Track & Field Set For Chipotle Marshall Invitational

MUNCIE, Ind. - - Coming off its best meet of the year, the Ball State track & field team will look to carry over the momentum into this weekend's Chipotle Marshall Invitational which runs Friday and Saturday at Marshall's Jeff Small Track at the Chris Cline Athletic Complex.

A total of 17 teams representing 10 conferences and nine stats are scheduled to compete in the meet which starts Friday at 5 p.m. with a pair of women's field events. Junior Adrienne Mayfield (Zion, Ill./Zion-Benton Township) will be the lone Ball State student-athlete competing Friday, as she is entered in the weight throw. Mayfield currently ranks 20th in the Mid-American Conference in the event with a career-best distance of 15.78m (51-9.25).

Saturday sees the Cardinals compete in 10 different events, starting at 9 a.m. with sophomore Regan Lewis (Greenfield, Ind./Greenfield-Central) in the high jump. Lewis is the highest ranked Ball State student-athlete entering the weekend, holding second in the high jump with a league automatic qualifying effort of 1.76m (5-9.25). If she can equal or better her career-best performance, Lewis will break the current meet record of 1.75m (5-8.75).

In the 60m hurdles, which starts Saturday at noon, sophomore Jazmin Smith (Cincinnati, Ohio/North College Hill) and freshman Jasmine Harris (Moreland Hills, Ohio/Orange) will be battling for the top spot while looking to break both the meet and track record. Smith and Harris enter the competition tied for third in the MAC at 8.53, which is a MAC Indoor Championships automatic qualifying mark. Entering the race, the meet record stands at 8.63, while the Jeff Small Track record is 8.59.

Sophomore Peyton Stewart (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North) is the next highest ranked Ball State student-athlete on the MAC performance list, holding down the fourth slot in the 60m dash with a career-fast and championship qualifying time of 7.56. Prelims of that race are slated to begin at 12:25 p.m.

Although she is not running in the event Saturday, Harris is 13th in the league in the 60m dash and is one of only two Cardinals to rank in the top 20 in a pair of individual events. The other is freshman sprinter Bryeana Byrdsong (Indianapolis, Ind./Warren Central) who is 13th in the 200m dash (24.94) and 16th in the 60m dash (7.71). Byrdsong is one of eight Ball State athletes set to compete in the 200m dash Saturday at 3:20 p.m.

A half hour earlier, at 2:50 p.m., freshmen Brooke Talhelm (Indianapolis, Ind./Franklin Central) and Peyton Kneadler (Monticello, Ind./Twin Lakes) look to improve their standings in the 800m run. Talhelm's time of 2:15.46 is currently 15th in the MAC, while Kneadler is 20th at 2:16.51.

Junior Gabby Sims (Columbus, Ind./Columbus North) rounds out Ball State's top-ranked athletes on the track, holding down 18th in the 400m dash at 57.04. She is schedule to run at 2:15 p.m. Saturday.

Ball State track & field fans can follow the action at the Chipotle Marshall Invitational with live results at the following link: http://results.kvtfoa.org/results/20170210-11/

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Track & Field Set For Chipotle Marshall Invitational

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Bryeana Byrdsong

Jasmine Harris

Peyton Kneadler

Regan Lewis

Adrienne Mayfield

Gabby Sims

Jazmin Smith

Peyton Stewart

Brooke Talhelm