TRACK AND FIELD: FOCUS IS NOW NATIONAL PRIMM, ANDERSON FACE TOUGH TESTS.Byline: KIRBY LEE Special to the Daily News GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Half-miler Cory Primm of Westlake High and hurdler Jeshua Anderson of Taft High of Woodland Hills passed big tests to win state titles two weeks ago. The two seniors figure to face a bigger challenge in the Nike Outdoor Nationals today at North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. A&T's Aggie Stadium There are several stadiums that are associated with the name Aggie Stadium:
The UCLA-bound Primm, who won his second state 800-meter title in a row at the State meet in Sacramento on June 2, had been the national leader in the in the two-lap event for much of the season at 1:49.50. But East Forsyth High junior Dylan Ferris ran 1:49.27 last weekend to break the all-time North Carolina record and overtake o·ver·take tr.v. o·ver·took , o·ver·tak·en , o·ver·tak·ing, o·ver·takes 1. a. To catch up with; draw even or level with. b. To pass after catching up with. 2. Primm for the nation's No. 1 spot. Primm beat Ferris in the Arcadia Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. en route to his then nation-leading mark after Ferris faded to fourth after leading with 200 meters to go. The 800 will have three of the top four runners in the country with Ferris, Primm and James Gilreath of Tennessee (1:50.12). The 400-meter hurdles will renew the rivalry Rivalry Robbery (See THIEVERY.) Rudeness (See COARSENESS.) Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane bully and show-off compete for Katrina’s hand. [Am. Lit. between Anderson and Riverside J.W. North sophomore Reggie Wyatt. The race will be a rematch REMATCH Cardiology Clinical trials–Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance Therapy as an alternative in Congestive Heart failure–related to use of a portable, electric left ventricular-assist system–LVAS–eg, HeartMate® of the 300-meter hurlde state final between Anderson and Wyatt. Anderson timed 35.28 to break a 22-year-old national record by four- hundredths of a second with Wyatt in second in a national sophomore record 35.90 in the fastest 1-2 finish in the 300 hurdles in state meet history. It remains to be seen how the additional distance and three more hurdles in the 400 hurdles -- an event not contested in high school in California -- will affect Anderson and Wyatt. Anderson and Wyatt will run against an experienced field that includes the top five on the national yearly list, including Georgian William Wynne, a junior from McEachern of Powder Springs, who has the nation's fastest time at 51.65. In the hammer, Chaminade of West Hills sophomore Conor McCullough, who holds the national ninth- and 10th-grade class records, will face national record holder Walter Henning of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . A national girls' 1,600-meter sprint medley med·ley n. pl. med·leys 1. An often jumbled assortment; a mixture: "That night he dreamed he was traveling in a foreign country, only it seemed to be a medley of all the countries he'd ever been to and relay by Maryland's Eleanor Roosevelt highlighted Friday's competition. The team of Afia Charles (200), Doris Anyanwu (200), Takecia Jameson (400) and Marika Walker (800) timed 3:51.80 to break the meet and national record of 3:52.22 by Philadelphia West Catholic in 2004. A Harvard-Westlake of Studio City team of senior Cara Bickers, sophomores Nicole Sands and Atira Richards and junior Laura Meadors won its heat in 4:11.79. In the 4x100 preliminaries, Bickers, Sands and Richards teamed with freshman Caroline Hartig to place sixth in their heat in 50.54. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Harvard-Westlake's Nicole Sands takes a handoff Switching a cellular phone transmission from one cell to another as a mobile user moves into a new cellular area. The switch takes place in about a quarter of a second so that the caller is generally unaware of it. from teammate Cara Bickers in the 1,600-meter sprint medley relay preliminaries at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C. Kirby Lee/Special to the Daily News |
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