Savannah State Makes History; Tigers Repeat At Penn Relays

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 COURTESY SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania  --  The Savannah State men's track & field program made history last year at the oldest and largest track event in the nation, the Penn Relays Carnival, and on Friday, the Tigers repeated last year's success.

Cameron Hall, Felton Chinn, Lemaar Shakir, and Randy Thomas ran a 58.25 to win the shuttle hurdle relay on Friday.

The same team captured Savannah State's first Penn Relay Carnival relay win in last year's shuttle hurdle relay.

Shakir ran a 53.17 in the 400 meter hurdles to finish 15^th. Hall ran a 14.13 in the preliminary heat of the 110 meter hurdles. Hall missed the cut for the finals by one slot, finishing in 10^th.

Dolphurs Hayes recorded a distance of 4.60 meters to finish 10^th in the men's pole vault competition.

The SSU relay team of Hall, Justin Leggett, Kenshard Hamilton, and Shakir ran a 41.58 in the 4x100 relay, and a 1:24.52 in the 4x200 relay preliminary heats.
DeAndre Persons, Brandon Davis, Kristopher Ballou and Shakir ran a 3:18.37 in the preliminary race of the 4x400 relay.

SSU junior Asia Stinson qualified for the championship in the 100 meter dash, finishing third with a time of 11.66 in the preliminary heat. The 100m finals will be run on Saturday, April 26 at 3:35 p.m.

Stinson, Aluntrea Davis, Jazy Seay-Blane and Kortney Gray ran a 46.99 in the preliminaries of the 4x100 meter relay, and a 1:39.07 in the 4x200 meter relay.

For more information, including live results, and the events full history, visit www.thepennrelays.com.

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