Collin Matiza — Sports activities Editor
THERE was no pleasure for Zimbabwean athletes Vimbayi Maisvorewa and Makanakaishe Charamba as they walked away empty-handed through the last day of the Southeastern Convention Indoor Monitor and Discipline Championships at Fayetteville in Arkansas, United States, on Saturday.
After having certified for Saturday’s ladies’s 400m sprint last by breaking the varsity’s long-standing report, Maisvorewa didn’t get a top-three end within the last.
In keeping with experiences from Fayetteville, lower than 24 hours after breaking the varsity report within the 400m, junior Maisvorewa completed sixth in 52.72 seconds.
The Zimbabwean sprinter established a brand new faculty greatest on Friday evening clocking a time of 52.16.
After racing within the 400m sprint, Maisvorewa shifted her consideration to the ladies’s 4x400m relay on Saturday.
Auburn’s relay group of Abasiono Akpan, Ashantae Harvey, Zuriel Reed, and Maisvorewa ran the third-fastest 4x400m relay in class historical past in 3:32.75 en path to a seventh-place displaying. Maisvorewa’s fellow Zimbabwean, Charamba, who can be on an athletics scholarship at Auburn College, racing in his first SEC indoor meet, scored for the Tigers taking eighth place within the males’s 200m in 21.37 seconds. Auburn freshman Kanyinsola Ajayi turned the third Tiger SEC Champion within the final 4 years within the males’s 60m sprint, claiming gold on Saturday successful in a time of 6.60 through the last day of competitors on the Randal Tyson Monitor Centre.
Ajayi’s win was the primary by an Auburn male freshman at SEC indoors since Sajay Ayre received within the 400m sprint 24 years in the past. He joined Favour Ashe (2023) and Dante Brown (2021) to win the occasion for Auburn within the final 4 years. Auburn has Junior switch Simone Jonhson bronze within the ladies’s triple bounce with a leap of 13.06m/42-10.25 on her second bounce, lacking second place by lower than an inch. Senior Amy Warren, seventh within the occasion final yr, established her greatest end at SECs, closing with a fourth place after a mark of 12.79m/41-11.5 on her fifth try.
Senior Sanaa Barnes equalled her private greatest within the excessive bounce, clearing 1.85m/6-0.75 to seize fourth place within the ladies’s excessive bounce. Barnes’ fourth-place end was the Tigers’ greatest within the occasion since Monica Carney was fourth in 2012.
Within the ladies’s mile, freshman Camila Gomes was fifth in 4:40.27, marking the varsity’s fourth-fastest time indoor time in AU historical past and the perfect end by a Tiger freshman within the occasion since 2002.
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Sophomore Michael Could completed the ultimate day of the lads’s heptathlon with a private greatest within the 1000m, crossing in 2:36.14 to complete with 5,559 factors, good for sixth place general. Could, who completed fifth as a freshman gave Auburn its eighth consecutive yr to have not less than one scorer within the occasion. Within the males’s shot put, sophomore Matthew Rueff improved from sixteenth place as a freshman to eighth as a sophomore. On his sixth and last toss, Rueff posted an 18.17m/59-7.5 for a brand new lifetime greatest.
Senior Ryan Kinnane ran a powerful 3000m race ending in 7:55.28, the second quickest time in class historical past and fewer than a second behind Brian Abshire’s faculty report of seven:54.66 set in 1986. Kinnane took sixth general within the race, enhancing 13 spots from his end a yr in the past. The Auburn ladies completed seventh with 41 factors, the Tiger’s greatest end at SEC indoors since 2012. Auburn’s males had been eleventh within the group standings with 29 factors. Host Arkansas swept the group titles.