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Quartet wins in year's best time at Mt. San Antonio event
Saturday April 19, 2003WALNUT, 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.
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