DES MOINES, IOWA – It was a wonderful day for North Carolina A&T’s males’s and ladies’s out of doors sprinters on the historic Drake Relays on Friday and Saturday at Drake Stadium.
Junior Symone Darius had an impressive weekend. She received two occasions, together with the ladies’s 100 meters and the 4×400-meter relay. Junior Tavarius Wright additionally had a formidable outing at Drake College. He received the boys’s 100m and helped the Aggies end a detailed second within the 4×100.
The Aggies additionally had a win within the males’s 110-meter hurdles as junior Rasheem Brown took the prize. The ladies’s 4×100 group of sophomores Cambrea Sturgis and Kamaya Debose-Epps, junior Delecia McDuffie and freshman Jonah Ross additionally received at Drake.
The lads’s 4×400 groups discovered victory on Saturday as nicely.
Darius posted an 11.45 with a wind of solely 0.8. She ranks thirty first within the nation with a time of 11.38 ran on the Texas Relays on March 25. However she had a win of two.7 at that occasion. Darius ranks fifth within the Mid-Jap Athletic Convention (MEAC). Darius teamed with Sturgis, Ross and McDuffie to run a 3:37.30 to win the 4×400. The Aggies 4×400 group is ranked second within the convention and thirty eighth within the nation.
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Wright completed his 100m race in 10.37 a day after having the fastest-qualifying time a day earlier than at 10.65. Wright’s 10.06 posted at Texas Relays in March nonetheless stands because the second-fastest time within the convention. Wright additionally teamed with freshman Randolph Ross, Jr., junior Daniel Stokes and senior Akeem Sirleaf to run 39.149 to complete a detailed second to the College of Houston, who ran a 39.142.
Brown took down the competitors within the 110mh. Brown certified for the ultimate by operating a 14.16. On Saturday, he took the occasion with a time of 13.68. Brown is thirteenth within the nation within the 110mh after he posted a 13.65 on the Aggie Invitational at Irwin Belk Observe on April 10.
The ladies’s 4×100 group had the second-fastest qualifying time on Friday once they ran a 44.56. They got here again sturdy on Saturday to win in 43.95. The time ranks the Aggies thirteenth within the nation and No. 1 within the MEAC.
The lads’s 4×400 groups continued their nice season. The group of Ross Jr., Stokes, Sirleaf and Stewart completed in 3:02.14. The one distinction between the group that ran 3:00.23 on the College of Texas and the one which ran on Saturday was that Sirleaf ran as an alternative of senior Elijah Younger. Younger completed sixth within the males’s 400m in 47.53.
A&T’s different excellent efficiency occurred within the ladies’s 100mh. Senior TeJyrica Robinson ran the fastest-qualifying time on Friday at 13.50. She completed second on Saturday at 13.01. Robinson is thirteenth within the nation after her 12.97 on the Aggie Invitational. Robinson’s teammate and junior Paula Salmon completed third in 13.07. Senior Madeleine Akobundu had the third-fastest qualifying time (13.62) however didn’t begin on Saturday.
Courtesy: NCA&T Athletics
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