LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The University of Colorado Colorado Springs track & field team started their California trip on Thursday evening at the Cal State LA Twilight Open and Bryan Clay Invitational with a pair of national qualifying marks and a personal best performance. 
 
INSIDE THE CAL STATE LA TWILIGHT OPEN
Location: CSULA Jesse Owens Track | Los Angeles, Calif.
 
INSIDE THE BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL
Location: APU Cougar Athletic Stadium | Azusa, Calif.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED | CAL STATE LA TWILIGHT OPEN

• Junior Melissa Moreni started the afternoon off for the Mountain Lions in the women's 100m hurdles as she posted a first-place finish in the field of 19 runners with a time of 13.77s. Moreni's mark sits just five-hundredths of a second off her season-best national qualifying mark and was the fastest in the competition by more than three-tenths of a second.
• Also competing at the Jesse Owens Track on Thursday evening was redshirt junior Dillon Andrews, who posted a second-place finish in the men's 400m hurdles with a time of 54.79s.

HOW IT HAPPENED | BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL

• Redshirt freshman Molly Breuer was the first Mountain Lion in action at the Bryan Clay Invitational as she notched a personal best time of 11:11.88 in the 3000m Steeplechase to take the ninth position in her heat.
• Closing out the night in heat one of the men's 10,000m invite, redshirt senior Afewerki Zeru clocked a national qualifying time of 29:32.59 to finish 31^st in his heat, which consisted of a handful of professional runners and 32 Division I competitors. Zeru's time comes up just shy of his personal best and school record time of 28:56.20 that he established last season at the Stanford Invitational, however, it currently ranks inside the top-five marks in the nation for the event this outdoor season.

BEYOND THE RESULTS

• Zeru now holds a pair of top-five ranked national qualifying marks this outdoor season as he also currently sits No. 2 on the NCAA Division II Performance List for the 5,000m race with his season-best time of 13:51.47.

UP NEXT

• The Mountain Lions are back in action tomorrow at the Bryan Clay Invitational as graduate student Marcus Graham will start things off in the men's 10,000m open race, followed by Kate Hedlund in the women's 800m invite and Anna Fauske in the women's 5,000m open race.

 
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As a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs competes in 16 varsity sports in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics.