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Day 1

Day 2
SATURDAY
Saturday’s action at the Texas Relays was cold and wet, but yet brave. While many teams’ athletes opted to withdraw from the running and field events due to weather conditions, some lined up at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin to compete and try to bring home a medal.
One Greater Houston team that decided to make the best of the situation was the boys of Houston Lamar. The Redskins team brought home medals in three different relays (4x100, sprint medley, and distance medley).
In the 4x100-meter relay, their time was 42.58 that was good for gold. In the sprint (3:33.07) and distance (10:55.75) medley, Lamar earned a bronze in both.
Greater Houston also faired well in the boys pole vault division. Maston Wallace of Clear Brook took the gold with a jump of 16-6 in Division II. St Johns’ Blaine Finley, competing in Division I, was a top (gold) finisher with a jump of 15 feet.
Other Houston-area top medallists were Cy Falls’ sprint medley relay team (first), Baytown Sterling’s 4x400 relay team (second), Episcopal’s David Nwabuisi (shot put-second) and Bryan Miller (100M-third), and Dayton’s PJ McGowen (high jump-third)
For the girls, Clear Brook and Lamar finished well with top finishers. Clear Brook’s 4x100 relay team finished first with a time of 48.74, and 100M runner Erica Alexander was second place.
Lamar’s girls sprint (4:02.81) and distance (12:26.13) medley relay teams finished first and second respectively.
Other top finishers were as follows:
Brittani Carter-FB Marshall (high jump-gold)
Danielle Upshaw-Oak Ridge (shot put-silver)
Episcopal 4x800 relay (silver)
Westbury sprint medley (bronze)
Alex Gibbs-Kinkaid (100 hurdles-bronze)
A’ Lexus Brannon-Beaumont Ozen (long jump-bronze)
For complete Texas Relays results: http://www.texassports.com/results/2007txrel/index.htm
FRIDAY
The Texas relays in Austin are underway and the first day has set the tone for Saturday. The finals for the majority of the events have been determined as prelims were underway all day Friday.
As for Houston area participants, Alex Gibbs of Kinkaid qualified for the finals of the Division I 100m girls hurdles with a time of 15.18 seconds.
In the Division II hurdles A’ Lexus Brannon of Beaumont Ozen and Jessica Flax of Pearland both qualified for the 100m hurdles.
The Pearland Lady Oilers 4X100 relay team also earned a spot in the finals, as did the Houston Worthing Lady relay team.
Here are times and results for other Houston area finals qualifying participants.
Girls 4X200:
FB Marshall 1:39.38q
Houston Westbury 1:40.88q
Girls 4X400:
FB Marshall 3:51.79q
Houston Westbury 3:52.57q
Houston Westside 3:54.21q
In the boy’s 100m Galveston Ball’s Terrell Mc Neil took second place in prelims with a time of 10.41 seconds and Texas City’s Whitney Prevost earned a spot in the finals with a time of 10.55 seconds. In the Division I boys 100m, Episcopal’s Bryan Miller earned a spot in the finals with a time of 10.72 seconds.
Stratford’s Dylan Roberts earned sixth place in the 1600m run and CJ Jessett of Seven Lakes earned seventh place in the 3200m run.
Westside’s Alonzo Adams qualified for the finals of the Division II 110m hurdles with a time of 14.39 seconds.
Both Baytown Sterling’s and Cy-Falls’ 4X400 teams will advance to the division II finals with a 4th and 7th place finish in the prelims.
4X800
Hou Lamar (4th in prelims) 8:01.46
1) Tyson Braziel 11 2) David Cook 11
3) Malex Wilson 11 4) Julius Michael 12
1600 Sprint Medley Relay
Hou Cypress Falls (1st in prelims) 3:28.17
1) Dedrick Johnson 11 2) Jack Freeman 12
3) Ceasar Slade 12 4) Blake Shaw 11
Hou Lamar (4th in prelims) 3:33.07
1) Julius Michael 12 2) Malex Wilson 11
3) Corey Marshall 12 4) Alvin Johnson 11
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