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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Four Colonels won events while three hurdlers, junior Lutisha Bowen, sophomore DanHeisha Harding and senior Jasmyn Norris, ran the top three times in the Ohio Valley Conference in the women’s 60-meter hurdles as the Eastern Kentucky University track and field team competed at the Middle Tennessee State Invitational on Saturday.

Bowen, Harding and Norris, who already held the top three spots in the conference in the 60-meter hurdles, all improved on their times on Saturday as Bowen finished second in the women’s 55-meter hurdles with a converted OVC-best time of 8.61, Harding ran a converted 8.71 in the preliminaries and Norris ran a converted 8.94 in the preliminaries.

Sophomore Bianca Forbes won the women’s 400 meters for the second consecutive year at the meet. The Toronto native ran a 57.20, outpacing her nearest competitor, Middle Tennessee’s Amber Jackson, by less than a second. Forbes won the women’s 400 meters as a freshman at Middle Tennessee with a then-personal best time of 56.61. Junior Danielle Mason, meanwhile, won the women’s mile with a personal best time of 5:13.67.

On the men’s side, senior Kristopher Hawkins won the men’s 400 meters with a time of 49.98 while freshman Ole Hesselbjerg won the men’s mile with a time of 4:22.12.

Another notable performance for the women’s team came from sophomore Shannon Hooper, who finished fourth in the women’s weight throw with a personal best toss of 54-1.75. Hooper’s mark is currently the second longest throw in the OVC.

For the men’s team, two Colonels from the southern hemisphere also turned in noteworthy performances as sophomore Daniel Jones, from New Zealand, and junior Alex Dreyer, from Australia, ran the second and third fastest times in the OVC in the men’s 5,000 meters. Jones finished fifth with a personal best time of 5:13.69 while Dreyer placed seventh with a time of 15:19.52.

Several of the Colonels’ top distance runners did not compete at the event as they prepare to travel to Seattle for the Washington Husky Indoor Open to be held Feb. 9-13.

The rest of the EKU track and field team will return at the Indiana Hoosier Hills Open on Feb. 11