The Angelo State men's and women's track & field teams closed out the Texas Relays Saturday with more impressive performances at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.

Wednesday's Recap
Thursday's Recap
Friday's Recap

Senior Chrystal Ruiz opened the day with a fifth-place finish in the finals of the 400-meter hurdles, recording the third-best time in the event in school history. Ruiz' personal-best time of 59.52 automatically qualified her for next month's NCAA Division II National Championships in the event. In the men's 400 hurdles finals, sophomore Trenton Dalton placed fourth with a time of 52.57 and junior Brian Holik placed fifth in a time of 52.69, both provisionally qualifying for the national meet in the event.

The Rams' 4x100-meter relay squad placed sixth in the college division as the foursome of senior James Howell, junior Ryan Adkins, sophomore Nick Smith and freshman Isidro Garcia recorded a time of 41.39 in the event.  Smith later placed sixth and provisionally qualified in the 100-meter dash with a season-best time of 10.58.

Later Saturday, both the men's and women's 4x400-meter relay teams took center stage. The Rams placed second in the college division as the foursome of Howell, junior Terence Holland, Holik and Garcia posted a season-best time of 3:09.62, automatically qualifying for the national meet. And in ASU's final race of the event, the senior quartet of Ruiz, Celethia Byrd, Aisha Adams and Andria Nussey placed eighth in the university/college division Saturday with a new school-record time of 3:40.29, improving on the Rambelles' previous automatic-qualifying mark set in the event prelims Friday.

The Rams and Rambelles return to action next week when ASU hosts the 38th Annual ASU/David Noble Relays at the LeGrand Sports Complex. The multi-event take place Apr. 8-9 with the open meet taking place Saturday, Apr. 10.