Track and Field | 5/1/2019 9:15:00 PM

LYNCHBURG, Va.  As the 2019 outdoor track & field season winds toward the national championship meet, athletes attend 'last chance' meets in hopes of moving up the national performance list in their respective events.

Wednesday at Lynchburg University, four Methodist University runners gave it their bests at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier.

Jeremy Prichard contested both hurdle events, the 110-meter and the 400-meter hurdles, posting a personal best -- twice -- in the 110m with a fifth-place time of 14.82 seconds.

His original time in the event during the preliminary heats qualified Prichard for the event final, in which he posted the same time.

Late in the event schedule Prichard raced the longer hurdles distance, winning the event with a time, 53.40 seconds, that was just 14/100ths of a second off his season best (53.26), a mark that is currently the sixth fastest time for Division III men in the event.

Another Monarch with a nationally-ranked time, Erran Greene, also raced once around the oval at the Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex, but without the encumbrances of the hurdles.

Greene has the 24th-ranked time (48.54) in the 400m dash and Wednesday nearly eclipsed that time, finishing third at Liberty with a time of 48.94.

Two times around the circuit was Stephen Dukes' task as he tried to better his season best (2 minutes, 0.69 seconds) in the 800m run, but he, too, fell 10ths of seconds short of a new PR, finishing 31st with a clocking of 2:00.82.

Jimlyn Laurent was the lone women's representative at the meet from Methodist, competing in the two short sprints, the 100 and 200m dashes.

The senior posted a time of 12.44 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 100, finishing 11th and just 0.28 seconds away from qualifying for the championship heat later in the meet.

Laurent registered a time of 26.48 seconds in the 200 to end her event list with a 20th-place finish.

The final meet on the Methodist regular-season schedule is at the University of Mount Olive's NCAA Last Chance Qualifier on Sunday, May 12.

The season concludes in Geneva, Ohio, at the 2019 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships that begin on May 23 and continue through May 25.