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Highlights by Don Rich - Jack
Pfeiffer takes the A train
by Don Rich
New Girls 200m Meet and National Record in prelims- breaking record
set last
year by Angel Perkins
Sanya Richards 12 Pembroke Pines, FL 23.41
Abney and Pousset miss qualifying for finals finishing 7th &
9th
respectively.
3rd fastest ever Boys
4x200
Deep Creek HS VA 1:27.68
splits 21.5, 21.9, 21.8, 22.4
Boys 4xmile
North Mecklenberg HS NC 17:47.4
Bershawn Jackson - best times 200m & 60m hurdles
Boys 200m top qualifier-
Bershawn Jackson, Miami FL 21.51
Girls 60m dash top qualifiers-
Janice Davis Natchez MS 7.54
Karina Francis Philadelphia PA 7.57
Boys 60m dash top qualifier-
Jerreld Watson Morgan City LA 6.73
Girls 60m hurdle top qualifier-
Fatmata Fohanah Bronx NY 8.65
Boys 60m hurdle top qualifier-
Bershawn Jackson, Miami FL 7.95
Winner Boys shotput
Gary Freeman 12 Chesapeake, VA 16.96m 55'07.75"
Take the A Train
by Jack Pfeiffer
Took the train (the N to the uptown A) to the Armory/NYC today
for Day 2 of
the National High School Indoor, just in time to catch 2 national
records.
A third was just missed.
Girls 200m
Has there ever been a HS field like this? The lineup for Sunday's
final,
with each athlete's (outdoor) PR:
Angel Perkins Calif 23.07/52.18
Allyson Felix Calif 23.31
Shana Cox NY 23.91
Sanya Richards Fla 23.09
Janice Davis Miss 23.71
Stephanie Smith Ga 52.11
The heat results:
I
*Dominique Dorsey Inglewood, Cal 24.75 lane 4
II
*Stephanie Smith Northeast, Macon 24.25q lane 5
III
-Angel Perkins Gahr, Cerritos 24.28q lane 6
IV
-Juliette Poussot Irwin, Rosemont Pa 24.75 lane 2
V
*Allyson Felix LA Baptist 24.26q lane 3
VI
-Ashley Purnell Ontario Can 24.74 lane 6
VII
*Shana Cox Holy Trinity, Hicksville 24.28q lane 6
*Tiffany Abney Merion Mercy, Pa 24.64 lane 5
IX
-Sanya Richards St. Aquinas, Fort
Lauderdale/Jamaica 23.41q HSR lane 5
X
*Janice Davis Natchez Miss 24.15q lane 4
*Yendy Gilchrist NYC 24.82 lane 6
Sherraine Pencil Ontario 24.86 lane 5
Richards takes back the indoor HSR she set (23.64) in 2000 but lost
last
year to Perkins (23.59) on this track.
Girls' PV
Samantha Shepard (Weston, Mass) raised her own indoor HSR to 13-4.25
(4.07), becoming 2nd all-time HS to outdoor recordholder Shayla
Balentine.
She then failed 3 times at 13-8.25.
In the process she defeated the three other leading prep vaulters
in the
country: Stacie Manuel (Willmar, Minn), Molly Lederman (Newton,
Mass) and
Julene Bailey (Nampa, Idaho).
Manuel had a 3rd-attempt clearance of 13-0.25 (3.97), Lederman the
same at
12-8.25 (3.87), and Bailey cleared 12-4.5 (3.77) on her first try
after a
number of misses at lower heights.
Manuel, Shepard and Lederman are seniors; Bailey is a junior. The
highest-finishing soph was Anna McFarlane (Concord, Mass), who slithered
over 12-0.5 (3.67) with her back to the mat, like a flop jumper.
Girls 4xmile
Bronxville NY took a shot at the HSR of 20:23.24, set 2 years ago
by
Rockford, Mich. They had a good challenge from Red Bank Regional
(NJ) but
fell just short, running 20:29.30. Red Bank had a 5:38 leg so settled
for
20:46.30; they were leading at the 2nd exchange:
Bronxville
Kate Ogorzaly 5:09.0, Caroline Mullen 5:11.4, Catha Mullen 5:11.1,
Michelle
Rorke 4:57.8
Red Bank
5:09.2, Kathleen Trotter 5:01.7, 5:38, Amanda Trotter 4:58
Other highlights
Girls 4x2 heats
Fastest: North (Cal) 1:38.98, Speed City (Wilson-LB, Cal) 1:39.09
Boys 4x2 heats
Finalists: Deep Creek (Va) 1:27.68 (3rd-fastest a-t), Taft (Cal)
1:28.40,
Speed City 1:28.45, Lakeland Va 1:29.07, Poly Prep (Brooklyn) 1:29.13,
DeMatha (Md) 1:29.24
Friday followup:
Stacey Ann Livingston, Boys & Girls' star, collapsed at the
finish of the
SMR. She had been sick during the week and ran (only) 2:12 on the
anchor
800. By virtue of Selena Sappleton's 2:10 anchor, rival A. Philip
Randolph
won the race instead, and just missed Wilson's HSR.
JP
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