Final Results
FAIRFAX, Va. – Two meets into championship season and George Mason's women's 4x400-meter relay team has two gold medals.
The Patriots captured the 4x400-meter relay title on Sunday to cap off the 2016 ECAC & IC4A Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J.
Sommer Sharpe, Sarah Moore, Ashley Lucas and Sharon Dorsey won the 4x400 with a time of 3:42.38 – two seconds faster than second-place VCU. The Patriots also seized the gold medal in the 4x400 last weekend at the Atlantic 10 Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships with Sharpe, Moore, Dorsey and Caela Williams.
At the ECAC/IC4As, Sharpe also placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.32. In the high jump, two-time A-10 outdoor champ Talisha Watts tied for fourth, jumping 1.70 meters (5 feet, seven inches). Fellow two-time A-10 outdoor champ Lindsay Horton tied for sixth in the pole vault, clearing 3.76 meters (12 feet, four inches).
On the men's side, Angel Coburn, Evander Pierre, Xavier King Jr. and Rico Gomez took third in the 4x400 with a time of 3:10.06. After winning gold at the A-10 Championship last weekend, the 4x100-meter relay team of Ayo Raymond, Junias Agyei, Gomez and Bernard Freeman finished third with a time of 40.46.
Raymond finished fifth in the 100-meter dash after winning the A-10 crown the week before. He came in with a time of 10.657 seconds – four milliseconds behind fourth-place finisher Delano Davis of LIU Brooklyn.
John Seals tied for fifth in the high jump with a leap of 2.03 meters (6 feet, eight inches). Steven Flynn took eighth in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:56.31. The 4x800-meter relay team of Brent Coulter, Nathan Schulte, Kenneth Valva and Stuart Lampen-Crowell finished in eighth in 8:06.05.
In the team results, the men finished in 13th with 21.5 points while the women were 16th with 22 points.
The Patriots will now wait to find out later this week if any individuals or relay teams have qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary on May 26-28 in Jacksonville, Fla.