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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Chances were good that Tyrone Smith was going to get to make a trip to Boston in March to compete for the NCAA Division II championship in the long jump, but on Friday night he made certain that he will be boarding a plane to the east coast at the end of the indoor track season.
Smith won the long jump at the Razorback Invitational at the University of Arkansas with a leap of 25-2 3/4 that surpassed the automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Division II Championships. Smith edged Daryl Reeves, representing Real Deal Track Club by hitting the mark on his fifth jump of the night.
Also at Arkansas on Friday, Lucas Handley finished eighth in the pole vault with a mark of 15-5, the same height cleared by Jordan Henry as he finished 11th in the standings. Stuart Denson finished 15th in the long jump with a mark of 21-7 1/4, while Ian Packard recorded a time of 22.37 in the 200-meters.
Packard also competed in the 400-meters Saturday and finished his race in a time of 50.46 seconds, while Charles Melton ran a time of 7.25 seconds in the 60-meter dash.
UMR also had a contingent of competitors at the Central Missouri State Invitational in Warrensburg on Friday night and gained a provisional qualifier along the way.
Freshman Jarryd Dean finished in the high jump with a clearance of 6-8 3/4 that made the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying standard. Matt Bartels also had a third place finish in the 600-yard run in 1:16.29 and competed in the high jump where he took eighth at 6-0 3/4. UMR also got a third from Logan MacCash in the pole vault as he cleared 13-1 1/2.
Dean added a fourth place finish in the triple jump with a mark of 45-11 3/4 and Joffroi Holcombe finished fourth in the 3,000-meters with a time of 9:00.50.
UMR's highest finish in an event came from Chris Carsten in the shot put as he made a throw of 48-6 3/4. He also ended up seventh in the weight throw with a mark of 47-3.
Jesse Scott took fifth in the 400-meters with a time of 52.95 seconds, while Matt Osmond was sixth in the 800-meters in 2:01.57 as was Kurt Schauwecker in the 3,000-meters in 9:11.54, Steve Berg in the 60-meter hurdles as he posted a time of 9.03 and Kal-El Waters-Jones in the triple jump at 43-10.
UMR got seventh place showings from Paul Roland in the 800-meters in a time of 2:03.17, Kyle Williams in the 60-hurdles in 9.02 (missing the finals by 0.02 seconds),
Bryan Hogan finished eighth in the 400-meters in 54.04, a spot ahead of Brandon Marchegiani who had a time of 54.10. Nicholas Windhorst finished ninth in the high jump at 5-10 3/4, while Andrew Conrad finished tenth in the 800-meters in 2:05.25 as did Chris Murray in the 3,000 in 9:16.99.
UMR's 4x440-yard relay team of Osmond, Scott, Bartels and Roland finished third with a time of 3:34.35.
UMR will have several competing again at Arkansas on Saturday before taking next week off from competition. The Miners will return to the track Feb. 2 at Missouri Southern.
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