Staff Report
The UNM track and field team ended its final home meet of the season in impressive fashion as seven Lobos captured victories Saturday in the 12th Don Kirby Memorial Invitational at the Great Friends of UNM Track.
The seniors led the way for UNM, with Monica Christofferson, Jammy Kiggundu and Justin Massey claiming three of the Lobos' seven victories.
The women scored four victories while the men won three events.
Athletes from several regional schools were among the field, including Adams State College, Garden City College, University of Juarez, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Highlands University, Dine College, South Plains College and the University of Texas at El Paso.
Freshmen Kelli Myers and Amber Nolte picked up the first UNM wins of the day, taking the high jump and pole vault. Myers won the high jump with a leap of of 5-feet, 6.50-inches.
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Nolte won the pole vault with a jump of 11-feet, 9.75-inches in the pole vault.
Christofferson earned her first victory of the season in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1-minute, 3.47 seconds and freshman Amanda Barnes notched her second win in impressive fashion with a season-best toss of 45-feet, 1-inch in the shot put.
The 4x100-meter relay team claimed the men's first victory of the day courtesy of an illegal exchange disqualification of the apparent winner, Garden City College. In the men's 1,500-meter race, however, sophomore Chris Orrell never trailed en route to his first outdoor victory.
Kiggundu matched his season-best in the triple jump with a leap of 45-feet, 9.25-inches. Massey cruised to his second-straight win in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 53.50 seconds.
UNM wraps up the regular season with the UTEP Twilight Invitational May 4 in El Paso, Texas.
