To add to a team-total nine titles, SIU junior jumper Kenya Culmer and freshman sprinter Nikolai Gall took two titles each in Saturday’s Joey Haines Invitational meet.

The Salukis took nine events and several top-five finishes during the meet, which was hosted by Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Gall used his speed in the 400-meter race to win two titles. He also took the individual 400-meter dash event with a time of 47.82 seconds. Gall then started the Salukis off in the 4×400-meter relay along with sophomore Blake Green, freshman Kemar Jones and senior Christopher Nightengale to take the event clocked at 3:15.74.

Senior J.C. Lambert continued his 2013 campaign with his third consecutive hammer-throw win. Arkansas State senior Chris Nicasio led with a distance of 62.70 meters going into the final round, but Lambert maintained his composure and tossed the hammer 63.29 meters to claim the competition.

For the women, junior hurdler Laquitsha Bejoile-Hayes ran her way into the Saluki record book as she won the 100-meter hurdles with a 14.01 final run. She entered the meet seeded fourth at 14.53, but her hurdle time Saturday ranked her sixth in the event’s Saluki history.

The hurdles success continued when SIU senior Tess Shubert won the 400-meter hurdles race for the second consecutive week. Shubert ran 1:00.59 in the finals, which beat second-place sophomore Kita Alvares of St. Louis University by .18 seconds.

Culmer took a pair of titles in both the high-jump and triple-jump competitions. Culmer leapt to 1.70 meters during the high jump. This distance was a tenth of a meter shorter than her previous height. Culmer came into the triple jump as the clear favorite when she was seeded more than a meter longer than any other competitor, and she posted a distance of 12.32 meters in her fourth jump, which paced her to claim the competition’s title.

Former SIU track and field competitor Gwen Berry won the women’s hammer throw as a Nike team member Saturday. Berry posted a 69.90-meter final throw, which was on the cusp of her 70.00-meter seed distance. Senior thrower Kim Fortney followed Berry in second place with a 63.75-meter final throw.

Fortney also took a Saluki title in the women’s shot-put competition. She posted a 15.77-meter second preliminary throw to take the lead, and it stood as the farthest throw even after the finals.

Including Berry’s two titles, the Salukis claimed more wins than any other team with titles in 11 of the competition’s 38 events.

SIU will look to continue its success when the teams travel to Oxford, Miss., Saturday to compete in the University of Mississippi’s Ole Miss Invitational.