BOWIE STATE CLOSES OUT INDOOR CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ON HIGH NOTES
HAMPTON, Va. - A freshman qualifying for the NCAA Div. II Championships highlighted a solid weekend for the Bowie State University’s women’s and men’s track and field teams at the 2013 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Championships.
Freshman Kendall Reynolds (Lompoc, Ca.) won the women’s triple jump with a record 11.95-meter effort. The NCAA Div. II provisional qualification for the women’s triple jump is 11.5 meters as she walked away with the CIAA’s women’s field athlete most valuable performer honors.
Reynolds tied for the best effort in the women’s long jump at 5.95 meters but finished second to Lincoln University (Pa.) Diane Lindsay, who accomplished the same distance on fewer attempts.
Overall, the Bulldogs’ women finished in fifth place with 39 points while the Bulldogs’ men also finished in fifth place with 31 points. The St. Augustine’s University women (95 points) and men (204 points) both captured the CIAA team titles.
Junior Brelyn Finley (Clinton, Md.) won the women’s shot put with a throw of 12.95 meters.
Lady Bulldogs senior Michelle Palmer (Fort Washington, Md.) finished fifth in the women’s pentathlon with 2,167 points, while freshman Carissa Smith finished fifth in the women’s 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.11 seconds.
Junior Brittany Williams (Baltimore, Md.) finished fifth in the women’s 1-mile run with a time of 5:32.58 sixth in the women’s 800 meters with a time of 2 minutes, 22.28 seconds.
The team of Indya Price (Capital Heights, Md.), Faith Sykes (Richmond, Va.), Palmer and Smith finished sixth in the women’s 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:03.76.
Not to be overshadowed, the Bulldogs’ men had some nice performances in the men’s competition.
Senior Alonzo Williams finished sixth in the men’s 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.25 seconds, which earned him a provisional berth to the NCAA Div. II Championships.
Senior Dana Smothers (Bel Air, Md.) finished third in the men’s 800 meters with a time of 1:55.59, just missing out on NCAA Div. II provisional qualifying time of 1:54.20.
Smothers’ teammate Ndjami Chick finished third in the men’s 5,000 meters with a time of 16:47.31.
Senior Anthony Kiser (Baltimore, Md.) finished fourth in the men’s pentathlon with 4,008 points.
The team of Jalame Gomez, Fabian Gonzalez (Frederick, Md.), Bryan Williams and Smothers finished fourth in the men’s 1,600-meter relay with a time of 3:23.8. The team of Cullen Mosley, Sonny Hicks (Temple Hills, Md.), Ndjami and Smothers finished fourth in the men’s distance medley with a time of 11:26.06.
