Colbert wins discus at Sea Ray Relays

Brandon Colbert highlighted Southeast Missouri State's track and field performances during the University of Tennessee's Sea Ray Relays held over the weekend.

Colbert won the discus with a throw of 173 feet, 7 inches.

Josh Uchtman finished fourth in the discus with a career-best 164-1 and also placed fourth in the shot put (52-3 1/4).

Juli Koenegstein was the top Redhawks runner as she placed fifth in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10 minutes, 8.44 seconds.

Josh Sutton was seventh in the high jump (6-4 3/4).

Southeast graduate assistant coach John Berry finished fifth in the open long jump (23-5 1/4).

Former Southeast All-American Miles Smith, who now is competing professionally, was fourth in the 400 meters (47.38).

Also over the weekend, Southeast's Richard Martin competed at the SIU-Edwardsville Cougar Classic. He placed third in both the javelin (168-7) and shot put (47-1).

Many of Southeast's athletes will compete Thursday and Friday at the Mt. Sac Relays on the campus of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif., with some other squad members competing in a meet at Memphis on Saturday.

The Mt. Sac Relays has more than 8,000 entries each year and features some of the world's top athletes. There will be schools from all over the nation as well as unattached athletes from the U.S., England, Japan and Australia.

"This is a great chance for our top athletes to compete against the nation's best," Southeast coach Eric Crumpecker said. "This is one of the most prestigious meets in the country and we were honored to have 14 of our athletes selected to compete."