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This past weekend in New York at the Armory Track and Field Center, the Poly Trackrabbits (as well as the Fieldrabbits) proved they’re going to be a force to be reckoned with not just on the local level, but on the national stage as well, with several great showing in the National Scholastic Indoor Championships. <\/span>Also showing strong was Millikan’s Paisley Pettway, who earned All-American status in the 800-meter.<\/p>\n Poly took home national champion honors in an astounding three events (all three by the defending two-time state champion girls’ team), and All-American Honors in another seven events, with five of those finishes by the girls’ team.<\/p>\n Here are the full results, compiled by Poly girls’ distance coach Nate Bershtel. Girls: 60 meter dash prelims (top 24 qualify for semis): 9th place – Carisma Lyday 7.67 28th place – Traci Hicks 7.94 43rd place – Sharona Johnson 8.04 60 meter dash semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals): 11th place – Carisma Lyday 7.76 400 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals): 5th place – Akawkaw Ndipagbor 55.83 14th place – Azia Walker 56.90 400 meter dash finals 6th place – Akawkaw Ndipagbor 55.54 (All-American Honors) 800 meter dash 6th place – Paisley Pettway 2:14.11 (All-American Honors for the UCLA-signed Ram) 20th place – Arielle Stevenson 2:19.41 (won her heat) 30th place – Dynasty Gammage 2:21.80 (got stepped on and stumbled…ran 2:12 in the 4×800 relay the night before, which would have finished in 4th) 60 meter hurdles prelims (top 16 qualify for the semis): 10th place – Melia Cox 8.92 60 meter hurdles semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals): 12th place – Melia Cox 9.01 4 x 1 mile relay: 14th place – Rebekah Oragwu, Rachel Pavey, China Howard, Vanessa Flores 23:07.70 (about 5:45 average per runner for 1600 meters…Oragwu ran 5:29 on the lead-off leg) 4 x 200 meter relay: 1st Place, NATIONAL CHAMPIONS:<\/strong><\/span> Carisma Lyday, Traci Hicks, Melia Cox, Akawkaw Ndipagbor 1:40.45 4 x 400 meter relay: 3rd place (All-American Honors) – Azia Walker, Ne’Ausha Logan, Erika Winston, Akawkaw Ndipagbor 3:49.49 4 x 800 meter relay: 1st Place NATIONAL CHAMPIONS:<\/strong><\/span> -Arielle Stevenson, Ne’Ausha Logan, Erika Winston, Dynasty Gammage (with Gammage splitting 2:12 for her leg of the race) 9:08.77 1600 meter Sprint Medley Relay (200-200-400-800): 2nd place (All-American Honors) – Carisma Lyday, Melia Cox, Akawkaw Ndipagbor, Arielle Stevenson (with Arielle splitting 2:16 for her leg of the race) 4:04.25 Distance Medley Relay (1200-400-800-1600): 8th place – Rebekah Oragwu (running 3:52 for the 1200), Azia Walker, Ne’Ausha Logan, Dynasty Gammage (running 5:09 for the 1600) 12:24.34 High Jump: 1st Place, NATIONAL CHAMPION:<\/span> Tara Richmond (5 feet 9.75 inches) Triple Jump: 2nd place (All-American Honors) – Tara Richmond (40 feet 9.50 inches…2 inches away from the winner) 3rd place (All-American Honors) – Melia Cox (39 feet 9.25 inches) 31st place – Traci Hicks (34 feet 11.75 inches) Boys: 60 meter dash prelims (top 24 qualify for the semis): 1st place – Kaelin Clay 6.95 24th place – Kameron White 7.12 37th place – Kyle Byrdsong 7.31 40th place – Dabness Atkins 7.34 41st place – Justin Peters 7.35 42nd place – Richard Smith 7.35 45th place – Kameron Jackson 7.41 60 meter dash semi-finals (top 8 qualify for the finals): 17th place – Kameron White 7.12 (Clay did not compete) 200 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals): 20th place – Kaelin Clay 22.44 26th place – Kameron White 22.53 33rd place – Kiree Jabril 22.61 35th place – Richard Smith 22.76 67th place – Justin Peters 24.07 68th place – Kyle Byrdsong 24.13 69th place – Dabness Atkins 24.18 72nd place – Kameron Jackson 24.33 400 meter dash prelims (top 12 qualify for the finals): 31st place – Shaquille Howard 50.82 800 meter dash 16th place – Myles Andrews 1:56.85 72nd place – Veth Seng 2:13.34 60 meter hurdles prelims (top 16 advance to semis): 32nd place – Demontay High 9.30 4 x 1 mile relay: 8th place – Christian Penn (split 4:26), Eric Riehl (split 4:35), Sean Price (split 4:39), Ruben Baerga (split 4:38) 18:10.79 (about a 4:32 average per runner for 1600 meters) 4 x 200 meter relay: 2nd place (All-American Honors) – 1:28.79 (a mere 4 hundredths of a second off of 1st place) 4 x 400 meter relay: 17th place – 3:26.17 4 x 800 meter relay: 5th place (All-American Honors) – Aaron Harris (split 1:55), Chris Hall (split 1:57), Veth Seng (split 2:07: was tripped and fell with 50 meters to go, was in the lead. Had to get up and find the baton and then finish…was on pace for 1:58-1:59 split), Myles Andrews (split 1:56) 7:57.65 Distance Medley Relay (1200-400-800-1600): 12th place – Ruben Baerga, Myles Andrews, Aaron Harris (split 1:55 for the 800), Christian Penn (split 4:34 for the 1600) 10:49.24 High Jump: 9th place – Corey Winston (6 feet 5 inches) Long Jump: 10th place – Kiree Jabril (21 feet 11 inches) 24th place – Blake Gray (20 feet 7.75 inches) Wondering how to get your team’s results on LBPOSTsports? All it takes is an email or a phone call! 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