RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The Cal State San Marcos men's track & field team posted an NCAA provisional, a school record and four total top-10 program marks at the RCC Invitational on Friday.
 
TOP PERFORMANCES

• Kalathan Laiwa-McKay broke his own school record in the shot put with a winning distance and NCAA provisional of 17.74 meters - .39 better than his previous best. Will Prouty also bested his previous mark at a distance of 13.48 meters, moving to eighth in program history.
• Gio Moya posted the eighth-best 400-meter hurdle time in team history at 54.09 seconds.
• The team of Dre Johnson, Jason Wells, Elliot Wright and Troy Thompson Jr. recorded the ninth-best 4x100-meter relay time in program history at 41.99 seconds.
• Nick Melanese won the 800-meter run with a time of 1:52.25 while Braden Oberg took third at 1:53.75.
• Mateo Gomez finished second out of 15 in the long jump with a wind-aided mark of 7.07 meters.
• Melanese finished third out of 41 in the 1500-meter run at 3:54.54.
• Out of 26 entrants, Prouty and Laiwa-McKay finished third and fourth in the hammer throw with marks of 49.97 and 49.94 meters, respectively.

 
TEAM SCORES
1. Riverside – 204; 2. UC San Diego – 147; 3. Cal Poly Pomona – 98; 4. Cal State San Marcos – 86; 5. Unattached – 49; 6. California Baptist – 41; 7. Cal State LA – 26; 8. Azusa Pacific – 24; 9. Performance Elite Running – 8; 10. UC Riverside – 6; 11. Performance Elite – 3; 12. San Diego - 1
 
UP NEXT
The Cougars will compete in two meets next week at the Beach Opener on Friday and Saturday and the Occidental Distance Carnival & Spring Break Classic on Saturday.