Anteaters Head to Northridge for Red & Black Invitational

Friday, April 2

Northridge, Calif.

9:00 AM

UC Irvine

Red & Black Invitational

Photo courtesy of James Lee/UCLA Athletics

Photo by: James Lee/UCLA Athletics

Anteaters Head to Northridge for Red & Black Invitational

April 01, 2021 | Men's Track & Field

Red & Black Invitational
Date: Friday, April 2
Time: 9 a.m. (PDT)
Location: Matador Track & Field Complex - Northridge, Calif.
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IRVINE, Calif. - The UC Irvine men's track & field team will make its way to Northridge on Friday, April 2, for the Red & Black Invitational at the Matador Track & Field Complex.

Four Big West schools - UCI, CSU Bakersfield, UC Davis and host CSUN - are set to compete in the one-day meet. The men's events will begin with the javelin at 9 a.m., while action on the track gets underway a couple hours later with the 4x100 relay at 11:05 a.m. The Anteaters have 21 student-athletes entered in 16 events.

QUICK HITS
• UCI competed in one meet last season before the rest of the 2020 campaign was canceled due to the pandemic.
• Over a year later, the Anteaters made their return to competition at the Ben Brown Invitational (March 12-13, 2021).
• UC Irvine's roster is comprised of 16 returners and 15 newcomers.
• Three of the returners were All-Big West performers in 2019 - Seth Enochs, Jack Pickard and Kyle Tsu.
• Enochs and Tsu are two of UCI's team captains in 2021.
• The 'Eaters own six marks that rank among the top three in the conference this season.
• Tsu leads the group with two of those marks as he is first in the shot put (57-00.25) and third in the discus (174-08).
• His toss of 174-08 in the discus is a personal record and puts him at No. 8 in program history.

LAST TIME OUT
Thirteen 'Eaters competed at UCLA's Jim Bush Legends Invitational last Wednesday. On the track, Jarel Sayles was the runner-up in the 110m hurdles with a season-best 14.49. He was one-tenth of a second shy of cracking UCI's all-time top-10 in his second collegiate meet. Josh Farmer added a personal-record 15.02 to come in fifth. Seth Enochs (11.04) and Malcolm Overbaugh (48.96) also crossed the finish line with PRs in the 100m and 400m, respectively.

In the field events, Farmer claimed runner-up honors in the long jump with a wind-aided lifetime-best 23-01.75. Enochs wasn't far behind in third (23-00.75). Jack Pickard took second in the javelin (195-07), and Kyle Tsu notched a second-place finish in the discus (168-11). Tsu was also third in the shot put with a season-best 57-00.25.

The UC Irvine distance crew was in action on their home track last week, hosting the Anteater Distance Twilight on Thursday, March 25. Miles Duncan was the runner-up in the 800m, crossing the finish line in 1:56.29. Lukas Amare led a trio of UCI freshmen in the 1500m with a time of 4:03.88. Henry McClish was also the team's top finisher in the 5000m (15:46.40).

LONG JUMP LEADER
Senior Seth Enochs is the top returning long jumper from the 2019 Big West Championships where he was the runner-up with a wind-aided personal-record 25-04. He also came in 15th at the 2019 NCAA West Preliminary Round, and ranks fourth in school history with a wind-legal PR of 25-00.75. In 2021, Enochs established a season-best 23-11 at the Ben Brown Invitational (March 13), which ranks second in the conference and 36th in the West Region.

THROWING IT OUT THERE
Junior Kyle Tsu is currently tops in the Big West in the shot put (57-00.25) and third in the discus (174-08). Tsu's mark in the discus, which he notched at the season-opening Ben Brown Invitational, was a lifetime best and put him at No. 8 in school history. He already ranks third among UCI's all-time leaders with a personal-record 57-11.25 in the shot put. Tsu was a 2019 All-Big West performer and NCAA West Preliminary qualifier in the shot put.

BACK ON TRACK
Prior to the season opener, senior javelin thrower Jack Pickard was last in action at the NCAA West Prelims in May 2019. He advanced to the postseason two years ago with a school-record 221-00. Pickard didn't miss a beat after the long hiatus, opening the 2021 campaign with an individual victory in the javelin at the Ben Brown Invitational. He was the only competitor to surpass 200 feet, winning the event with a season-best 205-05, which currently ranks third in the Big West.

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
Freshman Jarel Sayles has had an impressive start to his collegiate career with a pair of runner-up finishes in the 110m hurdles. Last week at UCLA, Sayles established a season-best 14.49, which was just .02 seconds off his lifetime best, and one-tenth of a second shy of cracking UCI's all-time top-10. He enters Friday's meet ranked third in the Big West.