March 30, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. – The South Carolina track and field team completed the first day of competition at the Raleigh Relays hosted by NC State in Raleigh, N.C., on Friday. Sophomore Kayla Lampe broke a 15-year-old 10,000-meter school record and five Gamecocks advanced to event finals on the first day of competition. The women’s sprint medley relay team collected a win as well.
Lampe, who set the indoor 5,000-meter run a month ago as she won SEC silver, ran a 34:26.99 in the 10,000-meters to set a new Gamecock record. Lampe broke Tanya Povey’s 1998 time of 34:31.41 to sit atop another South Carolina all-time list. The time earned her a fourth-place finish.
The sprint medley relay quartet of freshmen Alexis Murphy and Ahtyana Johnson, junior Amber Allen and sophomore Erika Rucker picked up the win with a time of 3:57.74.
Junior Chris Royster and sophomore Eric Winfrey ran in the same 100-meter dash heat on Friday, both punching tickets for Saturday’s finals. Royster, who has won the 100 meters the last two weekends, advanced with the second-fastest time of the day at 10.56. Winfrey was fifth fastest at 10.74. The 100-meter dash finals are tomorrow at 12:15 p.m.
South Carolina’s 1-2 punch in the hurdles also advanced to Saturday’s event final. Freshmen Dondre Echols and Jermaine Collier ran in a 110-meter hurdle heat that saw all who finished the race advance to the final. Echols clocked in at 14.27, the second-fastest collegiate time and fourth-fastest overall. Collier earned the last spot in the eight-man final with a time of 14.71. Echols and Collier will race in the event finals at 12:05 p.m. tomorrow.
The Gamecock women will also be represented in hurdle finals tomorrow. Current collegiate-leader senior Kierre Beckles ran a 13.16, the fastest preliminary time of the day. Beckles will run for her third-consecutive outdoor win tomorrow at noon.
Graduate student Chelsea France ran the second-best 3,000-meter steeplechase in school history at 10:42.93. France finished fourth overall in her section.
Freshman Austin Eckenroth earned a second-place finish in the pole vault with a clearance of 15-11 (4.85m), his best of the outdoor season.
Competition resumes tomorrow with Dorian Johnson in the triple jump starting the day off for the Gamecocks at 11 a.m.
| MEN • RALEIGH RELAYS • FRI. MARCH 29, 2013 | ||
| 100m Dash – Prelims | ||
| 2. Chris Royster | 10.56q (-0.9) | |
| 5. Eric Winfrey | 10.74q (-0.9) | |
| 34. Chris Walker | 10.97 (0.2) | |
| 400m Dash | ||
| 26. Chris Maxwell | 48.89 | |
| 50. Nigel Redic | 49.69 | |
| 1,500m Run | ||
| 11. Robert Razick | 3:49.91 | |
| 56. Alex Sullivan | 4:03.10 PR | |
| 74. Daniel Novak | 4:05.72 | |
| 110m Hurdles – Prelims | ||
| 4. Dondre Echols | 14.27q (2.0) | |
| 8. Jermaine Collier | 14.71q (2.0) | |
| Long Jump | ||
| 9. Dorian Johnson | 6.96m // 22-10.00 | |
| Pole Vault | ||
| Austin Eckenroth | 4.85m // 15-11.00 | |
| WOMEN • RALEIGH RELAYS • FRI. MARCH 29, 2013 | ||
| 100m Dash – Prelims | ||
| 13. Alexis Murphy | 11.90 (1.5) | |
| 19. Vashti Bandy | 11.94 (1.5) | |
| 21. Ahtyana Johnson | 11.96 (2.8) PR | |
| 28. Gabrielle Gray | 12.02 (2.8) | |
| 400m Dash | ||
| 10. Christal Green | 55.43 | |
| 1,500m Run (Section IV) | ||
| Lisa Zimmer | 4:39.55 PR | |
| Anna Todd | 4:47.10 | |
| 3,000m Steeplechase (Section I) | ||
| 4. Chelsea France | 10:42.93 PR | |
| 5000m Run | ||
| 19. Mary Fouse | 17:19.54 (Section II) | |
| 7. Meredith Mill | 17:28.28 PR (Section III) | |
| 13. Christine Kent | 18:06.28PR (Section IV) | |
| 23. Penny Boswell | 18:16.98 (Section IV) | |
| 22. Stephanie Berger | 18:23.93 (Section IV) | |
| 10,000m Run | ||
| 4. Kayla Lampe | 34:26.99 School Record | |
| 100m Hurdles – Prelims | ||
| 1. Kierre Beckles | 13.16q (0.1) | |
| Sprint Medley Relay | ||
| 1. A. Murphy, A. Johnson, A. Allen, E. Rucker | 3:57.47 | |
| Long Jump | ||
| 12. Ceci Kryst | 5.60m // 18-04.50 (+0.0) | |
