OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City heads to Norman on Saturday for the OU Invitational with the Stars beginning action at 11:30 a.m.
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OCU Notebook
Previously: For the second year in a row, the Oklahoma City women missed the Sooner Athletic Conference Track and Field Championship by a single point. The Stars won four events on Saturday, two by each team.
Erika Pena won the women's 800 meters in 2:17.20 as the Stars scored in the top three places in the event.Â
Isabella Gutierrez was second at 2:20.02 andÂ
Isabelle Spiller was third at 2:21.68. In a repeat result for the Readnour twins,Â
Kenzi Readnour placed first in the women's 5000 meters, edging out her sister,Â
Keira Readnour at second in 18:54.90. The side-by-side finish was a duplicate of Thursday's 10K, when Kenzi edged her sister by five/100ths of a second.
Demarion Dean andÂ
Ayenew Devany were men's winners on Saturday. Dean won the 800 in 1:53.43 to lead a four-pronged scoring finish in the event.Â
Alexander Daly was second at 1:54.92, Devany was seventh at 2:01.16 andÂ
Cooper Phillips was eighth at 2:02.10. Devany won the men's 5000 in 15:20.72 and the Stars also scored in the event from fifth place asÂ
Jackson Fowler finished in 15:45.72. The Stars won six events on Friday.
Isaiah Smith won the men's high jump at 6-5.5 and Horn scored in the women's discus from sixth at 34.44 for OCU's field event entries. On the track, Pena and Spiller had a pair of victories each. They teamed up withÂ
Kenzi Readnour and Gutierrez to win the 4x800 relay in 9:17.23. Pena also won the women's 1500 in 4:43.36, with Gutierrez also scoring in that event with a second-place 4:44.28. The relay team met the NAIA B standard for nationals. Spiller captured the 3000 steeplechase in 11:55.69.
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All-SAC Women: Six members of the Oklahoma City University women's track and field team earned All-Sooner Athletic Conference honors, the league announced on Wednesday.
Isabella Gutierrez,
Erika Pena,
Kenzi Readnour and
Isabelle Spiller were selected First-Team and
Vanessa Perez and
Keira Readnour were selected as Second-Team.
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All-SAC Men: Oklahoma City had six members of its men's track and field team on the All-Sooner Athletic Conference team, the league announced on Wednesday.
Alexander Daly,Â
Demarion Dean,Â
Ayenew Devany,Â
Riley Randall andÂ
Isaiah Smith made first-team All-SAC.Â
Jackson Fowler made second-team All-SAC.
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OCU Women's Entries: Representing the OCU women at OU are
Alexandria Horn,
Erika Pena,
Isabella Gutierrez,
Kenzi Readnour and
Keira Readnour.
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OCU Men's Entries: Entries this week for the OCU men are
Ayenew Devany,
Jackson Fowler,
Cooper Phillips,
Isaiah Smith,
Riley Randall and
Javier Medina.
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OCU Schedule
11:30 a.m. – Women's Javelin:
Alexandria Horn
1:40 p.m. – Men's 1500:
Ayenew Devany,
Jackson Fowler,
Cooper Phillips
1:55 p.m. – Women's 1500:
Erika Pena,
Isabella Gutierrez
2 p.m. – Men's High Jump:
Isaiah Smith
3:05 p.m. – Men's 800M:
Riley Randall
3:15 p.m. – Women's 800M:
Erika Pena
4 p.m. – Women's Discus:
Alexandria Horn
4:05 p.m. – Men's 5000M:
Javier Medina
4:20 p.m. – Women's 5000M:
Kenzi Readnour,
Keira Readnour
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