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USVI track stars take top honors

May 10--Leon Hunt had only one chance left, and he made the most of it.

On his final long jump attempt, the Florida A&M University senior lept 7.70 meters, which was just enough to win the long jump finals at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships last weekend in Greensboro, N.C.

Hunt was one of three U.S. Virgin Islands athletes to earn first-place medals at the conference finals as six V.I. athletes from five different schools were in action. Leslie Murray, a Delaware State junior, won the 400-meter hurdles, and Morgan State junior Calvin Dascent took top honors in the 200- meter sprint.

"The second-place guy jumped right before me, so on my last jump, I knew it was time to see what I was all about," said Hunt, who holds the V.I. national record for the long jump and is hoping to represent the territory at the Pan American Games in October. "It was a very tight finish."

Norfolk State sophomore Darris Shelton also had a leap of 7.70, so it all came down to each athlete's second-best jump as Hunt's 7.50 was nine centimeters better than second-place Shelton.

"The guy that jumped after me was only centimeter below me," Hunt said about North Carolina A&T freshman Rashard Hayes. Hunt and Murray also won gold medals at the MEAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in February.

In the 400 meter hurdles finals Saturday, Murray smoked the race in 50.29 seconds to set a new personal best. He also anchored his school's 1,600 meter relay team, which finished first with a time of 3:08.42.

Dascent took first in the 200 meter sprint (20.66) and second in the 400 meter run (46.38), which both were personal best times. According to the V.I. Track Federation, Dascent's 200-meter time qualified him for the Central American and Caribbean Track and Field Championships, the World University Games, the IAAF World Championships and the Pan American Games.

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