TicketsApril 28, 2011
Drake Relays Heat Sheet | | RedHawk Invitational Heat Sheet
CINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati men's and women's track and field teams return to action this weekend in the final tune-up before the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships. The Bearcats will compete Friday and Saturday at the Drake Relays and at the RedHawk Invitational on Saturday.
Cincinnati will have 23 student-athletes travel to Des Moines, Iowa Friday and Saturday for Drake University's Drake Relays.
The first events UC will compete in Friday are the 4x100 preliminaries, starting with the women's race at 9:32 a.m. and followed by the men's at 9:48 a.m. Morgan Gordon, Natasha Burse, Shanay Portis and Aricka Rhodes will line up for the women, while Terrence Somerville, Chase VanCura, Darius Howard and Maurice Norman are entered for the men.
Dailyn Moore and Somerville will race in the 110-meter hurdle preliminaries at 11:35 a.m. Burse will then run the 100-meter dash prelim at 12:45 p.m.
Thowers Frida Akerstrom and Troy Cooper are entered in the shot put events, scheduled at 11:30 a.m. (women's) and 2:30 p.m. (men's).
The women's 4x400 relay prelim race begins at 3:40 p.m., with Portis, Ashley Arnold, Kathy Klump and Rhodes slated to race for UC. The men's 4x400 follows at 4:10 p.m. when Alex Howell, VanCura, Darnell Gilbert and Norman will compete for the Bearcats.
Final rounds of the Drake Relays are scheduled throughout the day on Saturday.
For the second time this season, UC will compete at Miami University's George L. Rider Track on Saturday for the RedHawk Invitational. Action is set to begin at 11 a.m. with the women's hammer throw and the men's shot put.
The track events will start at noon, beginning with the women's 5,000-meter race. The finale of the RedHawk Invitational is slated to take place at 3:25 p.m. with the men's 4x400 relay race.