May 6, 2007

Complete Results

BALTIMORE, MD. - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) men's and women's track team brought home some hardware this weekend as both squads took second place at the MEAC Outdoor Championship on Saturday at Morgan State's Hughes Stadium.

The Fighting Hawks tallied 138.5 points to claim runner-up honors while the Lady Hawks brought home its second place finish with 119 points.

Highlighting the Championship were the performances of freshman Peter Sang and senior Kimani Kirton. Sang won two events, the men's 5000m in 15:27.76 and the 3000m steeplechase in 9:32.08. He set a new MEAC mark in the latter, breaking the record previously set by UMES' own Barnabas Togom (9:33.43) in 2004.

Kirton won the men's shot put with a hurl of 18.08m (59'4") and shattered the old MEAC mark set by South Carolina State's Phil Murphy (17.42m) nearly 30 years ago. The Jamaica native also had a good outing in the discus with his second place throw of 48.53m (159'3").

Senior Ronnie Beard took home a pair of second place finishes in the 110m hurdles (14.24) and the 400m hurdles (51.70). Jason Daley was the runner up in the men's long jump, leaping 7.29m (23'9") while Charles Elmer was not too far behind after jumping 7.08m (23'2") for a fourth-place finish. Daley brought home another medal after tallying 5622 points in the decathlon for a third place finish. Jamahl Strachan had a good outing in the latter and took fifth with 5622 points while finishing third and fourth in the high jump and pole vault, respectively.

Daley also finished sixth in the javelin throw (44.86m or 147'2") while Dwayne Robinson threw 46.30m (151'11") to take fifth in the same event.

Chris Havrilla took home a fourth place finish in the 800m run (1:54.77) while Clayton James crossed the 1500m line in 4:01.33, good for a fourth place finish.

Solomon Kirongo had good outings in the 5000m run (16:02.55) and the 3000m steeplechase (9:59.28) and brought home fourth-place finishes in both events.

Dionne Wright won the women's shot title this weekend

On the women's side, Merrecia James matched her indoor championship total of three gold medals this weekend when she won three events for the Lady Hawks (800m run - 2:10.31; 1500m run - 4:35.81; 5000m run - 17:41.41).

Dionne Wright won gold in the women's shot put (14.49m or 47'7") and grabbed third in the discus throw (132'2") while Sherita Harriott took second in the javelin with a hurl of 43.90m (144'). Wright finished fourth in the same event, throwing 38.41m (126').

On the track, Danieth Pryce took home a pair of silver medals after finishing as the runner up in the 100m (11.77) and 200m dash (24.03). Tanisha Wisdom was fourth in the latter after crossing the line in 24.23 and later went on to finish third in the 400m dash (53.94).

Betty Chumbe was the runner up behind James in the 5000m run (17:43.53) and was the bronze medal winner in the 1500m run after finishing the event in 4:46.99.

The women's 4x100m relay squad took third in 46.39 while the 4x400m team finished fourth in 3:46.33.

UMES will next travel to Atlanta for the Georgia Tech Last Chance Meet on May 11-12.