MARYVILLE, Mo.– Last week, Claire McCune set a facility record in the 3,000-meter run at Northwest Missouri State, and this weekend, the senior from Springfield topped that performance and won the event for the second week in a row.
 
The Panthers returned to Maryville, Missouri, for the Bearcat Invitational indoor track & field meet, and Drury broke a pair of team records on Saturday.
 
McCune ran 10 seconds faster than last week in the 3,000-meter run completing the event in 9:40.60. The New Covenant Academy product won the race by 21 seconds and broke the facility record at Hughes Fieldhouse for the second week in a row. McCune also broke Drury's record in the event, and her time is a provisional qualifying time for the NCAA-II national indoor track & field meet.
 
In other highlights from Saturday's meet, freshman Ashley Childers was sixth among 56 runners in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.89. Jacy Rule, a freshman from Collinsville, Oklahoma, ran the fourth-best 400-meter time in program history and came in 13^th among 19 runners with a time of 1:02.71.
 
Valerie Daehler set a program record for the Panthers in the high jump. The freshman from Rockford, Illinois, posted a jump of 1.49 meters, topping a seven-year-old mark. Daehler finished 11^th in the event. She returned to finish sixth in the triple jump, and her leap of 19.58 ranks second in Drury history.
 
In men's track & field, Drury's Luke Kerr was sixth in the 60-meter hurdles. Kerr, a freshman from Nixa, posted a time of 9.26, the third-fastest time in Panthers history.
 
John Schupbach came in third on Saturday in the triple jump. The junior from Monett, Missouri, registered a jump of 12.49 meters.
 
Both Panthers teams compete again next Saturday in the Ichabod Invitational hosted by Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
 
 
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