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KANSAN.COM/SPORTS | MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017
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Senior Jacob Morgan crosses the finish line to place first in the men's 5,000-meter run on April 6 at the Korean Bay
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athletes finish in top-three positions, including seven first-place finishes. Their performances earned Kansas an additional 138 points to add onto the 93 earned by the field athletes.
"I can't believe how loud
Behind an exuberant home-crowd, several Kansas athletes contributed the home-track advantage to their strong performances.
In one of the final events of the evening, Morgan raced out to an early lead in the 5.000-meter race and never looked back. Morgan finished the race in 14:19:59, 2.8 seconds ahead of teammate Dylan Hodgson. The pair won 16 points between them.
in at a time of 3:53:57. Richards finished ahead of Joyce by 01 seconds.
"The cheering, I loved it. It was awesome," Richards said, looking toward the large crowd of Kansas fans.
Jacob Morgan Senior
I can't believe how loud people were getting on that backstretch, I was like 'dang, is that for me?"
The Kansas women's team also put on a good
dles event earlier in the day. Dabney finished the scored quadrangular race with a time of 14.48 seconds.
performance for the home crowd, finishing second in a hotly contested competition with 181.5 points. They trailed Minnesota by 14 points, which ended the night with 195.5 points.
Dabney felt some pain in her groin area throughout the day, but didn't feel that performing twice in one day affected her performance.
Dabney, who placed seventh out of a field of seven in the women's 100-meter hurdles, also competed in the college open 100-meter hur-
"I really wanted to score some points for my team and finish out the weekend," Dabney said.
Both the men's and women's team saw several athletes run multiple events throughout the day, one of whom was sophomore Gabbi Dabney.
Junior Christian Hicks was another athlete to compete twice for the Jayhawks, competing in both the college
open and scored quadrangular men's 110-meter hurdles.
Hicks beat his personal-record in the college open with a time of 14.28 seconds, but unfortunately for the Derby native, the wind was over two meters per second, the limit for an official personal-record. Hicks then followed that performance up in the scored invitational, finishing second behind California's Ashtyn Davis. Although the wind was under two meters per second, Hicks finished his race in 14.46 seconds, .01 seconds behind his personal-record.
"I needed a lot of times under my belt so I can keep lowering it. This definitely really helped me," Hicks said, looking ahead toward the Outdoor Big 12 Championships.
Kansas will return to action next week with the Jayhawks staying in Lawrence for the Rock Chalk Classic on Saturday, April 29, with the hammer throw kicking the meet off at 11 a.m.
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