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By Steve Carpenter
HCC Sports Information Director
Thursday, May 20, 2009
Iowa Central’s A.G.
Bradford did nothing to tarnish her No. 1 Heptathlon ranking during
the first day of competition Thursday at the 2009 NJCAA Heptathlon
championship at Gowans Stadium.
Through four of
seven events, Bradford has opened up a 100-point lead over the
field. She scored 3,287 points on Day 1. South Plains Colleen Felix
was second with 3,187 points. Mesa’s Samantha Henderson was third
with 3,048 points.
The final three
events – Long jump, javelin and 800 meters – will be on Friday
Bradford opened the
multi-event competition with a victory in the 100-meter hurdles,
posing a time of 14.22 seconds. She backed that up by winning the
long jump with a top leap of 5 feet, 10.5 inches.
Bradford then
finished seventh in the shot put at 31-10.25. She closed out the day
by winning the 200 meters in 25.25 seconds.
South Plains’
Colleen Felix was the only other heptathlon event winner on
Thursday, taking the shot put with a top throw of 42-0.75.
Two individual
national champions were crowned on Thursday.
Central Arizona’s
Rose Tanui breezed to victory in the women’s 10,000 meters. Tanui
posted a time of 36:27.26. She lapped the entire field with the
exception of national runner-up Leah Thompson of Butler Community
College, who ran a time of 36:50.81.
Rend Lake’s Ashley
Holmes dominated in the women’s discus, wining with a distance of
158-2.
Competition
continues through Saturday. |
