The Tribune

THE UB Mingoes picked up three wins and had a strong showing at the inaugural Red-Line Athletics track meet over the weekend.

Kendrick Thompson won two events - open men’s long jump and open men’s 400 metres - and Romica Josey won the open women’s 400m.

Thompson won the long jump by two centimetres just outperforming Ken Mullings.

Thompson’s best jump was 7.07m (23 feet - 2 ¼ inches) which just outmatched Mulling’s best jump of 7.05m (23 feet – 1 ½ inches.)

Thompson also led the one-two punch for the Mingoes in the 400m event. He won the event in 49.20 seconds and Donya Roberts took second in 49.65.

“I’ve been working on a lot of speed lately,” Roberts said. “I still kind of fell short and now I have to work more on my finish because after the 350 metre mark I didn’t have anything left at that point. So I have a lot of work to do but I felt good nonetheless about the race.”

Josey picked up a win in the open women’s 400m event. She says she struggled the last quarter of the race but still picked up the win in 1:01.69.

“I was a little fatigued and I need to get more rest,” Josey said.

“Besides that I understand what I need to do in my next race because I saw what went wrong and so I’m going to focus on fixing those things. I had a good start and a good 300 metres but after that my body just shut down. And I just had to hold on to finish the race.”

Keianno Rolle took second in the open triple jump with a best jump of 14.51 metres (50 feet 10 and-a-half inches) which was also a personal best. “I came out feeling good and the weather was nice,” he said.

“I gave it my all out there today and that paid off with the personal best. I was excited by that,” he added.

In the under-20 girls’ 100, Mingoes sprinter Paige Stuart took seventh in 12.82.

Stuart had to fight through a tough headwind of 2.2 metres per second in her race.