TOPEKA, Kan. (Jan. 15, 2022) – Sprinter Bryah Davis and thrower Leah Oguntope each posted an event runner-up finish on Saturday in the Washburn Rust Buster track and field meet at the Washburn Indoor Athletic Facility.

Davis, a sophomore from Cedar Hill, Texas, ran a time of 25.70 seconds to finish second among 35 runners in the 200 meters.

In the 60 meters, she joined teammate Aysha Robinson in qualifying for the eight-woman final. Robinson, a junior from Round Rock, Texas, finished third a career-best time of 7.73 seconds while Davis took fifth in 7.75 seconds.

On her last of six throws in the weight throw, Oguntope, a sophomore from Houston, posted a career-best mark of 48 feet, 1¾ inches (14.67 meters) to place second in a field of 21 women. Her teammate, sophomore Taelor Brown of Pawnee, Okla., finished seventh with a throw of 43 feet, 1 inch (13.13 meters.)

Brown also took fifth among 21 throwers in the shot put with a top effort of 34 feet, 8¼ inches (10.57 meters). In the long jump, OC junior Morgan Ray of Edmond, Okla., finished seventh among 18 women with a mark of 16 feet, 7¾ inches (5.07 meters).

The Eagles had three runners finish 9-10-11 among 31 competitors in the mile, all less than a second apart – senior Rebeca Morales of Riverside, Calif. (5:23.78), junior Emma Davison of Mason City, Iowa (5:23.98) and junior Kenya Bailey of Ponca City, Okla. (5:24.26). For Morales and Bailey, the times were a career-best at that distance.

Payton Duesing, a junior from Lantana, Texas, took ninth in a 19-woman field in the 600 yards with a time of 1:33.36. The quartet of Morales, Duesing, Bailey and Davison gave OC a sixth-place finish (among nine team) in the 4x400-meter relay in 4:21.44.

The Eagles will compete next week in two meets – on Friday in Pittsburg State's Rumble in the Jungle Invitational at the Robert W. Plaster Center in Pittsburg, Kan., and on Saturday in the University of Oklahoma's J.D. Martin Invitational at the Mosier Indoor Facility in Norman, Okla.