Armory New Balance Collegiate Invitational Results
Armory New Balance Team Scores: Men | Women
Vince Brown Invitational results
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Hampton University men’s and women’s track & field teams competed this past Friday and Saturday in the Armory New Balance Collegiate Invitational at the Armory Track & Field Center, picking up three event titles.
The Lady Pirates picked up a pair of event titles, as
Racquel Vassell (Irvington, N.J.) won the long jump college competition with an NCAA provisional qualifying length of 6.16 meters. The distance medley relay team won the college race, with
Jahlisa Smith (Plainfield, N.J.),
Claudia Calder (Kingston, Jamaica),
Janean Morris (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and
Kenya Jones (Chesapeake, Va.) taking the gold in 11:50.18.
Damon Dixon (Great Falls, Va.) won the Pirates’ lone event title, taking the high jump eastern event with a school-record height of 2.04 meters.
Francena McCorory (Hampton, Va.) finished second in the 400-meter dash, running a 52.83. Jones, Calder, Morris and Smith also finished fourth in the 4x800-meter relay, running a 9:02.04. Calder also finished in a tie for fifth in the high jump college event, jumping 1.65 meters.
Predist Walker (Suffolk, Va.) finished second in the consolation heat of the 60-meter hurdles, running a 7.91, and he was also on the 4x200-meter relay team – along with
Devon Brown (Laurel, Md.), Christopher Williams and
Justin Battle (Somerset, N.J.) – that finished second in the college race, running a combined 1:27.70.
Walker also finished ninth in the long jump college event, jumping 7.11 meters.
Xavier Fraction (Sewell, N.J.),
David Kimani (Kenya),
Michael Davenport (Pleasantville, N.J.) and
Lawrence Campbell (Bronx, N.Y.) finished ninth in the 4x800-meter relay championship race with a combined time of 7:51.29.
Texas A&M swept both team titles, with the men scoring 99 points and the women tallying 107. The Lady Pirates finished 17th with 18 points, while the Pirates finished in a tie for 25th with Iona with eight points.
Three Lady Pirates also competed on Saturday in the Vince Brown Invitational, held at the Freeman Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va.
DeShana Briggs (Norfolk, Va.) turned in a second-place finish in the high jump with a height of 1.58 meters, while
Jocelyn Watkins (Ellenwood, Ga.) threw the shot put 12.32 meters to finish fifth.
Benita Taylor (Philadelphia, Pa.) ran a 2:24.05 in the 800-meter run to finish 11th.
The Pirates and Lady Pirates will return to action Thursday-Saturday, when they head to Landover, Md. to compete in the 2010 MEAC Championships. The Lady Pirates will look for their eighth straight conference indoor title, while the Pirates will look to improve on last year’s third-place finish.
For more information on Hampton University track & field, please call the Office of Sports Information at (757) 727-5811, or visit the official Pirates website at
www.hamptonpirates.com.