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LANDOVER, Md. – The Norfolk State men's track team captured its fourth consecutive MEAC Indoor Championship and seventh straight conference title in all on Saturday afternoon at the Prince George's Sports & Learning Complex.
The Spartan men tallied 150 points. Morgan State was second with 103.
Junior Marlon Woods (Norfolk, Va.) was named MEAC Men's Indoor Most Outstanding Performer, with a men's meet-high 30 points. He had two of the Spartans' four first-place finishes on Saturday. Woods won his third straight MEAC indoor high jump title by clearing 6 feet, 10 ¾ inches. Counting his two outdoor conference titles, Woods has now won all five MEAC high jump titles in his career.
Woods also won the triple jump title, with an NCAA provisional qualifying jump of 51 feet. Junior Corey Vinston (Hampton, Va.) also jumped 51 feet, but finished second by virtue of not jumping in the finals. Vinston was also fourth in the 60 meters (6.75 seconds) for a total of 23 points by himself.
Sophomore Aramis Massenburg (Ettrick, Va.) pulled off a mild upset in the 60 hurdles to win his first conference championship. He ran a time of 7.89 seconds, edging out defending champion Ronnie Ash of Bethune-Cookman by .06.
Senior Dominic Luka (Marietta, N.Y.) won the men's 3,000 meters in a meet-record time of 8:53.01, shaving more than six seconds off the old record held by Coppin State's Courtney Bennett.
Other top finishes on Saturday included sophomore Josef Tessema (Springfield, Va.) placing a close second in the men's mile run, running 4:21.86. He was just edged out at the finish line by Hampton's David Kamani (4:21.77).
Freshman Darris Shelton (Hampton, Va.) also made a solid showing in his first conference championship meet, placing fourth in the heptathlon. He scored 4,408 points.
"We did what I expected us to do," said NSU head coach Kenneth Giles, who was named MEAC Most Outstanding Coach for the 15th time. "We knew what to expect out of our veterans, especially our seniors like Luka, Keenan Harris and Trayman Hill (who never lost a MEAC indoor meet). But this is the youngest team I've ever coached, and our young guys really stepped up this weekend."
