Sunday, May 16, 2010

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville steamrolled through Saturday’s track events - winning every event from the 100-meter dash up to the 1,500-meter run - as they claimed their fifth consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Saturday from UNF’s Hodges Stadium. 

Jacksonville’s Unique Singleton set the Championship record in the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.80. Danielle Davenport’s second-place finish gave Jacksonville the top two spots in the event. Singleton claimed another conference crown, winning the 200-meter dash with a time of 24.29, edging teammate Charlene Charles. Charles, who took the long jump title Friday, finished 0.07 seconds behind her fellow Dolphin.

Charles earned three of the championship superlative honors, Most Outstanding Track Performer, Most Outstanding Freshman Performer and Most Valuable Performer. Kennesaw State’s Suzee Mills earn the Field Performer honors leading the Owls to a second-place finish. Jacksonville head coach Ron Grigg picked up his fifth Coach of the Year accolade.

Kennesaw State’s Jill Arthur took home the triple jump title, establishing a conference-meet record mark of 12.60-meters. Arthur bested Campbell’s Nadia Natt, who finished second with a mark of 11.97m.
 
Charles continued to collect conference crowns on Saturday, winning the 100-meter hurdles. The Jacksonville freshman also took second in the 100m dash, while teammate Louise Kiernan took the top honor. The Dolphins’ showing in that event gave the five-time champs their first lead of Saturday.
 
After taking the lead, the Dolphins never looked back, Joane Pierre took the top spot in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:12.89 while teammate Amalia Vogler ran a 2:13.89 to finish second.

J’Zotta Rolle gave Jacksonville a win the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:01.42 as fellow Dolphin Stacey Young finished second in a time of 1:0.83.
 
From the end of the 14th event, the high jump, to the end of the 17th event, the 400-meter hurdles, Jacksonville went from down five-and-a-half points to holding a 41.5 point lead. 
 
In the 3,000-meter steeplechase Aubrey Alexander of Belmont claimed the conference title with a time of 11:32.36. The Bruins’ senior trailed UNF’s Hillary Adams until the final lap when Alexander overtook Adams on the back stretch to claim the title, Adams took second with a time of 11:40.71.
 
In the 4x100-meter relay, Jacksonville jumped out to an early lead and took the team title in a time of 45.16. Charles crossed the line for the Dolphins ahead of UNF’s SaLydia James, who brought the Ospreys in with a second-place finish time of 46.39. 
 
Alyssa Deal of Jacksonville headed up a one-two-three finish for the Dolphins in the 1,500-meter run. Deal finished in a time of 4:31.21.

Kennesaw State claimed the top three spots in the 5,000-meter with Mackenzie Howe leading the way with a time of 16:49.92 adding the win to her win in the 10,000-meter run from Friday. Erin Sutton and Britany Reilly finished in second and third with times of 17:27.08 and 17:32.29, respectively.

Jacksonville claimed the final running event of the meet with a win in the 4x400-meter relay. Vogler, Rolle, Pierre and Danielle Davenport ran a time of 3:46.96 for the Dolphins. UNF finished in second with a  time of 3:48.16.
 
In the heptathlon, Naomi Mack of Kennesaw State claimed the title, with 4,400 points, besting Jacksonville’s Tiffany Bromfield by seven points. Mack entered the final event, the 800-meter run, 320 points behind Bromfield. Mack won the race, besting the field by nearly 14 seconds, to claim the multi-event championship. If the Owls’ sophomore posted a time just .63 seconds slower, Bromfield would have claimed the title for the Dolphins.
 

UNF’s Elise Trexler took the title in the high jump with a mark of 1.68 meters. Jakia Ragland from Kennesaw State finished second with a leap of 1.63m. 

In the discus, the Owls’ Mills picked up the A-Sun title with a heave of 45.85 meters. Laura Phillips of Jacksonville finished second with a mark of 44.02m.
 
UNF’s Ashton McGuire took the conference title in the javelin with a toss 40.97 meters finishing ahead of Kennesaw State’s Chelsey Denesha who recorded a throw of 39.58m. 

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