SHSU Runner’s Up To Rival SFA In SLC Track And Field Championships
Courtesy: Paul Ridings, Jr., SHSU Sports Information
Paced by gold medals by Karique Stephen, De’Quad Binder and Matthew Johnson, the Sam Houston men’s team finished as the runner-up in the 2013 Southland Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships Sunday in Lake Charles, La.
Stephen F. Austin won the men’s competition with 162 points.
Sam Houston State was second with 137.5.
The performance gives the Bearkat men bookend Southland runner-up trophies after Sam Houston also finished as the runner-up at the Southland Indoor meet in February.
Stephen won the triple jump with a mark of 51’ 9”.
His Bearkat teammate Charles White placed second with a distance of 51’ 3.75”.
Binder earned the Southland 800 meters championship with a time of 1:53.39.
Johnson took gold in the decathlon with 7,496 points Friday and Saturday.
Johnson won eight of the 10 events. Johnson also was a third place finisher in the 110 meter hurdles (14.35)
Matthew Viverette was the runner-up in the 110 meter hurdles (141.31)and placed third in the 400 meter hurdles (52.89).
Trevor Sealy placed second in the hammer (196’ 11”)
Sam Houston’s 4×100 relay of Treyvion White, Kristen Mitchell, Jarrick Wright and Leroy Harris were runners-up with a 41.19 clocking.
Andrew Waller, Viverette, Binder and Rodney Jones were runners-up in the 4×400 relay (3:14.75).
Clint Anders placed third in the 1500 meters (3:52.30). Rodney Jones was third in the 400 meters (47.21)
The Bearkat women earned a third place team finish behind Stephen F. Austin (171) and McNeese (134).
Sam Houston scored 100 points.
Adriene Quillin, Shelbie Zotyka and the women’s 4×400 relay brought home gold medals Sunday.
Quillin won the hammer with a throw of 181’ 5”. Zotyka vaulted 12’ 10.75”.
Tonicia Wimberley, Lygia Foreman, Ruth Amaku and Jordan Grady combined for a winning time of 3:41.40.
Amaku also was the runner-up in the 400 meter hurdles (1:00.91).
Winnie Ileso placed third in the 100 meter hurdles (14.08) and Foreman was third in the 400 meter dash (55.44)
Bearkat Football Players Earns SLC’s “Player of the Week”
Courtesy: Paul Ridings,Jr., SHSU Sports Information
Sam Houston State swept the weekly Southland Conference football player of the week honors after its 51-43 win over Stephen F. Austin in the 87th “Battle of the Piney Woods” at Reliant Stadium in Houston Saturday.
Junior quarterback Brian Bell was the offensive player of the week, junior cornerback Bookie Sneed won defensive honors and senior punter Matt Foster was the special teams player of the week.
Bell picked up 22nd career victory as starting quarterback for Sam Houston.
He directed the offense to 566 total yards in a 51-43 win over rival Stephen F. Austin.
The junior from China Spring, Texas (China Spring H.S.), completed 12 of 20 passes for 168 yards and totaled 69 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries. He passed for scores of 5, 31 and 30 yards and scored on runs of 1 and 9 yards and accounted for 237 yards total offense.
Sneed returned an interception 92 yards for touchdown that put Sam Houston State in the lead, 20-14, with 5:55 remaining in 2nd quarter. The return by the junior from Conroe, Texas (Conroe H.S.), was a school record, topping the previous mark of 90 yards set by Paul Wenzel against Sul Ross in 1968. He added 11 tackles against SFA.
Foster helped Sam Houston win the field position battle with a 45.1 average, including long of 61 yards. The senior from Melbourne, Australia, landed three punts inside the 20 that includes a high 43-yard punt with 3:10 left to play in the fourth quarter.
That put SFA on its own 15-yard line, forcing them to drive 85 yards in order to score a touchdown and go for a two-point conversion.
Sam Houston travels to Thibodaux, La., to take on the Nicholls State Colonels this Saturday at 6 p.m.
The Bearkats return to Huntsville in two weeks for their Homecoming battle with the McNeese State Cowboys. The game will be played at 7 p.m. on Nov. 20 at Bowers Stadium.
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