CSUN Posts 7 Individual Victories At Red & Black Invitational

Friday, April 2

Northridge, Calif.

All Day

California State University at Northridge

Red & Black Invitational

Complete Results

Photo by: Braden Villanueva

4/2/2021 3:48:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field

Complete Results

NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—The CSUN men's and women's track and field teams combined for seven individual victories as the Matadors hosted the Red & Black Invitational Friday afternoon.

MEN

The CSUN men would tally three individual victories. Mathieu Tshani was the winner in the triple jump as he charted a leap of 49-8 1/4. Tshani was second in the long jump as well (22-6 1/4).Freshmen Quinn Garity and Jaime Gonzalez won events for the Matadors. Garity was the winner in the 1500m (4:07.27). Gonzalez was victorious in the 3000m (9:03.15).
Garity returned later in the meet to earn second-place honors in the 800m (1:55.19). Five other Matadors posted second-place finishes. De Marq Jaque placed second in the 400m by running a career-best :48.03.
Noah Contreras was second in the 1500m (4:09.31). Patrick Acholonu earned runner-up honors in the 100m by running a time of :11.03. Ahmed Mohamed earned second in the triple jump by going 48-10 1/4.
Contreras saw double-duty in the 800m where he finished fourth (1:59.11). James Moore had a fourth in the 3000m (9:19.00).
The 4x400m relay of Eric Vivanco, Bryce Smith, Jaylon Hartdige, and Jaque were third (3:16.72).

WOMEN

The Matador women were victorious in four events. Sonsoles Barba won her second consecutive long jump as she went 18-7 1/4. Barba was the runner-up in the 400m as she ran :59.01.
Brisa Guzman-Sanchez took top honors in the 100m hurdles in a time of :14:23. Guzman-Sanchez returned later in the meet for a seventh-place finish in the 200m (:26.41).
Brianna Kelpis won the javelin with a toss of 114-8. Kelpis later finished third in the 100m hurdles (:15.57). She competed in a third event, the high jump, where she was third after going 4-10 1/4.
Sameerah Evans was the triple jump winner as she posted a leap of 41-3 1/4. Her performance is the second longest by a CSUN freshman in school history and tied her with Sydney Berry (2018) for the eighth longest in school history. She was also fifth in the long jump (17-1 1/4).
Heidi Eligio (5:10.02) and Sonia Avila (5:26.07) placed fourth and fifth in the 1500m for the Matadors.

"I was really happy with how our team responded today," said CSUN head coach Justin Johnson. "I told them last week that we need to get better every time we touch the track and we were able to do that today. We had athletes post lifetime best in every event area. We still have a lot of room for improvement but we will continue to chip away at it."

This was the first home track meet for CSUN since 2018. Joining CSUN at the Matador Track Complex were CSU Bakersfield, UC Davis, and UC Irvine. The Matadors travel to the Triton Invitational next Saturday. Action gets underway at 1 p.m. with the first field event. The first running event is set for 2:05 p.m.

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