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ABILENE, Texas – UT-Tyler's men and Texas Lutheran's women lead the American Southwest Conference Track & Field Championships after day one at Wilford Moore Stadium Friday. The Patriots posted 88 points to lead the men after day one and TLU had 94 points for the women with Saturday's events to spare.

In men's field events, McMurry's Paul Davis and Marcus Thompson highlighted the hosts' performance by winning the shot put and long jump respectively. Davis posted a throw of 53 feet and 0.25 inches defeating his competition by more than nine feet to take the ASC title. Thompson won the long jump with a mark of 23 feet and 1.25 inches.

Chris Stonestreet took the win for the hammer throw with a mark of 158-01.25 for UT-Tyler and Concordia-Texas' Chris Randle rounded out the men's field events winning the high jump with a mark of six feet and eight inches.

In the women's field events Devin Evans, Kristi Ellis and Claudia Gonzales each took events for Texas Lutheran. Evans won the long jump with a mark of 18-11.50, Ellis won the high jump with a mark of five feet and 2.25 inches while Gonzales won the shot put with a mark of 38-06.25.

Hardin-Simmons' Branell Flacon won the women's hammer throw with a mark of 123-07.00.

The only running events of day one were the steeplechase and the 10,000-meter run. Hardin-Simmons' Maloree Kendall won the women's steeplechase with a time of 12:09.83 while UT-Tyler's Jeff Chandler took the crown in the men's race with a time of 10:19.44. In the 10,000-meter race, TLU's Keelin Treacy took the women's title with a time of 41:03.38 while Warren Brown of UT-Tyler took the victory with a time of 36:31.38.

The remaining field events including the pole vault, javelin, discus, and triple jump resume at 9 a.m. Saturday with the remaining running events set to begin with a rolling time schedule at Noon.