GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Getting out a big red pen.
 
That is exactly what the Colorado Mesa University Maverick men's track and field team did on Sunday as they made serious changes at the top of and throughout their top-10 all-time performer charts on Sunday.  Elijah Williams led the way, breaking one of the oldest school-records a he took the 200-meter dash as one of a dozen CMU event wins at the Maverick Sun Classic.
 
Those efforts helped the nation's 15^th-ranked Mavericks to a team score of 143 points as they edged Western Colorado (135) for the team title.  Colorado Christian was third with 33 team points.
 
Williams blazed to a time of 21.56 seconds in his win as he and Tony Torres, who set a NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying time in the 800 meters, and freshman hurdler Zayden Davis all set track records here at the new on-campus CMU Track & Field Complex, which played host to a meet for the third time in four weekends in nearly ideal weather conditions that mimicked the meet's namesake.
 
Torres dominated his event in 1:51.38 and now ranks 14th nationally and second in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference with his altitude-adjusted mark of 1:50.84.
 
Williams, who took down the nearly 8-year old school record of 21.61 seconds held by Jordan Riggins since 2013, is sixth in the conference with his converted time of 21.63. 
 
Meanwhile, Torres was one of several Mavericks who put up the second best marks in CMU history in the various events.
 
Williams anchored the Mavericks' 4x100-meter relay team to a winning time of 41.60 seconds, second fastest in program history.  Jeremiah Wilson, Beau Thornton and Eliot Ward ran the earlier legs.
 
Torres, who set 1,500 and 5,000-meter school records as the previous two home meets, then took over the No. 2 spot on the Mavs' 800-meter charts, with his time, second only to now assistant coach Shane Niksic's mark of 1:50.99 from 2015.  Torres also broke the track record of 1:52.96, which had been set on Mar. 27 by Westminster's Aiden Urban.
 
Throwers Hayden Riley and Brock Murphy also posted No. 2 ranking marks in CMU history.  Riley won the shot put with a heave of 15.94 meters (52 feet, 3 ¾ inches) after Murphy had taken the hammer throw after posting a distance of 55.11 meters (180-10).  Riley also won the discus with a toss of 45.47 meters (149-2).
 
The Mavs also swept the hurdling events as Davis won the 110-meter in his facility-record setting time of 14.84 seconds while Nathan Hanson was second in 14.88.  They both improved their No. 3 and 4 positions in CMU history with those marks.
 
Elsewhere, the Mavericks received distance running wins from Jerod Kuhn in the 10,000 meters, the first race of the day, and Triston Charles in the 1,500 meters.  Kuhn finished in 32:10.18 and now ranks seventh in CMU history.  Charles followed up the relay win to take his event in 4:02.97 to move into the No. 5 spot in program history.
 
Peter Martin also made his 3,000-meter steeplechase debut in 10:14.35 to finish third and rank fourth in program history.
 
Elsewhere, Casey McDaniel also won the 400-meter hurdles for the second straight home meet in 55.72 seconds while the Mavericks also won two jumping events.  Spencer Purnell won the long jump with a leap of 7.01 meters (23-0) to rank fourth in program history while Justin Thompson cleared 2.01 meters (6-7) to take the high jump victory on a tie-breaker.
 
Other CMU top 10 performance efforts included:

• Austin Reese took second in the 400 meters with a time of 49.85 seconds to move into a tie for sixth place in CMU history.
• Beau Thornton finished a close second in the 100 meters with a time of 10.66 seconds, the second fastest all-conditions mark in CMU history.  However, that was done with a 2.7-meter-per-second tail-wind.  Wilson (10.80) and Kade Christensen (10.88) also set wind-aided personal-bests.
• Eliot Ward moved into the CMU top 10 in the 200 as well as he finished sixth in 22.33 seconds to move in to a tie for ninth in program history.
• Murphy placed third in the shot put with a mark of 13.94 meters (45-9) and now ranks sixth in program history for that discipline.