CHICAGO – The Chicago State men’s track & field managed to garner nine top-10 finishes as it competed at the annual EIU Big Blue Classic on April 3 at O’Brien Field in downstate Charleston, Ill.
Junior Daniel Fleming (South Holland, Ill.) posted the highest individual finish for CSU when he captured third place in the long jump with a mark of 22-11.75, which currently ranks him second in the Great West Conference in the event.
Fleming later teamed with sophomore Jonathan Majors (Richton Park, Ill.), junior Jerrel Thornton (Chicago, Ill.) and sophomore Uri Kuyoro (Harvey, Ill.) to place third in the 4x100-meter relay at 43.15. Fleming, Kuyoro and Majors later collaborated with senior Joshua Campbell (Cartersville, Ga.) to finish seventh in the 4x400-meter relay after recording a time of 3:32.01.
Majors finished fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.98 and Campbell placed 10th in the 400-meter hurdles at a time of 58.10.
Freshman Matthew Jordan (Mogadore, Ohio) also tallied a pair of top-10 finishes by taking fourth in the 5,000-meter run at a time of 16:18.02 in addition to finishing 10th in the 10,000-meter run with a PR time of 34:23.90. Joining Jordan in the 10,000m race was senior Arturs Bareikis (Oak Forest, Ill.), who placed eighth at a personal-best time of 34:11.47.
In the javelin event, junior Earnest Jones (Chicago, Ill.) recorded his second personal-best mark of the outdoor season after posting a toss of 124-08 to place fifth, and senior Anthony Davis (Gurnee, Ill.) produced a PR in his first-ever competition in the event with a mark of 82-08 to finish eighth.
CSU stays home this Saturday as it will compete in the annual Chicagoland Championships, held at the University of Chicago, beginning at 11 a.m.
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