LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Northwest Missouri State University track and field teams put a cap on their trip to the West Coast with a pair of school-record breaking performances at the Beach Invitational.

Head coach Brandon Masters summed up the performances this weekend by the Bearcats in California.

"We had a fantastic showing for the group out here with four meets in four days," Masters said. "We had a ton of personal bests, provisional qualifiers and school records. I'm so proud of our folks in preparing for each event and each day with professionalism. Plus, we had a blast together."
 
Northwest's 4x100 relay men's team of Enrico Cavagna, Joel Dos Santos, Marcus Klein and Prince Griffin took down a 14-year-old outdoor school record at the Beach Invitational. The foursome breezed to a time of 40.78, bettering the old mark of 40.8 set by Kendall Wright, John Miles, Sheldon Cook and E.J. Falkner on May 10, 2008. The Bearcat 4x100 relay placed fourth in the meet, trailing only squads from North Texas (40.45), South Dakota (40.62) and Air Force (40.74). The time of 40.78 is an NCAA provisional qualifying mark and ranks as the No. 22 time in Division II this season.
 
Sarah Prickett put her name atop the women's 100-meter hurdles school record with a clocking of 13.90. Prickett's time ranks as the 10th-best mark in Division II this spring. Prickett's performance bounced Jordan's Hammond time of 13.99 set on May 5, 2019, from the top of the Bearcat outdoor chart. Ally Hammond also competed in the meet and put forth a time of 14.53 on the day.
 
Enrico Cavagna lit up the men's 200-meter race with a clocking of 21.34. Cavagna placed fifth in the event. His time ties for the 10th-best time in Northwest's men's outdoor history and goes down as a personal-best for Cavagna. Cavagna also notched a ninth-place finish in the men's 100-meter dash. Cavagna captured a time of 10.72.
 
Prince Griffin secured a personal-best in the men's 200-meter dash (21.65). Griffin placed 14th in the event.
 
The Bearcat women's 4x100 relay squad of Ally Hammond, Lexie Gilbert, Chloe Saenz and Kyah Luhring ran the fifth-best time (46.97) in school history. The Bearcat quartet placed 11th in the event.
 
Chloe Saenz earned the seventh-best women's 400-meter dash time (56.94) in Bearcat outdoor history.
 
Joel Dos Santos placed 10th overall in the men's long jump with a leap of 7.32m (24'¼"), while teammate Marcus Klein took 18th with a mark of 7.04m (23'1¾").
 
Bailey Blake took 19th in the women's 800-meter run with a time of 2:12.78.
 
Lexie Gilbert ran a personal-best time of 25.19 in the women's 200-meter dash.