MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (Apr. 10, 2021) – The Truett McConnell University men's track & field team competed at the Trojan Relays, which was hosted by the University of Mount Olive, on Saturday. The Bears finished third of 21 teams with 74 total points. Host Mount Olive won the invitational with 163 points, while the University of North Carolina Wilmington finished runner-up with 84 points.
 
Keontrae Clayton and Kyle Stringer led the Bears setting new program records. Clayton finished fourth in the men's 100m with new record time of 10.71. Kyshone Davenport and Joe Parrilla both followed back-to-back. Davenport took sixth with a time of 10.74, while Parrilla took seventh with a time of 11.06.
 
Stringer highlighted TMU's field events setting the new discus record with a throw of 43.38m, which allowed him to place fifth of 24 individuals. Stringer also tied the shot put record with a third-place finish and throw of 14.22m, which is the mark sophomore Seth Fowler recorded last weekend. Fowler followed in fourth with a throw of 13.77m. Also placing in the top 10 for TMU was freshman Austin Mathis in eighth with a mark of 13.26m.
 
Mathis also individually placed fifth of 14 in the men's javelin throw with a mark of 43.85m. Stringer followed in seventh (38.64m), Fowler took eighth (38.57m) and Dillon Gooch placed ninth (36.96m). 
 
The men's 4x100m relay, which features Parrilla, Davenport, Hoy Thurman IV and Clayton, finished first of six with a time of 41.93. Adam Granade, Isaac Banks, Simeon Lipsey and Kris Fuller, of the men's 4x800m relay, also earned points for TMU with a second-place finish (8:58.46).
 
Junior Sharod Cobbs finished runner-up of 17 in the men's 400m hurdles with a time of 53.52. In case you missed it, Cobb already previously punched his ticket to the NAIA National Championships. 
 
In the men's 400m, Thurman took fourth of 36 with a time of 50.14. Freshman Kenny Williams followed closely in fifth with a time of 50.19.
 
Junior Donald Swinson placed eighth of 26 in the men's 800m with a time of 2:02.41.
 
Rounding out the Bears' top 10 finishes was Lipsey in the men's pole vault with a fourth-place finish and mark of 3.80m. 
 
See TMU's complete list of results above.