Junior sprinter Allodin Fothergill and the women's distance medley relay team each won events to help the Maryland Eastern Shore track and field teams finish 11th and 13th at the Albany Great Dane Classic at the Armory Track and Field Center on Friday.

 

Fothergill set a new meet record in the men's 400 meters and qualified for the IC4A Championship in the process. He won the event in 47.46, just off the NCAA provisional qualification standard. The women's distance medley relay squad topped the field in 12:15.84.

 

The Hawks scored 24 points and the Lady Hawks had 19 on the day, Albany's men's and women's teams swept the team titles with 145.5 and 81 points, respectively.

 

No fewer than 10 UMES individuals and relay teams tallied points for finishing in the top-eight places in their events.

 

Jamahl Strachan was fourth in the high jump. He leaped 1.96 meters.

 

Peter Sang and Saisha Woodward were fifth in their events. Sang clocked in at 15:09.63 in the 5,000 meters and Woodward had a mark of 13,46 meters in the shot put.

 

Both men's and women's 4x400-meter relay teams were seventh in those event in 2:20.19 and 3:55.91, respectively.

 

Monique Hawkins and Danai Lendor went 7-8 in the women's 400, crossing in 57:47 and 57:50. Hawkins narrowly missed the NCAA provisional qualifying standard by seven hundredths of a second.

 

Fothergill wasn't the only Hawk to score in the men's 400, Paul Jones-Burden did as well. He was eighth in a time 49.24.

 

 

Although he didn't score in the 200 meters, Thomas Keane-Dawes also barely massed a qualifying standard. He was 12th in the event in 22:34, a tenth off of the mark for the IC4A Championship.

 

UMES is back in action Jan. 30-31 at the Penn State Invitational.