The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorset@tribunemedia.net

SEVERAL of the country’s top junior college track and field athletes took part in their respective national championships this week.

The NJCAA Division I Outdoor Championships hosted at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, came to a close last night as a number of Bahamians reached the finals but finished just short of a top three finish.

Leading the group was Western Texas standout Ian Kerr who reached finals in the 100m and 200m.

Kerr entered the prelims with a season’s leading time in the event at 10.15 seconds and finished third in heat three in 10.45 to qualify for the final. In the final he finished seventh in 10.42.

Kerr set the mark of 10.15, a new school record and NJCAA leading mark, earlier this month at the Texas Tech Track Meet.

He entered ranked No.10 in the 200m with a seed time of 20.96 and ran to a second place finish in heat one with a time of 20.97. In the final he finished fifth in 20.71.

His 4x100m team finished fifth in heat two in 40.81 and did not qualify for the final.

It was the second consecutive year that Kerr qualified for NJCAA nationals in the indoor and outdoor 100 and 200m events. In 2015, he was also a member of the 1,600-metre relay national championship team.

Last fall, Kerr signed a letter of intent to join the University of Texas Longhorns in a class that enters Austin, Texas in the Fall 2016 ranked No. 1 in the nation in six events along with seven more Top Five’s and three more events ranked in the Top 20.

Cliff Resias, of Iowa Western, entered the 100m ranked No.8 with a time of 10.30, turned in last week at the NJCAA Region XI Outdoor Championships. He ran the prelims in 10.59 secs and finished fourth in heat two, unale to qualify.

Anthony Adderley of the Barton Community College Cougars is ranked at No.11 in the 200m with a time of 21.00. He finished second in heat three in 21.43 secs and finished 10th overall.

He ran the third leg of his 4x100m team that finished fourth in the final 40.57 secs He ran the opening leg of the 4x400m and his team finished seventh in 3:19.52 secs.

Adderley finished seventh in the 200m at the NJCAA Indoor Championships in March.

Mesha Newbold, competing for Iowa Central, ran the prelims in 1:02.60 secs to win heat four and qualify for the final. She finished fourth in the final in 1:02.98 secs

Newbold already achieved All-American honours during the indoor season in the 60m hurdles and distance medley relay.

Newbold’s Iowa Central team won the women’s division with 148 points, with New Mexico Junior College, Central Arizona and Monroe College rounding out the top four.

South Plain College finished first among men Iowa Central finished second while Resais and Iowa Western finished third Barton County finished fifth and Western Texas finished at No.24.