EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois -- The Tennessee
State track and field teams wrapped up the action at the 2014 OVC Outdoor
Championship, each finishing in fourth place.
Reigning Freshman
of the Year Amber Hughes won the 100-meter hurdles, besting her prelim time of
13.52 seconds with a 13.46 showing in the finals.
Hughes later
placed second in the women’s 200-meter dash following a sprint of 24.19 seconds,
while fellow Tigerbelle Ashontae Jackson also picked up a silver medal in the
400 (54.83).
Sophomore Clairwin
Dameus continued TSU’s impressive outing by placing first in the 400-meter
hurdles (1:00.74), long jump (6.22 meters) and heptathlon (5,399
points).
In the final
women’s events of the day, Dameus, Hughes and Jackson teamed with Quanisha Sales
to take home the 4x400 (3:39.99) and 4x100 (45.05) titles while also breaking
the old Ohio Valley Conference records.
Jerome Henderson
started the Flying Tigers’ second day of the championship by winning the
100-meter dash after a run of 10.42 seconds and Micahel Johnson extended the
solid opening by placing fourth in the 400-meter (47.79).
In the 800-meter,
Quamel Prince shaved nearly two seconds off of his preliminary time the day
before to come in third in the finals (1:50.90).
Jahleel Michael
picked up a second-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles (52.48), while Daryl
Rice placed fourth in the high jump (2.05 meters).
Johnson, Michael
and Prince ended the day by teaming with Emmanuel Thornton to secure a
second-place finish in the 4x400 relay after a final time of 3:14.04.
SEMO took home
both women and men's titles.
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