St. Augustine's Women Successfully Defend Track Title
Men Finish Second

By the slimmest of margins the St. Augustine's College has captured its third consecutive women's national championship in NCAA Division II Track and Field. The Lady Falcons edged North Dakota State, 54-53, to take the title at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, Saturday

It all came down to the final event of the day where St. Aug beat NDSU in the 4X400M relay to capture the championship. Earlier, the reigning CIAA Champions finished 1-6-7 in the 400m run after a DQ in the 4X100M relay where they had the second fastest qualifying time.

Libia Rodriguez won the 400M Dash and finished 3rd in the 200M to earn 16 points on the final day of competition.

Fort Valley State finished sixth with 40 points thanks to the efforts of Sharlene Fuller. Fuller finished first in the women's 100M hurdles and second in the 400m hurdles. She also ran legs on the 4X100M relay team (2nd) and 4X400M relay (7th). Sandwiched between the running events, Fuller managed to finish 13th overall in the long jump competition. She had already finished fifth in the triple jump on Friday.

St. Aug's men fell short by three points and could not defend their title. The Falcons finished second to Abilene Christian, 91-88.

Sprinter Lancford Davis won the 200M Dash. Anwar Moore won the 110M Hurdles race and Adrian Findley captures the 400M Hurdles title. The Falcons also won the 4X400 Relay title.

Their fate may have been decided two days earlier when the 4X100M relay team was disqualified in the preliminaries. St. Aug came into the meet with the ninth best time in the country this year.

HBCU products picked up titles in five other events.

North Carolina Central's Jason Smoots successfully defended his title in the 100M Dash. Morehouse's Jason Cornelius won the high jump. Lincoln (MO) University won the women's 4X100M relay and North Carolina Central picked up the men's 4X100M relay title.

HBCU All Americans at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships

WOMEN 100M Dash Jody-Kay Martines - Lincoln, Anna Teschemaker - St. Augustine's, Creshendra Lane - Albany State 200M Dash Nadia Douglas - Fort Valley State, Libia Rodriguez - St. Augustine's, Moya Thompson - Lincoln 400M Dash Libia Rodriguez - St. Augustine's, Kennisha Moten - N.C. Central, Georgia Mullings - St. Augustine's, Shakirah Rutherford - St. Augustine's, Moya Thompson - Lincoln 800M Run Katerina Glosova - N.C. Central 100M Hurdles Sharlene Fuller - Fort Valley State, Samayah Islam - St. Augustine's, Nikkisha Maynard - Lincoln, Latasha McCoy - Shaw 400M Hurdles Sharlene Fuller - Fort Valley State 4X100M Relay Lincoln, Fort Valley State, Albany State High Jump Nikki Hill - Clark Atlanta Triple Jump Charlene Cummings - St. Augustine's, Sharlene Fuller - Fort Valley State Long Jump Cadriesha Akinfe - St. Augustine's, Nikkisha Maynard - Lincoln, Chanda Powell - N.C. Central SCORES FOR WOMEN: 1. St. Augustine's, 54; 2. North Dakota State, 53; 3. Abilene Christian, 48; 3. Western State (Co), 48; 5. Lincoln University, 42; 6. Fort Valley State, 40; 7. Ashland, 36; 8. Csla, 32; 9. North Florida, 31; 10. Lewis Univ, 30; 11. Grand Valley St, 28; 12. Pittsburg State, 26; 13. Angelo State, 25; 13. CS Dominguez, 25; 15. Cal State Bakersfield, 24; 16. Mornigside College, 23; 17. Emporia State, 21; 18. UC Davis, 18; 19. Adams State, 17; 19. Seattle Pacific, 17; 21. Southern Connecticut, 16; 21. Indiana Univ. (Pa), 16; 23. NC Central, 14; 24. Chico State, 13.50; 25. Truman State, 11; 26. Northern Colorado, 10; 27. Tarleton State, 9; 27. Edinboro Univ, 9; 27. Albany State, 9; 30. Texas A&M (Kingsville), 8.50; 31. Clark Atlanta University, 8; 32. Ferris State, 7; 32. UC San Diego, 7; 34. North Dakota, 6; 34. Lock Haven Univ, 6; 34. Slippery Rock, 6; 34. Western Oregon, 6; 34. Findlay, 6; 34. Cal State Stanislaus, 6; 34. South Dakota, 6; 41. West Chester, 5; 41. Ft. Hays State, 5; 41. South Dakota State, 5; 41. Central Missouri St, 5; 45. Western Washington, 4; 45. Missouri Southern St., 4; 47. Clayton, 3; 48. Cal Poly Pomona, 2; 49. Colorado Springs, 1; 49. Central Washington, 1; 49. Kutztown Univ, 1; 49. Shippensburg University, 1; 49. Shaw, 1.

MEN Long Jump Steven Enoch - N.C. Central, Maurice English - St. Augustine's Triple Jump Dane Magloire - St. Augustine's, Ray Benjamin - St. Augustine's, Robert Smith - Albany State 100M Dash Jason Smoots - N.C. Central, Kevin Bartlett - Lincoln 200M Dash Lancford Davis - St. Augustine's 400M Dash Lancford Davis - St. Augustine's, Nathaniel McKinney - St. Augustine's 110M Hurdles Anwar Moore - St. Augustine's, Jermaine Williams - St. Augustine's 400M Hurdles Adrian Findley - St. Augustine's, Marqueth Tard - St. Augustine's, Ednol Rolle - St. Augustine's 4X100M Relay N.C. Central 4X400M Relay St. Augustine's , Livingstone High Jump Jason Cornelius - Morehouse, Jesse Lipscombe - Morehouse SCORES FOR MEN: 1. Abilene Christian, 91; 2. St. Augustine's, 88; 3. Western State (Co), 63; 4. Tarleton State, 38; 5. NC Central, 28; 6. Angelo State, 27; 7. Ft. Hays State, 26; 7. New York Tech, 26; 9. Texas A&M (Kingsville), 25; 10. Northwest Missouri State, 24; 11. Adams State, 23; 12. Kutztown Univ, 21; 13. Pittsburg State, 19; 14. Indiana Univ. (Pa), 18; 14. Central Missouri St, 18; 16. Cal State Bakersfield, 17; 17. South Dakota, 16; 17. Texas A&M Commerce, 16; 17. North Florida, 16; 20. Morehouse College, 14.50; 21. Cal State Stanislaus, 14; 22. Missouri Southern St., 13; 23. Lewis Univ, 12.33; 24. Truman State, 12; 24. Cal Poly Pomona, 12; 26. Nebraska-Kearney, 11; 26. UC Davis, 11; 28. Chico State, 10; 29. Edinboro Univ, 9; 30. Wheeling Jesuit, 8.50; 31. Northwood, 8; 31. Lock Haven Univ, 8; 33. Lincoln University, 7; 34. North Dakota State, 6.33; 35. Albany State, 6; 36. Indianapolis, 5; 36. Colorado Mines, 5; 38. Wisconsin-Parkside, 4.50; 39. Ashland, 4; 39. Augustana College, 4; 39. Livingstone College, 4; 39. Southern Connecticut, 4; 39. Northern Colorado, 4; 44. Humboldt State, 3; 44. UC San Diego, 3; 44. Western Oregon, 3; 47. Saginaw Valley State, 2.50; 48. Grand Valley St, 2.33; 49. East Stroudsburg, 2; 49. Csla, 2; 51. Millersville Univ., 1; 51. Seattle Pacific, 1.

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