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| June
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2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Release by Mike Marzolf |
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| Williams, Davis win gold at USA Championships; Bailey, Lee win
in Jamaica The top three places in each event qualify to compete in the Wolrd Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Paris from Aug. 23-31. Williams, who still holds the Barton County record in the 100m at 10.03 set in 1998, was impressive the entire event. Williams won his 1st round heat with the 2nd fastest overall time, won his semifinal heat with the fastest time, then captured the gold, defeating world record holder Tim Montgomery in their first head-to-head battle of the weekend. Williams won the event with a 10.11 to Montgomery’s 10.15. Jon Drummond was 3rd at 10.18. Another former Cougars, Aaron Armstrong, took 8th. The USA Outdoor title is the first for Williams, who had a runner-up finish in 2001. Williams was also slated to run in the 200m, but dropped out prior to the semifinals. Erick Wilson, who just won the 100m and 200m at the 2003 NJCAA Championships, did make the finals of the 200m, taking 7th place. Davis continued to show he is one of the best jumpers in the United States by taking 1st in the long jump and 2nd in the triple jump. Davis actually tied for the gold medal in the long jump with Dwight Phillips. Davis jumped 27-0.5 on his 2nd jump of the prelims. That mark was tied by Phillips on his final jump on the day. John Moffitt, a 2002 graduate of Barton, took 8th. It was the first long jump title for Davis at the USA Outdoor Championships. Davis still holds the long jump record at Barton County at 26-9 3/4 set in 2000 and is 3rd on the triple jump list at 56-0.5. Davis, who won the triple jump USA Outdoor Championships last year, took 2nd this year, missing out on gold by just more than one inch. Davis and Kenta Bell hooked up a duel that saw Davis take an early lead only to see Bell grab it away before the finals. On the next-to-last jump in the finals, Davis retook the lead with a leap of 57-7. Bell, who jumped immediately behind Davis, bested that on the very next jump, going 57-8.5 to win the gold. Third place also went to a former Cougar as Tim Rusan won the bronze with a jump of 56-4.75. Rusan was runner-up to Davis in 2002. Derrick Brew, who still holds the Barton County record in the 400m at 44.53 set in 1998, took 4th at the USA Outdoor Championships in the event. Brew cruised to heat wins in the 1st round and semifinals. In the finals he ran a 45.05 to take 4th. Tyree Washington won the race in 44.33. Floyd Thompson also took 4th in the 800m. Thompson, the record holder at Barton indoors in the 600y and 600m, never took higher than 3rd in the two preliminary races but came on strong in the finals. Thompson ran a 1:46.78 in the finals, missing 3rd by .02. Other former Cougars who did not place at the event were Adam Judge (14th – hammer throw), Erick Newby (10th – triple jump), Armstrong (1st round – 200m), and Wilson (1st round – 100m). On the women’s side, Hyleas Fountain chose to skip her best event – the pentathlon – and compete in the high jump and long jump. It wasn’t the best weekend for the 2002 Barton graduate and recent winner of the NCAA pentathlon for Georgia. Fountain fouled all three long jump efforts and missed her first three attempts in the high jump. Angel Heath took 23rd in the long jump. The lone current Cougar at the meet was Dexter Faulk, who took 2nd in the 110m hurdles in the junior division. Faulk, the reigning NJCAA Champion in the 110m hurdles, took 2nd with a time of 13.75. Kenneth Ferguson of South Carolina won the event in 13.60. Several former Cougars also competed in the Jamaican Nationals this past weekend, winning more hardware. Aleen Bailey continued her great running by capturing the Jamaican titles in the 100m and 200m. That matched her effort at the recent NCAA Championships where she doubled up for South Carolina. Bailey won the 100m in a time of 11.08, besting the 2nd place time of 11.20. Another ex-Cougar was 3rd as Beverly McDonald continues to run well in her 30’s, with a 3rd place effort of 11.24. All the runners were aided by the fact that Veronica Campbell, a 2003 graduate of Barton, skipped the event due to a minor injury. Bailey
took the 200m in 22.59, besting two other former Cougars. Juliet
Campbell
and McDonald, both of whom ran for Barton in the
early ‘90’s, came in 2nd and 3rd. Campbell ran a 22.69
and McDonald a 23.05. Chris Pinnock, the Barton County record holder in the 110m hurdles, took 2nd in that event at the Jamaican Nationals. Pinnock ran a 13.59. Maurice Wignall won in 13.54. Pinnock recently took 2nd at the NCAA meet for Texas A&M as well. Mardrea Hyman took 2nd in the 800m run, finishing the race in a time of 2:03.66. Hyman still holds the record at Barton in the 1500m set in 1992 at 4:23.51. Her name is also in the Top 5 at Barton in several other distance races. Current Cougar Steven Mullings took 4th in the 200m in 20.65 and just missed the finals of the 100m. Other former Cougars who placed in Jamaica were Dionne Rose-Henley (6th, 100m H – 13.22), Camille Robinson (5th, 400m H – 57.78), and Shellene Williams (6th, 400m – 52.68). Results of USA Outdoor Championships -30- Check out Barton County Track Online at http://www.bartonccc.edu/sports
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