AUBURN, Ala. – The University of South Alabama’s Joey Torres matched the school-record hammer throw mark he set at the last year’s Sun Belt Conference Championships, where he threw 59.50m (195-02) for the event crown, to finish second collegiately and third overall on Friday to open the War Eagle Invitational in Auburn.
 
Torres also took third collegiately – fourth overall – in the discus throw on a mark of 51.61m (169-04).
 
Steven Nobles finished 10^th collegiately and 11^th overall in the hammer (53.01m/173-11), ahead of Adam Patterson, who took 12^th collegiately (51.56m/169-02).
 
Bobbie Williamson finished fourth collegiately and fifth overall in the women’s discus after throwing 45.13m (148-01), a meter-and-a-half short of the school record she set at last weekend’s USA Invitational. Williamson also finished eighth in the hammer throw (53.84m/177-00), one place behind Latifah Johnson, who threw 54.92m (180-02) for seventh.
 
Tori Lawson completed the women’s 5,000-meter course in 17:09.89, just one minute, 35 seconds short of the school record she set in the event at the FSU Relays earlier in the season, to record a second-place finish.
 
Lacy Barger was sixth in the women’s javelin on a 38.78m (127-03) throw.
 
Friday’s meet results can be found here.
 
The final day of competition at the War Eagle Invitational will began at 11 a.m. Saturday with the women’s pole vault. Full meet results will be posted to the Jaguar athletics website upon conclusion of the day’s events.
 
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