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Lendore, Bellille strike gold

DEANDRA Daniel broke the Coppin State University women’s high jump record when she lept to 1.80m at the Terrapin Invitational in College Park, Maryland on Saturday.

Daniel cleared the new mark on her third attempt to take third place in the competition and improve on the previous record of 1.78m she set in winning at the Father Diamond Invitational in Fairfax, Virginia on January 11.

The Terrapin Invitational was a success for the Dover Athletic Club athlete as she sat new personal best marks in long jump (5.56m) and the triple jump (10.63m). Daniel shared the previous high jump record of 1.75 with another TT athlete Natoya Baird, who now coaches Daniel at Coppin State.

Meanwhile, fellow TT/Coppin State athlete Haysean Cowie-Clarke recorded his first victory for his school taking the men’s 60m at the UMES Collegiate Invitational in Baltimore, Maryland on January 4.

Cowie-Clarke was first to the line in 6.97. In the 200m the former Scarborough Secondary/Bishops High student was sixth (22.30).

In his first meet for the season in December, Cowie-Clarke was third in the men’s 60m at the Navy Invitational in Annapolis, Maryland in 6.93 and set a personal best in the 200m clocking 22.59 to finish seventh.

Olympic bronze medallist Deon Lendore led Texas A&M to another men’s 4x400m title at the Texas A&M 10 Team Invitational in College Station, Texas on Saturday.

Lendore and his team-mates combined to clock 3:05.68. The anchor leg on T&T’s 2012 Olympic men’s 4x400m bronze medal winning team helped Texas A&M to victory in the Reveille Invitational in December in 3:07.14.

Fellow T&T/Texas A&M athlete Janiel Bellille led the way in the women’s 400m in 54.48. The 2008 World Junior 400m hurdles silver medallist clocked 54.48 seconds and returned to push Texas A&M to victory in the women’s 4x400m (3:37.16).

Reyare Thomas (Abilene Christian)missed out a medal in the women’s 200m finishing third in 23.91. Baylor’s Danielle Davis was sixth in the women’s 60m hurdles finals in 8.85, 0.03 seconds slower than her semifinals clocking. Thomas’ school mate Osei Alleyne-Forte finished tenth in the men’s 400m in 49.51.

RESULTS:

Terrapin Invitational, College Park, Maryland, January 18

Women:

High jump;1st- Amber Melville (Maryland) 1.83, 2nd- Amina Smith (Maryland) 1.80 ( cleared on second attempt), 3rd- Deandra Daniel (Coppin State) 1.80 (cleared on third attempt).

Men:

200m; 7th- Haydean Cowie-Clarke (Coppin State) 23.64

4x400m: 7th- Coppin State (Cowie-Clarke) 3:36.76

Father Diamond Invitational:

Women:

High jump; 1st- Deandra Daniel (Coppin State) 1.78, 2nd- Megan Simpson (VCU) 1.68m, 3rd- Teiara Denmark (Hampton) 1.63,

Long jump-8th Deandra Daniel (Coppin State) 4.85

CNU Holiday Open:

Women:

High jump; 2nd- Deandra Daniel (Coppin State) 1.67. Long jump; 9th Daniel 5.26

Texas A&M 10 Team Invitational:

Men:

400m; 10th- Osei Alleyne-Forte (Abilene Christian) 49.51, 2h3. 4x400m; 1st- Texas A&M (Deon Lendore) 3:05.68

Women:

200m-4th Reyare Thomas (Abilene Christian) 23.91, 3h1

200m-1st Janiel Bellille (Texas A&M) 54.48, 1h2

60m hurdles

Finals-6th Danielle Davis (Baylor) 8.85.

Prelims-7th Davis 8.82

4x400m-1st Texas A&M (Bellille) 3:37.16

UMES Collegiate Invitational, Baltimore, Maryland, January 4

Men:

60m-1st Haysean Cowie-Clarke (Coppin State) 6.97, 1h4, 2nd Nigel Thompson (Morgan State) 7.00, 2h4, 3rd Christian Boateng (Morgan State), 3h4

200m-6th Cowie Clarke 23.20

Navy Invitational Track and Field Meet, Annapolis, Maryland, December 6

Men:

60m Finals-3rd Haysean Cowie-Clarke (Coppin State) 6.93

Prelims-2nd Cowie-Clarke 6.95

200m-7th Cowie-Clarke 22.69 pb

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