TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Drake University track and field team's men's sprinters collected a total of 57 points with three titles to lead the Bulldogs on the final day of the Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championship.
 
Sophomore Kundai Maguranyanga led an outstanding day for the men's sprinters as he swept the men's 100 and 200 meters to become the first Bulldog to do so since 1988 and ran the anchor leg on the winning 4x100-meter relay team. The two titles came after he won the 60 and 200 meters during the indoor season to give him four individual MVC titles this year.
 
Those performances helped the men's team finish fifth in the team standings with 87.25 points, the program's highest point total since 2005. UNI won the men's title with 183.25 points.
 
Maguranyanga won the 100 meters in 10.48 to be the first Bulldog to win the event since 2007 and just the fourth to do so in the last six decades. He was the first of four Bulldogs to score in the event as Aobakwe Malau was third in 10.65, Victor Peka was fourth in 10.68 and Aaron Chier took sixth in 10.70.
 
Later in the afternoon, Maguranyanga blizted past the field in the 200 meters to win in 21.31 followed by Peka in second (21.70) and Malau in fourth (21.70).
 
Malau, Peka, Chier, Maguranyanga opened the day by winning the 4x100-meter relay in 40.50.
 
By winning two events and leading another to a title, Maguranyanga was named the Championship's Most Valuable Athlete. He is the first Bulldog to earn the award during the outdoor season in the award's 19-year history.
 
The Bulldogs also collected a title in the men's triple jump as Cloud Masibhera won the competition on his next to last jump with a leap of 49-1 (14.96m).
 
The men's team also got points in the 400-meter hurdles as Angelo Romagna and Simon Perrotin turned in personal bests to finish fifth and seventh, respectively.
 
The women's team's day on the track was highlighted by Victoria Coombe overcoming an early stumble to rally back and take fourth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:02.63. Coombe also teamed up with Sophia Jackson, Keaton Kester and Ellie Mendlik to take sixth in the 4x100-meter relay in 49.25
 
Earlier in the day, a pair of fifth-place finishes in the distance events garnered more points for the Bulldogs. Tess Misgen turned in a fifth-place showing in the 1,500 meters in 4:34.39 followed by a personal best from Meghan Kearney in 2:12.46 to take fifth in the 800 meters.
 
The field events also generated points for the women's team again with school record holder Christina LeMunyon taking sixth in the pole vault with a clearance of 11-1.75 (3.40m).
 
Drake's women's team finished seventh in the team standings with Illinois State winning the women's title.
 
The Bulldogs travel to Sacramento, Calif., next for the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds May 23-25.
 
2019 MVC Outdoor Track & Field Championship
Men's Team Standings
1. Northern Iowa, 183.25     
2. Illinois State, 131.25
3. Indiana State, 129.25     
4. Southern Illinois, 125.50
5. Drake, 87.25     
6. Loyola (Ill.), 74
7. Bradley, 70        
8. Valparaiso, 11.50
9. Evansville, 6 
 
Women's Team Standings
1. Illinois State, 191        
2. Southern Illinois, 176      
3. Indiana State, 132.50     
4. Northern Iowa, 100.50   
5. Missouri State, 75        
6. Loyola (Ill.), 70      
7. Drake, 34
8. Bradley, 31      
9. Valparaiso, 4.50
10. Evansville, 3.50 
 
Individual Drake Men's Results
100 Meters
1. Kundai Maguranyanga, 10.48
3. Aobakwe Malau, 10.65
4. Victor Peka, 10.68
6. Aaron Chier, 10.70
 
200 Meters
1. Kundai Maguranyanga, 21.31
2. Victor Peka, 21.70
4. Aobakwe Malau, 21.70
 
1,500 Meters
7. Matt Cozine, 3:56.01
9. Kevin Kelly, 3:57.52
11. Xavier Lechleitner, 4:02.32
 
400-Meter Hurdles
5. Angelo Romagna, 54.53 - PR
7. Simon Perrotin, 56.89 - PR
 
4x100-Meter Relay
1. Malau, Peka, Chier, Maguranyanga, 40.50
 
4x400-Meter Relay
8. Chier, Lechleitner, Enzugusi, Cozine, 3:32.37
 
Triple Jump
1. Cloud Masibhera, 49-1 (14.96m)



Individual Drake Women's Results
800 Meters
5. Meghan Kearney, 2:12.46 
 
1,500 Meters
5. Tess Misgen, 4:34.39
 
5,000 Meters
11. Olivia Rogers, 17:20.89
19. Rachel Selva, 17:44.35
22. MyKaela Cole, 18:03.04
 
400-Meter Hurdles
4. Victoria Coombe, 1:02.63
 
4x100-Meter Relay
6. Jackson, Coombe, Kester, Mendlik, 49.25
 
4x400-Meter Relay
7. Kearney, Coombe, Kester, Misgen, 3:59.47
 
Pole Vault
6. Christina LeMunyon, 11-1.75 (3.40m)
 
Discus 
9. Lexie Chapman, 148-8 (45.32m)
14. Katelyn Williams, 134-3 (40.93m)