Griffith’s win in 3,000 meters paces Hogs’ runner-up finish at SEC Indoor meet

FAYETTEVILLE — Led by Cameron Griffith’s SEC title in the 3,000-meters, Arkansas finished runner-up at the 2019 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships scoring 88 points over the two-day competition at Randal Tyson Indoor Track Center.

Coming off a day that saw Gilbert Boit bring home an SEC title in the 5,000-meters, Arkansas hit the track looking for points to put towards the team total.

Cameron Griffith struck paydirt first for the Razorbacks as the senior collected a silver medal in the final of the Mile running 4:02.05 in a close finish as Ole Miss’ Waleed Sulman was able to get the lean for the win besting Griffith by a mere .03 seconds. Ethan Moehn scored in the mile final as well finishing seventh in 4:06.70.

Griffith would return later in the meet to avenge his loss and defend his SEC title at 3,000-meters from last season as he outkicked Alabama’s Gilbert Kigen running 8:02.81 for the win. Gilbert Boit was close behind in fourth-place while Austen Dalquist rounded out scoring for Arkansas in the event with a seventh-place finish.

Laquan Nairn turned in a personal-best mark in the triple jump, earning a third-place finish after leaping out to a distance of 16.03m (52-7.25).

The 4×400-meter relay of Travean Caldwell, Roy Ejiakuekwu, Hunter Woodhall and John Winn raced to a third-place finish running a season-best time of 3:05.71 led by Woodhall’s split of 45.38 that was the second-fastest of any leg by any team in the final.

Hunter Woodhall and Jalen Brown represented the Hogs in the final of the men’s 400-meters finishing seventh and eighth.

Carl Elliot III finished seventh in the 60-meter hurdles, running 7.88 seconds.

Kieran Taylor turned in a sixth-place finish in the 800-meters running 1:50.89.

Roy Ejiakuekwu finished seventh in the 200-meters running 21.06.

With the SEC Championships in the books, Arkansas looks to the NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala. where the men and women who finished in the top-16 of individual events, as well as the top-12 relays from each gender on the final descending order list, will advance.