PUEBLO, Colo.— Teo Casados won the 100 meters in an NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying time as one of 35 top-10 finishes that Colorado Mesa University Maverick track & field athletes turned in during a solid, but wind-filled day of action in the Dr. Dan Caprioglio Invitational on Saturday here at the CSU Pueblo ThunderBowl.
 
Casados won the 100 in a wind-aided time of 10.42 seconds, which puts him eighth on the current NCAA Division II performance list with the altitude-adjusted mark of 10.45.  He also led the Mavericks in the 200, placing fifth in in 21.74 seconds run with an illegal tailwind.
 
Marik Cummings, Amaris Mora and Quentin Hartel also managed top-10 finishes in the sprints as Cummings took fourth in the 100 with a time of 10.48 seconds in the same heat as Casados while Mora took ninth overall at 10.66 seconds in the second heat.  Mora also took sixth in the 200 at 21.79 with a massive 9.0-meter-per-second wind at his back, more than twice the legal national qualifying limit, while Quentin Hartel finished tenth with a time of 22.03 seconds in the same heat.
 
In the 110-meter hurdles, freshman Aidan Brownell placed third in 14.78 seconds with a strong wind at his back while Logan Hafey took seventh to move up three spots to seventh in program history with a wind-legal time of 15.36 seconds.  Trevor Kendall also finished ninth in 15.42 seconds while running in Brownell's heat.
 
Brownell also posted a time of 56.36 seconds in the 400 hurdles to place eighth while debuting in the No. 9 spot of Maverick history.
 
Dylan Campbell led a group of seven Mavericks in the 800 meters, placing eighth in 1:58.23 while John McGill took tenth in 2:00.01.
 
Meanwhile, Chase Brown finished third in the 5,000 meters with a time of 15:59.72.
 
In the field, Hayden Moreno placed third in the long jump with a mark of 6.81 meters (22 feet, 4 ¼ inches) while Garrett Searls finished fifth in the pole vault with a clearance of 4.40 meters (14-5.25), just a centimeter off his outdoor personal best of 4.41 meters.
 
The distance runners led the Maverick women as Autumn McQuitty, Kate Linstedt and Autumn McCorkel, all finished in the top five of the 5,000 meters near the end of the day.  McQuitty took second in 18:34.90 and moves into the ninth spot on the Mavs' all-time performers list.  Linstedt finished fourth in 19:14.44 while McCorkel took fifth in 19:43.72.
 
McQuitty was also the third of three Maverick women who moved into or up on the Mavs' all-time list in the 1,500 meters. Brooke Miller led that group, finishing fifth in 4:38.28 and moved up three spots to fourth on the all-time list.  Megan Hodges ran to a time of 4:43.30 and now ranks sixth in CMU history while McQuitty posted a time of 4:48.40, a nearly 10-second improvement over her former personal best.  She now ranks eighth in CMU history.
 
The Mavs had two top-10 finishers in the 100 meters as freshman Kammi Merritt made her collegiate debut in that discipline with a seventh place finish and time of 12.32 seconds.  Serenity Burnett-Perry also took ninth in 12.37.
 
Merritt also led a host of CMU women in the 200, taking fifth in 25.34 seconds while Hannah Schissler took tenth in 25.69.
 
In the 400 meters, Lexie Williams finished eighth in 59.30 seconds while Sophie Lindauer also broke the 60-second mark, taking ninth in 59.74 seconds.  Emma Dikken also cracked the top-10 in 1:00.09.
 
Elsewhere, Kaitlyn Pearson took fifth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.73 seconds and a +5.3 wind reading.  Fellow freshman Atahlia Mills finished eighth overall with a time of 14.78 in the same heat.
 
In the high jump, Hope Matteson and Kaelea Gibson both cleared 1.55 meters (5-1) as Matteson finished third while Gibson took fifth.
 
In the long jump, Lily Nieslanik scored a seventh place finish with a leap of 5.37 meters (17-7.5) while Pearson was right behind in eighth, thanks to mark of 5.32 meters (17-5.5).
 
The Maverick throwers also fared well as Kaiya Graves placed sixth in the discus throw with a mark of 41.23 meters (135-3) while Augustine Hancock took eighth with a throw of 40.51 meters (132-11).
 
The Mavericks will return here next weekend as well for CSU Pueblo's Chuck Hearing Invitational.