MT finishes second, fourth at C-USA Championships

Thursday, May 11

El Paso, Texas

Middle Tennessee

Conference USA

5/15/2017 1:13:00 AM | Track & Field/Cross Country

Choge, Dadzie grab conference honors in final day

By: @MTAthletics

EL PASO, Texas – Middle Tennessee's women finished second while the men's team finished fourth to close the 2017 edition of the C-USA Championships.

The Blue Raiders grabbed seven first-place finishes on the final day. Jacob Choge claimed the Freshman of the Year on the men's side, while Elizabeth Dadzie finished as the High Point Scorer of the Meet for the women.

"We got about all we could out of these athletes. We have quality without the quantity. Janet Amponsah was a double winner, Agnes Abu was a double winner and Jacob Choge was a double winner. Some of them ran on the relay as well," Coach Dean Hayes said. "We did a good job. We don't hardly lose anybody off the women's team, so we are looking forward to next year. We can't ask them to do any more than they did."

Janet Amponsah finished first in both the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash, while Agnes Abu grabbed a pair of wins in the 800-meter run and 1500-meter run.

Jacob Choge finished the men's side with a pair of distance wins in the 5000-meter run and the 10000-meter run.

In the relays, MT's women's team of Amponsah, Abu, Loveth Odia and Abike Egbeniyi finished first and broke an 11-year-old record in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:35.21 to close the meet.

Next up, the NCAA Regionals are scheduled for May 25-27 and will be held in Lexington, Ky.

Day 1 Results
Day 2 Results
Day 3 Results
Final Results

Men's Results
100 Meter:
3. Tahir Walsh, 10.34

200 Meter:
5. Tahir Walsh, 20.84

400 Meter:
6. Adeniji Adedamola, 47.16

800 Meter:
2. Eliud Rutto, 1:47.74
6. Kigen Chemadi, 1:56.41
8. Sampson Laari, 2:10.32

1500 Meter:
3. Kigen Chemadi, 3:47.15
4. Sampson Laari, 3:48.50
6. Geoffry Cheruiyot, 3:53.16
7. Hillary Rono, 3:54.16
9. Eliud Rutto, 3:55.55ff
10. Jacob Choge, 3:55.66

5000 Meter:
1. Jacob Choge, 15:08.50
5. Geoffry Cheruiyot, 15:19.50
12. Amos Cheruiyot, 15:39.20

10000 Meter:
1. Jacob Choge, 30:06.76
4. Amos Cheruiyot, 31:20.37

3000 Meter Steeplechase:
1. Geoffry Cheruiyot, 8:58.56

4x100 Meter Relay
6. Adedamola, Walsh, Simmons, Umoh; 41.20

4x400 Meter Relay
9. Adedamola, Walsh, Umoh, Rutto; 3:22.49

High Jump:
2. Jacob Patten, 2.13m

Triple Jump
5. Phillip Smith, 15.07m
11. Jacob Patten, 14.21m

Women's Results
100 Meter:
1. Janet Amponsah, 11.39

200 Meter:
1. Janet Amponsah, 22.90

400 Meter:
1. Abike Egbeniyi, 52.63
6. Loveth Odia, 53.47

800 Meter:
1. Agnes Abu, 2:07.99
8. Abike Egbeniyi, 2:38.83

1500 Meter:
1. Agnes Abu, 4:27.51

5000 Meter
9. Rachel Kigen, 18:07.30
10. Sharon Kibiwott, 18:24.83

10000 Meter:
7. Julia Jelagat, 38:21.40

100 Meter Hurdles:
2. Elizabeth Dadzie, 13.40

3000 Meter Steeplechase
2. Rachel Kigen, 11:00.57 (PR)
5. Sharon Kibiwott, 11:22.92 (PR)
6. Rhema Cheruiyot, 11:24.38

4x100 Meter Relay
7. Day, Amponsah, Odia, Dadzie, 45.87

4x400 Meter Relay
1. Amponsah, Abu, Odia, Egbeniyi, 3:35.21

High Jump
10. Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammad, 1.67m

Long Jump:
1. Elizabeth Dadzie, 6.20m
3. Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammad, 5.85m
18. Taylor Day, 5.48m
19. Atarah Abdullah-Muhammad, 5.47m

Triple Jump
7. Elizabeth Dadzie, 12.16m
16. Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammad, 11.58m

Javelin:
6. Elizabeth Dadzie, 39.47m

Heptathlon:
1. Elizabeth Dadzie, 5,832 points
                  1. 100 Meter Hurdles, 13.47 (1,055 points)
                  3. High Jump, 1.67m (818 points)
                  3. Shot Put, 11.67m (639 points)
                  1. 200 Meter Dash, 24.59 (925 points)
              1. Long Jump, 6.34m (956 points)
              3. Javelin, 39.56m (659 points)
                  3. 800 Meter, 2:23.26 (780 points)
5. Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammad, 5,033 points
                  6. 100 Meter Hurdles, 14.47 (918 points)
                  6. High Jump, 1.64m (783 points)
                  19. Shot Put, 8.78m (450 points)
                  5. 200 Meter Dash, 25.54 (838 points)
              2. Long Jump, 5.95m (834 points)
              9. Javelin, 30.95m (495 points)
                  7. 800 Meter, 2:28.22 (715 points)

*PR – Personal Record
*SR – School Record

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Women - Team Rankings - 7 Events Scored

1) UTEP 153                           2) Middle Tennessee 126
3) Charlotte 85.50                   4) Southern Miss. 85
5) Rice 82                                6) WKU 67
7) Marshall 43                         8) FIU 41
9) North Texas 35                   10) UTSA 30.50
11) Florida Atlantic 30            12) Louisiana Tech 22
13) UAB 19
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Men - Team Rankings - 8 Events Scored

1) WKU 144                                       2) UTSA 138
3) UTEP 117                                       4) Middle Tennessee 95
5) Charlotte 88.50                               6) Southern Miss. 68.50
7) Rice 68                                            8) FIU 39
9) North Texas 37                               10) Louisiana Tech 23