Abilene Christian, the preeminent track and field program in NCAA Division II, showed it is unwilling to lose that moniker as the Wildcats won both the men’s and women’s titles Saturday night at Mt. San Antonio College and hosted by Cal Poly Pomona.

The men won the team title for the 17th time and the women won for the 10th time. And it marks the seventh time the teams have won the title in the same year. The men’s team earned 108.5 points to out-distance runner-up St. Augustine’s by six and a half points. Ashland was third, Adams State fourth and Lincoln fifth.

On Saturday, the Wildcats won four individual men’s titles – 400 (Raymond Radway, 46.35), 3,000-meter steeplechase (Daniel Maina, 8:53.61), 110 high hurdles (Billy Walker, 13.86), and discus (Nick Jones, 56.99 meters).

The women’s Wildcats ran away with the win. They scored 76.5 points and won by 21.5 points over runner-up Adams State. Lincoln was third, UC San Diego fourth and Southern Illinois-Edwardsville fifth. Abilene Christian’s women won three individual titles – 400 (Keva Watkins, 54.05), 3,000-meter steeplechase (Winrose Karunde, 10:20.42) and javelin (Linda Brivule, 51.74 meters). Karunde’s and Brivule’s victories were meet records. She surpassed the time of 10:22.06, set by Jennifer Michel of Western State in 2001. Brivule’s distance of 169-9 topped the mark of 169-0, set by Amber Miller of Angelo State in 2003.

Dennis Boone of St. Augustine was a double-winner as he took the two sprints, the 100 and 200. He won the 100 in 10.21 seconds and less than an hour later won the 200 in 20.65. Chico State’s Scott Bauhs, who won last year’s 10,000 title, won his only event of the meet – the 5,000. He won in 14:00.65.

St. Augustine’s Barbara Pierre successfully defended her title in the 100 meters. She won in 11.47 seconds.

–Courtesy Cal Poly Pomona Athletics