Source: www.guardian.co.tt
Men’s 4x100 miss out on medal
Story by: Clayton Clarke
Semoy Hackett continued her impressive 2011 US Collegiate season by winning gold at the prestigious 117th Penn Relays, which ended at the Franklyn Field Stadium in Pennsylvania, USA, yesterday. Hackett was part of her Louisiana State University relay team which captured the College Women’s Sprint Medley event on Friday afternoon. With Hackett on the lead-off leg, LSU sped to gold in 3:48:45. Early in the day, Hackett was part of LSU’s silver-medal winning 4x100m squad. She completed her Penn Relay campaign with a bronze in the College Women’s 100m. The 2009 World Championships 100m semifinalist got to the line in 11.43 seconds behind Jamaican Carrie Russell (U Tech) who won in 11.29 and the USA’s Lakya Brookins of South Carolina (11.39). Hackett’s time was slower than her clocking in the heats (11.38), the quickest in the preliminaries.
Lalonde Gordon also stuck gold in Pennsylvania. The 2010 CAC 4x400m relay bronze medallist helped his Zenith Velocity outfit to the top of the podium in the Olympic Development Men’s 4x100m event in 3:11:92. St Francois Girls College were second in the High School Girls 4x100m relays for Large Schools. The Belmont-based school quartet of Janae Alexander, Tsai Ann Joseph, Kernesha Span and Lisa Wickham clocked 47.61 and were denied gold by Queen’s School of Jamaica, who won in 47.03.
T&T’s Men’s 4x100m team of Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callender and Richard Thompson was fourth in the USA vs the World Men’s 4x100m. The 2008 Beijing Olympic quartet crossed the line in 39.18, well behind the winners Jamaica (38.33), the USA Red (38.43) and USA Blue (38.66). In 2010, T&T’s squad was fifth in 38.91 behind Jamaica (with Usain Bolt on anchor), who took the top spot in a Penn Relay record of 37.90. The USA Blue team captured the USA vs the Rest of the World 4x100m title in a new record of 42.33, ahead USA Blue (42.64) and Jamaica (42.74).
Queen’s Royal College also came up short in the High Schools Boys 4x100 relay for Small Schools. The quartet of Deon Lendore, Jonathan Holder, Asa Guevara and Jonathatn Farinha clocked 42.24 seconds for fourth place. Camperdon of Jamaica took the gold in 41.69, ahead of Junipero Serra (41.75), with another Jamaican school, Herbert Morrison (41.94), in third. In the heats, QRC was ninth in 42.73. There was more success for T&T’s athletes at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa yesterday as Zwede Hewitt propelled Baylor to victory in the University Men’s 4x200m in 2:21:47. Hewitt also helped Baylor qualify for the 4x100 finals, which were contested late yesterday. Baylor clocked 40:43.
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College Women’s Sprint Medley Championships of America (Finals)
1. LSU (Semoy Hackett) 3:48:45
Olympic Development Men’s 4x400m (Finals)
1. Zenith Velocity (Lalonde Gordon) 3:11:92
High Schools Girls' 4x100m (Large Schools) (Finals)
2. St Francois Girls(Janae Alexander, Tsai Ann Joseph, Kernesha Span, Lisa Wickham) 47.61
(Heats)
8. St Francois College 48.28
16. St Joseph Convent (POS) 48.71
College Women’s 100m dash (Finals)
1. Carrie Russel (U Tech/Jam) 11.29
2. Lakya Brookins (South Carolina/USA) 11.39
3. Semoy Hackett (LSU) 11.43
(Heats)
1. Hackett 11.38
USA vs Rest of the World Men’s 4x100 (Finals)
1. Jamaica (Asafa Powell, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, Steve Mullings) 38:33
2. USA Red (Walter Dix, Wallace Spearmon, Trell Krimmons, MIke Rodger) 38:43
3. USA Blue (Justin Gatlin, Darvis Patton, Shawn Crawford, Ivory Williams) 38.66
4. T&T (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, Emmanuel Callendar, Richard Thompson) 39:18
High School Boys 4x100m (Small Schools) (Finals)
4. Queen’s Royal College (Deon Lendore, Jonathan Holder, Asa Guevara, Jonathan Farinha) 42.24
(Heats)
9. QRC (Deon Lendor, Jonathan Holder, Asa Guevara, Jonathan Farinha) 42.73
17. St Anthony’s College (Kyle Bacchus, Thulani George, Kory Woods, Ian Thomas) 43.26
College Men’s Long Jump Championships (Finals)
13. Kyron Blaise (LSU) 7.20m
College Men’s 4x200m (Heats)
14. Middlle Tennesse (Kendall Bacchus) 1:25:04
High Schools Boys 4x400m (Heats)
15. Queen Royal (Asa Guevara (50.72), Jonathan Farinha (49.76), Edwin Phillips (52.14), Deon Lendore (47.38) 3:19:99
El Dorado (Brandon Benjamin (49.53), Kishon Dempster (55.30), Brent Bernard (54.63), Kristian Farrell (52.18) 3:31:63
Fatima (Che Carr, William Alexander, Mikheil Caraby, Marcel Kewis ) 3:42:11
High Schools Boys Long Jump (Finals)
19. Kerry Benjamin (St Anthony’s College) 6.36m
College Men’s Triple Jump (Finals)
6. Kyron Blaise (LSU) 15:35m
DRAKES RELAYS
University Men’s 4x200m (Finals)
1. Baylor (Zwede Hewitt) 1:21:47
University Men’s 4x100m (Heats)
3. Baylor (Zwede Hewitt) 40:43 (1h1)