Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays

 
AUSTIN, Texas—South Dakota senior Jacy Pulse placed third in the 400-meter hurdles at the 96th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on Friday inside Mike A. Myers Stadium.
 
Pulse posted a time of 57.87 seconds, just off her preliminary time of 57.61 from yesterday, to finish third in the final. Pulse was a second-team All-American in the event last spring.
 
The women's 4x100-meter relay of senior Erin Kinney, Pulse, junior Anna Robinson and redshirt-junior Sara Reifenrath qualified for tomorrow's final by placing second in their heat with a time of 45.07 seconds. The time is the third-fastest in program history.
 
Kinney also finished 18th in the 100 meters with a time of 11.36 seconds.
 
Fifth-year seniors Ardell Inlay and Dylan Kautz took 33rd and 34th, respectively, in the men's 100 meters. Inlay clocked a personal best of 10.50 seconds, which ranks seventh in USD history. Kautz clocked 10.52 seconds.
 
South Dakota also had several athletes excel in the Texas Relays 'B' finals.
 
Junior Averi Schmeichel clocked a personal best of 13.73 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles. She was third in the timed finals. The time improves her personal best by two-hundredths of a second.
 
The men's 4x400-meter relay finished fourth in the timed finals. Junior Thomas Nikkel, junior Ken-Mark Minkovski, freshman Alexander Wear and Inlay combined for a time of 3:16.36.
 
Sophomore Bennett Schwenn leaped a wind-aided 23-11 (7.29m) in the 'B' section of the men's long jump for sixth place.
 
Junior Joe Lynch cleared an outdoor best of 6-11 (2.11m) in the 'B' section of the men's high jump. He took eighth in the competition.
 
Sophomore Mikael Grace clocked a wind-aided 14.15 seconds for seventh in the timed finals of the men's 110-meter hurdles.
 

Texas State Bobcat Invitational

 
SAN MARCOS, Texas—South Dakota senior Meredith Clark won the shot put at the Bobcat Invitational Friday inside Texas State Track & Field Complex.
 
Clark sent the shot a distance of 50-8 ¼ (15.45m) to open the outdoor season with a victory at Texas State. Sophomore Kinsley Ragland took third and junior Delaney Smith took third and fourth, respectively, with both throwing a best mark of 43-10 ½ (13.37m).
 
Senior Jaidyn Garrett finished runner-up in the women's pole vault with a height of 13-2 ½ (4.03m). Fourth-year junior Alayna Falak and freshman Kailee Swart tied for seventh.
 
Following up yesterday's Texas Relays race, junior Averi Schmeichel recorded a third-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles at the Bobcat Invitational in 1:01.07.
 
Junior Wyatt Pruce placed third in the 'B' section of the men's hammer throw after posting a season-opening mark of 169-7 (51.70m).
 
Senior Riley Griffith took third in the 'B' section of the women's hammer throw with a mark of 163-11 (49.97m). Ragland took sixth in the hammer throw competition as well.
 
Senior Ella Byers finished fourth in the 1,500 meters in a season-best 4:29.73. She had clocked 4:32 at the Texas Relays to open the season on Thursday. Redshirt-freshman Alexus Sindelar was 10th in the 1,500-meter race.
 
Sindelar's brother, Mason Sindelar, was fifth in the men's 1,500 meters with a time of 3:53.08.
 
Redshirt-junior Tre Young took fifth in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-11 ½ (5.17m).
 
Senior Ethan Heitman tied for sixth in the men's high jump after a third-attempt make of 6-9 (2.06m). Sophomore Landon Olson was 10th in the field.
 
Freshman Tyler Laughlin took eighth in the 'B' section of the men's shot put with a throw of 45-10 ¾ (13.99m).
 
South Dakota returns to action at both the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays and the Texas State Bobcat Invitational on Saturday.