WILLIAMSBURG, KY - The Clayton College & State University men's track & field team continued its strong spring showing Saturday with another top team finish, placing second in the Cumberland Invitational behind three first place finishes, including two meet records at the meet in Williamsburg, KY.  

Clayton State finished the meet with 91 points, trailing winner Tiffin University with 115 points. The Lakers had a good shot at winning the meet until Tiffin took the lead late with its results from the javelin competition.  

Freshman Brian Etelman (Marietta, GA) and the 4x400m relay team of Etelman, senior Tony Juarez (East Hazel Crest, IL), junior Carlos Guyton (Thomasville, GA) and freshman Eric Simmons (Carrollton, GA) led the way, setting meet records with their first place finishes.  

Etelman set the meet record with a time of 21.54 in the 200m and was only seven-hundredths of a second from his school record set earlier this season at the Emory Relays, a time that provisionally qualified him for the NCAA National Championships. His effort broke the meet record of Berea College's Jamie Eckford back in 2002 of 21.66. The 4x400m relay team set a new school record and the meet record with a time of 3:14.87, breaking the meet record set in the 2002 by Cumberland of 3:15.32. 

In addition to Etelman and the relay team, Guyton also brought home a first place finish in the 400m race with a personal best time of 48.48 and Simmons had similar success, winning the 800m with a time of 1:54.70.  

On the women's side, senior Penny Tinker (Mesa, AZ) had the top finish for the ladies, winning the 1500m race with a personal best time of 4:51.98, leading the squad to a season best team finish of seventh. Sophomore Beatrice Wade set two school records in the triple jump and 400m intermediate hurdles. She finished fifth in the triple jump with a leap of 33-feet 2-1/2 inches and eighth in the hurdles with a time of 1:15.70.  

In other top finishes for the men, Juarez placed second in the 800m with a time of 1:55.64, a day after he provisionally qualified in for nationals with a time of 3:52.97 in 1500m at the University of Tennessee's Sea Ray Relays.  

The men's 4x100m relay team of senior Elijah Ajayi (Riverdale, GA), Etelman, Guyton and Simmons placed second with a time of 42.20. Ajayi also placed third in the 100m with a time of 10.99, while senior Rother Heard (Conyers, GA) finished third in the long jump with a leap of 21-6 ¼ and fourth in the triple jump at 45-1. 

Senior Stephen Hughes (Hampton, GA) finished fifth in the 800m race with a personal best time of 1:57.62, while junior Oscar Campos (El Monte, CA) finished fifth in the 3,000m steeple chase with a time of 10:15.39. Clayton State's second 4x400m relay team of junior Adil Berkhedle (Scarborough, Ontario), Heard, Ajayi and Hughes finished fifth with a time of 3:25.77.  

In other top finishes for the women, sophomore Melissa Shaw (Morrow, GA) placed third in the 800m with a time of 2:18.35, and the 4x400m relay team of Tinker, Wade, sophomore Heather Krehbiel (Peachtree City, GA) and Shaw finished third with a time of 4:18.10. 

Tinker also had a fourth place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:22.75 and Krehbiel had a fourth place in the 1500m with a time of 5:00.22.  

             Clayton State will return to the track on Saturday, April 17th, traveling for the University of Alabama-Huntsville Invitational. The meet will be on the campus of Alabama A&M.