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Wharton's success continues at Florida Relays

By BRIAN McLAUGHLIN

© St. Petersburg Times, published April 1, 2001

GAINESVILLE -- Wharton continued its success at the Florida Relays on Saturday, proving that its preliminary results on Friday weren't a fluke.

The Wildcats' boys 4x400 relay team, which won the preliminaries, took second place on Saturday in the finals in 3:16.72. Dwight Ellick, the anchor runner, had to make up a lot of ground just to contend for second.

The team's winning preliminary time Friday was 3:20.85.

Ellick -- Wharton's star sprinter who is currently the state's top 200-meter runner with his time of 21.49 posted earlier this year -- took second place in the 100-meter finals in 10.95.

Travarious Bain of Miami Northwestern won the event in 10.87.

Bain took fourth place last year at the Class 4A state meet.

Wharton's Kendra Smith took third in the triple jump, leaping 38 feet, 11/4 inches. In the boys high jump, the Wildcats' Alex Harris tied Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas' Jomo Fagan for third at 6 feet, 4 inches.

Hollywood McArthur's Akin Francis won the high jump at 6-4, but won on fewer attempts.

Berkeley Prep's Rolf Steier took second in the mile (4:17.29) behind the state's top-ranked miler coming into the relays in Delray Beach Atlantic's John Jefferson, who won the 1600 in a time of 4:14.39.

Hillsborough's Aminah Bilal solidified her place among the state's elite sprinters, taking third in the 100-meters behind St. Thomas Aquinas' Sanya Richards and Homestead's Margo Jester. Bilal ran the race in 12.34, while Richards' winning time was 11.67. Bilal took eighth at the Class 4A state meet last year in the 100, and sixth in the 200.

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