By KYLE ROBERTS

Sports Writer

Tech's track teams had another solid meet on April 1-3 at the 77th annual Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Meyers Stadium in Austin, Texas, by breaking four school records and posting seven regional qualifying marks.

"We had a great meet," head coach Gary Stanley said. "We had big performances this weekend."

The Techsters broke school records in the 400-meter hurdles, the triple jump, the 400-meter relay and the 800-meter relay.

Western Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week Doria Appleberry broke her own school record for the third time this season in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 58.74 seconds to finish fifth.

Ayanna Alexander broke a school record in her first triple jump since the NCAA indoor championships, by registering a mark of 42 feet, 11 3/4 inches.

Both were regional qualifying marks.

Coach Stanley was very pleased with the women's performances.

"The highlight of the meet for us was the women's 4x100-meter relays and 4x200-meter relays," Stanley said.

"The times for those relays should be extremely high on the national list."

The 4x100 team, consisting of Appleberry, Latonia Wilson, Crystle Church and Shandra Freeman finished in fourth place with a time of 44.59.

The 4x200 team of Appleberry, Church, Freeman and Nina Gilbert finished third with a time of 1:34.54.

"The competition at this meet is always incredibly stout," Stanley said.

"There are schools from all over the country with good programs that come to compete at the Texas Relays. It's not everyday Tech beats teams like USC or Miami.

"And that's what we want. We want to go to the big meets and be able to compete like we did this past weekend," Stanley said.

The 4x400 team came into the event ranked No. 5 in the nation, but an accident in the final leg of the the race caused the baton to fall. As a result, the Techsters finished in ninth place with a time of 3:37.67.

"The 4x400 team was running great but dropped the stick in the last leg," Stanley said.

"That was too bad because we were up in the hunt until that point."