUICK HITS:

- Junior Marie Lumpkin (Losantville, Ind./Union) was one of two event winners at last weekend's Wildcat Invitational, taking top honors in the weight throw with a season-best toss of 17.73m (58-2) … The effort is a MAC Indoor Championship automatic qualifying mark and currently has Lumpkin ranked seventh in the league in the event.

- Senior Rebecca Lomax (Indianapolis, Ind./Southport) led Ball State at the Gladstein Invitational (Jan. 23), placing third in the pentathlon with 3574 points … Lomax's best effort came in the high jump, as she placed second with a season-best and MAC Indoor Championship automatic qualifying mark of 1.73m … Lomax ranks second in the MAC in the pentathlon and third in the high jump.

- Sophomore pole vaulter Elizabeth Eversole (Mishawaka, Ind./Marian) cleared the bar at a career-best height of 3.71m at the Gladstein Invitational (Jan. 23), which is the second-best individual effort in program history … Eversole's mark placed 10th in the meet and was just 0.04m shy of the school-record mark of 3.75m set by senior Hannah Ciasto-Poor (Bloomington, Ind./Bloomington South) at the Illini Classic (Jan. 17) … Ciasto-Poor's mark currently ranks 12th in the MAC, while Eversole's effort is 14th.

- Junior Christina Crawford (Belleville, Mich./Romulus) and sophomore Makelle Skelton (Fort Wayne, Ind./Northrop) enter the week ranked eighth (5.76m) and ninth (5.75m), respectively, in the Mid-American Conference rankings in the long jump … Both efforts are MAC Indoor Championship automatic qualifying marks … Crawford also ranks 10th in the 60m dash (7.70).

- After her first-place showing in the 800m run at the BG Opener (Jan. 10), junior Danielle Dahl (Chelsea, Mich./Chelsea) ranks 13th in the MAC in the event with a converted time of 2:14.89# … Dahl was Ball State's other event winner at last weekend's Wildcat Invitational, taking home top billing in the 600m run with a time of 1:37.26.

- Ball State's success in the jumps has carried over to the triple jump, with junior Zenée Gadson (Glassboro, N.J./Glassboro) and sophomore Gabrielle Perryman (Beachwood, Ohio/Beachwood) ranking 16th (11.13m) and 17th (11.12), respectively, on the MAC's 2014-15 indoor performance list.

- Ball State's student-athletes have posted one school record, 12 individual event wins and 45 career-best efforts through the first five meets of the season.

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