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Track Tigers Earn Over A Dozen Medals At SIAC Championship

Chance Leads SSU With Four Gold Medals

Savannah State's Kayla Chance (center) poses on the podium at the 2023 SIAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship after winning gold. [Photo courtesy SIAC]


ATLANTA, Ga.– The Savannah State men's and women's outdoor track and field teams earned 15 medals and sent 10 student-athletes to the podium at the 2023 Cricket Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Outdoor Track & Field Championship this weekend.
 
The Lady Tigers finished third overall in the team standings with 102 points while the Tigers finished fourth overall with 65 points. This year's conference championship was hosted by Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia April 27-April 29.
 
"I think the team did a great job," Head Track and Field Coach Ted Whitaker said. "We lost a lot of kids during the year for a lot of reasons. If we had kept the kids, we would have finished higher. Our kids performed extremely well though. I was very pleased with how they did." 
 
Leading Savannah State on the track was long-distance star Kayla Chance who nabbed four gold medals, decimating conference foes in the long-distance events.
 
Chance won the 800m run with a time of 2:20.75 and placed first in the preliminaries with a time of 2:24.01. She won the 1500m with a 4:57.18 and won the preliminaries with a 5:09.71.
 
Chance won the 3000m Steeplechase with a time of 12:10.67 and the 5000m with a time of 19:20.07 for her fourth gold medal. Chance, a two-time SIAC Cross Country Champion, holds five school records in long-distance events.
 
Ravyn Cystrunk made two trips to the podium. Cystrunk finished second in the 200m final, earning silver with a time of 24.98. She finished third in the prelims, running a 25.51. She earned bronze in the 400m finals with a time of 55.82. She finished first in the prelims of the event with a 56.43.
 
Sadrea Mabry earned two gold medals in the field events. Mabry won the long jump with a 5.56m effort. She won the triple jump with a 12.12m effort.
 
Teammate Da'Alilyah Johnson earned silver in the triple jump, recording an 11.10m jump. Kennedy Spears earned silver in the high jump with a 1.65m effort.
 
Gallery: (4-29-2023) 2023 SIAC Track & Field Championship

For the men, Winfred Porter won bronze in the 100m run, finishing with a 10.77. He finished second in the prelims with a 10.61. He missed the podium by two tenths of a second in the 200m, running a 21.65 for a fourth place finish—bested by a 21.63 finish from Tuskegee's Dennis Bailey.
 
The relay team of Dominique Bailey, Yastremski Johnson, Solomon Mitchell and Porter earned bronze in the 4x100m relay race finishing with a 41.53.
 
Bailey earned a silver medal in the decathlon, earning a total of 5154 points. Mitchell earned bronze in the same event with 4923 points.
 
In the field, Dwayne Chenault earned bronze in the triple jump, recording a 13.83m effort. Aidan Holliman finished just behind him with a 12.56. Holliman finished fourth in the high jump with a 2.00m effort.
 
Benedict won both the men's and women's SIAC Championships. The women won with 190 total points while the Benedict men won with 215.5 points.
 
Clark Atlanta finished second on the women's side. Albany State finished fourth followed by Fort Valley State. Morehouse finished second on the men's side followed by Albany State. Spring Hill finished fifth on the men's side.
 
The Savannah State men's and women's outdoor track and field teams conclude a very successful season that saw a number of new school records, gold medals, and tons of personal best records.
 
Currently, Porter has earned a chance at participating in the NCAA Division II Championships in two events later in May. He is nationally ranked No. 18 in the 100m and No. 27 in the 200m, receiving NCAA provisional marks for both.
 
Savannah State's Dominique Bailey (right) and Solomon Mitchell (left) pose on the podium after winning medals in the Decathlon event at the 2023 SIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship [Photo courtesy SIAC]

 
Savannah State's Sadrea Mabry (center) and Da'Alilyah Johnson (left) pose after winning medals in the triple jump at the 2023 SIAC Track & Field Championship.
[Photo courtesy SIAC]

MEN
Event
Name | Place, Time/Distance
 
100m Final
Winfred Porter | 3, 10.77
 
100m Prelim
Winfred Porter | 2, 10.61
Yastremski Johnson | 13, 11.08
Antonio Russell | 17, 11.13

200m Final
Winfred Porter | 4, 21.65
 
200m Prelim
Winfred Porter | 4, 22.09
Yastremski Johnson | 20, 23.07

800m Prelim
Alex Loyd | 13, 2:02.84
 
3000m Steeplechase
Erik Roberts | 8, 11:26.28
Corey Myles | 9, 11:29.28
 
5000m
Erik Roberts | 11, 17:40.00

110m Hurdles Prelims
Nyzaveon Thompson | 18, 20.06
 
4x100 Relay Final
Dominique Bailey, Yastremski Johnson, Solomon Mitchell, Winfred Porter | 3, 41.53
 
