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Ben Baxter

Men's Track & Field Clayton Coffman | Director of Communications

Bison Men Earn Numerous PR’s in Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – There were several personal-bests delivered by the Oklahoma Baptist men's track and field team on Friday at Arkansas' John McDonnell Invitational.

The most significant of those was delivered by Korban Murphy. In the 800-meter run, Murphy took fifth place with an NCAA qualifying and personal-best mark of 1:49.55.

Austen McQueen also PR'd, this time in the 400-hurdles race when he finished in 55.66. He also earned 14th place in the race. Plus, Boone Bennett finished in 15th in the 110-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 14.44.

Over the 1,500, Damien Williams and Josh Kearse PR'd with times of 3:53.84 and 3:54.90, respectively. And then in the 800, Ira Gikas and Rylan Nofire earned their best times of that event with marks of 1:54.05 and 1:54.26, respectively.

Lastly, Ben Burchfield PR'd in the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.98.  
 
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Players Mentioned

Boone Bennett

Boone Bennett

Hurdles
Junior
Ben Burchfield

Ben Burchfield

Sprints
Sophomore
Josh Kearse

Josh Kearse

Distance
Junior
Austen McQueen

Austen McQueen

Hurdles
Sophomore
Ira Gikas

Ira Gikas

Distance
Freshman
Rylan Nofire

Rylan Nofire

Distance
Freshman
Damien Williams

Damien Williams

Distance
Junior
Korban  Murphy

Korban Murphy

Junior

Players Mentioned

Boone Bennett

Boone Bennett

Junior
Hurdles
Ben Burchfield

Ben Burchfield

Sophomore
Sprints
Josh Kearse

Josh Kearse

Junior
Distance
Austen McQueen

Austen McQueen

Sophomore
Hurdles
Ira Gikas

Ira Gikas

Freshman
Distance
Rylan Nofire

Rylan Nofire

Freshman
Distance
Damien Williams

Damien Williams

Junior
Distance
Korban  Murphy

Korban Murphy

Junior