The records keep falling for junior Malcolm Taylor. But this time he has company. Taylor set both a meet record and a school record Thursday at the Paxton-Buckley-Loda Boys Invitational as he ran the 400-meter dash in 49.50 seconds. The Uni 4x800 team, which Taylor anchors, also set a meet record (8:38.04), while senior Frankie McFarland set a school mark in the shot put (46-4).

The stellar outdoor season of Malcolm Taylor continued on Monday as he led the Illineks to an impressive sixth-place finish at the 16-team St. Joseph-Ogden Boys Spartan Classic. The junior won the 400-meter dash with a season-best time of 50.04 seconds and anchored the winning 4x800 relay team. In field events, senior Frankie McFarland broke his own school record in the discus three times on his way to a third-place finish.

Junior Malcolm Taylor continued to have a brilliant outdoor season, beating Unity state finalist Zebo Zebe in the 800 and anchoring the 4x800 relay team's comfortable win over St. Joseph-Ogden at Friday's Unity Boys Invitational. Field star Frankie McFarland placed second in the shot put and fifth in the discus throw as Uni finished eighth out of 13 teams overall.

Last week at St. Joseph-Ogden, senior Malcolm Taylor dazzled spectators with a state-caliber performance in the 400-meter dash. This week at Paxton-Buckley-Loda, he quadrupled the distance and still came out on top, eclipsing his old cross-country rival from PBL, Felix Cardoso, by almost 11 seconds to win the 3,200 run. Taylor's performance was one of several Uni highlights at Tuesday's PBL coed meet.

Led by Malcolm Taylor's state-caliber performance in the 400-meter dash, the Uni girls and boys track teams came away from their first coed outdoor meet of the year with an impressive number of first-place finishes Thursday at St. Joseph-Ogden High School. Two days later, Uni athletes came up big again at the Tuscola freshman-sophomore girls meet.

The Illineks came up big at the Class A state indoor meet Friday in Bloomington, led by the second-place boys 4x800-meter relay team. Ruthie Welch finished third in the 800 run, and sprinter Tuli Bera took sixth in the 55 dash. Friday's meet was open only to the top track and field athletes in Class A.