4x100 Relay Prelim
Dominique Bailey, Yastremski Johnson, Solomon Mitchell, Winfred Porter | 5, 42.15

High Jump
Aidan Holliman | 4, 2.00m
Dominique Bailey | 7, 1.80m
 
Long Jump
Dwayne Chenault | 5, 6.60m
Solomon Mitchell | 14, 6.34m
Dominique Bailey | 15. 6.33m
 
Triple Jump
Dwayne Chenault | 3, 13.83m
Aidan Holliman | 4, 13.56m
Mitchell Solomon | 5, 13.50m

Shot Put
Tony Roundtree | 5, 13.77m
Evan Guyton | 18, 11.20m

Decathlon
Dominique Bailey | 2, 5154
[100m 11.53; Long Jump 6.40m; Shot Put 7.92m; High Jump 1.77m; 400m 52.68; 110m Hurdles 19.11; Discuss 25.96m; Pole Vault 2.74m; Javelin 38.70; 1500m 5:02.37]
 
Solomon Mitchell | 3, 4923
[100m 11.37; Long Jump 6.41m; Shot Put 10.01m; High Jump 1.65m; 400m 52.94; 110m Hurdles 17.10; Discuss 20.79m; Pole Vault 2.29m; Javelin 33.82m; 1500m 5:42.17]

Discuss
Evan Guyton | 11, 37.22m
 
WOMEN

100m Final
Teauna Thomas | 6, 12.89

100m Prelim
Teauna Thomas | 6, 12.51
Delilyah Pelham | 11, 12.67

200m Final
Ravyn Cystrunk | 2, 24.98
 
200m Prelims
Ravyn Cystrunk | 3, 25.51
Kinya Jackson | 27, 27.96
Kennedi Hall | 32, 29.06

400m Final
Ravyn Cystrunk | 3, 55.82
 
400m Prelims
Ravyn Cystrunk | 1, 56.43
 
800m Final
Kayla Chance | 1, 2:20.75
 
800m Prelims
Kayla Chance | 1, 2:24.01

1500m Final
Kayla Chance | 1, 4:57.18
 
1500m Prelim
Kayla Chance | 1, 5:09.71
 
3000m Steeplechase Final
Kayla Chance | 1, 12:10.67

5000m
Kayla Chance | 1, 19:20.07

100m Hurdles Final
Jeainna Bryant | 8, 16.13

100m Hurdles Prelims
Jeainna Bryant | 7, 15.40

4x100m Relay Final
Jeainna Bryant, Ravyn Cystrunk, Sadrea Mabry Delilyah Pelham | 4, 47.58
 
4x100m Relay Prelims
Jeainna Bryant, Ravyn Cystrunk, Sadrea Mabry Delilyah Pelham | 2, 48.07

4x400m Relay Prelims
Jeainna Bryant, Ravyn Cystrunk, Sadrea Mabry Delilyah Pelham | 8, 4:14.59

High Jump 
Kennedy Spears | 2, 1.65m
Ky'Leigha Robinson | 9, 1.45m

Long Jump
Sadrea Mabry | 1, 5.65m
 
Triple Jump
Sadrea Mabry | 1, 12.12m
Da'Alilyah Johnson | 2, 11.10m
Kennedy Spears | 10, 10.35m
 
 
 
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Players Mentioned

Jeainna Bryant

Jeainna Bryant

5' 3"
Freshman
Kayla Chance

Kayla Chance

5' 2"
Senior
Ravyn Cystrunk

Ravyn Cystrunk

5' 6"
Junior
Kennedi Hall

Kennedi Hall

5' 6"
Sophomore
Kinya Jackson

Kinya Jackson

5' 10"
Junior
Sadrea Mabry

Sadrea Mabry

5' 6"
Junior
Delilyah Pelham

Delilyah Pelham

5' 4"
Sophomore
Kennedy Spears

Kennedy Spears

5' 8"
Sophomore
Teauna Thomas

Teauna Thomas

5' 5"
Junior
Dominique Bailey

Dominique Bailey

5' 7"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Jeainna Bryant

Jeainna Bryant

5' 3"
Freshman
Kayla Chance

Kayla Chance

5' 2"
Senior
Ravyn Cystrunk

Ravyn Cystrunk

5' 6"
Junior
Kennedi Hall

Kennedi Hall

5' 6"
Sophomore
Kinya Jackson

Kinya Jackson

5' 10"
Junior
Sadrea Mabry

Sadrea Mabry

5' 6"
Junior
Delilyah Pelham

Delilyah Pelham

5' 4"
Sophomore
Kennedy Spears

Kennedy Spears

5' 8"
Sophomore
Teauna Thomas

Teauna Thomas

5' 5"
Junior
Dominique Bailey

Dominique Bailey

5' 7"
Freshman