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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Quartet wins in year's best time at Mt. San Antonio event
Saturday April 19, 2003
WALNUT, Calif. (AP) Jerome Avery, Coby Miller, Avery Armstrong
and J.J. Johnson ran the fastest time in a major track competition
so far this year as they won the 4-by-100 relay Saturday at the
45th annual Mt. San Antonio College Relays.
The quartet, competing as the United States national red team,
won the event in 38.52 seconds.
HSI, which featured Olympic medalists Maurice Greene and Ato
Boldon, finished second at 38.75.
``It takes great handoffs to win, and I think our sticks
could've run better,'' said Greene, HSI's anchor and a gold
medalist for the United States in the event at the 2000 Olympics.
In the women's 200, California's Allyson Felix set a national
high school record by winning the invitational event in 22.51.
Felix, a senior at Los Angeles Baptist High School, broke the
mark of 22.58 set by Marion Jones at the 1992 United States Olympic
trials.
In other events:
Former Tennessee runner Kelli White tied the fastest time in
the world this year in the women's 100, 10.97 seconds. White won a
bronze medal in the 200 and a gold medal in the 4-by-100 relay at
the 2001 world championships.
Greene ran the second-fastest time in the world in the men's
200 this year, 20.16.
Former Olympic and world champion Allen Johnson, a late
addition in the men's 110 hurdles, took the event in 13.42.
Boldon, a silver medalist in the 100 at the 2000 Olympics,
pulled up after 40 meters of Saturday's 100 and failed to finish.
Boldon left the field in a motorized cart.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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