Saint Augustine's University World Leader Cato, Shaw Jr. Win On Second Day Of Penn Relays

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania – World leader Roxroy Cato (Sr./St. Mary's, Jamaica) of Saint Augustine's University won the men's 400 meter hurdles in the college championship division and teammate David Shaw Jr. (Jr./Red Springs, NC) won the men's long jump college division at the 2014 Penn Relays at Franklin Field on Friday, April 25.

Cato and Shaw are the second and third St. Aug competitors to win at the 2014 Penn Relays. Shakinah Brooks (Fr./Raleigh, NC) won the women's long jump in the college division Thursday, April 24, with a leap of 19-9.

Cato outran Mica-Jonathan Petit-Homme of Long Island University with a time of 50.70 seconds. Petit-Homme was second in 51.58 and Byron Robinson of Penn State University was third in 51.70. Elhadji Mbow (Sr./Dakar, Senegal) of St. Aug placed eighth in 52.19.

Cato owns the world-leading time in the 400 hurdles this year. He posted a time of 48.67 at the Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla., on April 4.

Mbow has the fifth-fastest time in the 400 hurdles this season among all collegians. He ran a time of 50.12 at the Florida Relays on April 4.

Both Shaw and DeJon Wilkinson (Sr./Summerville, SC) of the Falcons set career marks in the long jump. Shaw won the men's long jump college division with a mark of 24-5. He defeated Terence Boyd of Kentucky (23-10¼) and Richard Rouse Jr. of Indiana (23-6).

Wilkinson placed second in the men's long jump championship division with a mark of 25-10¼. Corey Crawford of Rutgers won the event with a jump of 25-11.

The Falcons' group of Daniel Jamieson (Soph./Windsor, CT), Taffawee Johnson (Sr./St. Ann, Jamaica), Burkheart Ellis Jr. (Soph./Raleigh, NC) and Jermaine Jones (Jr./Wilmington, NC) posted the third-fastest qualifying time (39.93) in the men's 4x100 meter relay. They advanced to Saturday's Championship of America finals. The Falcons defeated Cornell University (41.21) and Duke University (42.01) in the second qualifying heat.

The Lady Falcons' quartet of Shamia Lassiter (Soph./Chesapeake, VA), Ornella Livingston (Fr./Jamaica), Shakinah Brooks (Fr./Raleigh, NC) and Kandace Thomas (Jr./Canton, OH) placed second in the college division of the women's 4x100 meter relay with a season's-best time of 44.95. G.C. Foster of Jamaica won the event in 44.53.

The St. Aug foursome of Jones, Joshua Edmonds (Sr./Jacksonville, FL), Jamieson and Ta Juan James (Soph./Patterson, NJ) ran the fourth-fastest qualifying time (1:23.01) in the men's 4x200 meter relay. They will compete in the Championship of America finals on Saturday.

Ty'reak Murray (Sr./Portsmouth, VA) finished fourth in the first heat and 12^th overall in the qualifying round of the men's 110 meter hurdles. He ran a season-best time of 14.18.

The Falcons' squad of Edmonds, James Quarles (Sr./Washington, DC), Kevaughn Hewitt (Sr./Miamar, FL) and Cato finished 10^th in the men's 4x400 qualifying round. They advanced to Saturday's college division finals with a time of 3:09.25.

To see the complete schedule and results, go to thepennrelays.com. The prestigious meet will be televised live Saturday, April 26, on the NBC Sports Network from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. The NBC Sports Network is Channel 65 on Time Warner Cable.

The Falcons are scheduled to run in the men's 4x100 Championship of America relay during that time slot at 1:50 p.m. They are also set to compete in the men's 4x200 Championship of America relay at 2:45 p.m.



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