MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – In his last performance as a Jaguar, Anton Graphenreed won the men’s 200-meter dash in a personal-best 21.18 seconds to lead the University of South Alabama track and field teams at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, which culminated Sunday at the Murphy Center
 
The senior from Columbus, Ga., also took fourth in the 55 meters, crossing the line in 6.36 seconds to best his own fourth-place all-time 6.37 mark.
 
The championship performance in the 200 improves Graphenreed’s rank as the second-fastest 200-meter man in South Alabama indoor history, and marks his fourth title in six competitions in the event during the 2011-12 indoor season.
 
The win gave the USA men’s team 10 points – the most earned by a Jaguar male on Sunday – to force the Jags ahead of both Arkansas-Little Rock and Louisiana-Monroe to a team finish of fifth with 62 total points.
 
The Lady Jags finished sixth overall with 63.50 team points after standing at second on Saturday.
 
Tori Lawson earned all-SBC honors in both the women’s 5,000 meters and mile run on Sunday, earning 12 points to bring her individual weekend total to 15. Lawson finished third in the 5,000 in a time of 17:12.89 – the fastest in Lady Jag indoor history – and her third-place 5:00.33 in the mile was only two seconds off her personal-best 4:58.80, which ranks third on the women’s indoor all-time list.
 
Joey Torres broke the USA weight throw record for the second time this season when he posted an 18.43m mark to finish second overall. In his 2012 debut for the Jaguars at the Birmingham Invitational (Jan. 26), Torres threw 17.99m to become the Jags’ then-best, but fellow-senior Steven Nobles surpassed his mark at the Vulcan Invitational (Feb. 11) with an 18.09m effort.
 
Nobles took seventh on Sunday with 17.13m to earn two team points and compliment Torres’s eight.
 
Latifah Johnson broke her own school record in the women’s weight throw on a fourth-place 18.31m effort, which cleared her previous mark (16.70m) by 1.51 meters to give USA its fourth school record of the weekend.
 
Connor Smith moved from fourth to second all-time after a fourth-place finish in the men’s heptathlon on a point total of 4,757. Garrett Schumacher, who still holds the indoor record in the event, accumulated only five fewer points to place fifth, and Ashton Krause and Mikel Magnusson took sixth (4,672) and seventh (4,476), respectively, to give the Jags a total of 12 team points in the event.
 
Magnusson, a freshman of Valley Head, Fla., earned a fifth-place spot on the Jaguar top-five list in the event with his total.
 
Smith also took fifth in the men’s pole vault, tying his indoor PR with a 4.65m clearance. Smith led William Henley (6^th, 4.50m) and Taylor Krause (7^th, 4.50m) in the event, which saw the Jags garner nine team points.
 
Alex Shields and Justin Housley netted nine points for the men after the two finished fourth and seventh in the men’s 800 meters in times of 1:57.02 and 1:57.71, respectively.
 
The men’s 4x400-meter relay team of Tyler Agee, Spencer Anderson, Tevin Barnett and Graphenreed took fourth in a time of 3:19.74 for five team points, and the women’s squad of Melissa McCluskey, Briana Aiken, Leah Hixon and Lindsay Schwartz took seventh (3:56.95) for two points.
 
Aiken also finished seventh in the women’s triple jump, leaping 12.16m for two team points.
 
Full meet results can be found here.
 
The Jaguars will travel next to Baton Rouge, La., for the LSU Last Chance, which will give South Alabama student-athletes one final opportunity to notch bid-worthy performances for the NCAA Indoor Championships to be held on Mar. 9-10 in Nampa, Idaho.
 
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