FSU’s Ewers & Seymour, UVA’s Scott, VT’s Bajnok earn MVP honors

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (theACC.com) – The Virginia Tech men overcame a 17-point final day deficit, while the Florida State women pulled away from the field to secure team titles as the 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference Outdoor Track Championships concluded Saturday in a downpour at Lannigan Field.

The ACC Men’s Outdoor Track and Field Championship is the fourth for Virginia Tech under veteran coach Dave Cianelli, three of which have come in the last four seasons. The Hokies also earned a sweep of 2019 ACC men’s track and field titles after sharing the Indoor trophy with Florida State after the teams tied for first place at Blacksburg in February.

Victories by Miles Green in the 400-meter hurdles, freshman Jacory Patterson in the 400 meters and Bashir Mosavel-Lo in the 800 were among the Saturday highlights for the Hokies, who began the day in second place trailing rival Virginia 77-60.

Florida State claimed its fifth ACC women’s outdoor championship and its fourth under current head coach Bob Braman. The Seminoles previously led the women’s field in 2000, 2009, 2014 and 2016.

FSU held just a two-point lead in a tight women’s field entering Saturday’s closing event, but pulled away behind first-place finishes by meet Women’s Track MVP Ka’Tia Seymour in the 100 and 200 meters and podium finishes in a number of other events.

Please see the link below for complete results of the 2019 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships:
 https://theacc.co/otf19results

The Virginia Tech men led with 123 team points, while Virginia took second place with 117. Florida State placed third with 102.5. Pitt totaled 63 points, and Clemson had 52.5 to round out the top five.


The Seminole women finished with 134 points, well ahead of second-place Miami’s 92.5. Virginia held third place with 84. Virginia Tech placed fourth with 77, while Clemson had 69.5.

The 134 points by Florida State’s women were the most by in the ACC Outdoor Championship since the conference expanded to 15 teams, as was the Seminoles’ 41.5 margin of victory.

Florida State sprinter Andre Ewers earned ACC Championship Men’s Track MVP honors for the second consecutive year after racing to gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters. Virginia junior Jordan Scott, who placed first in the long jump on Thursday and then set a new ACC record in the men’s triple jump on Saturday, took the Men’s Field MVP.

Seymour earned 22 points for the Seminoles in earning women’s track MVP laurels. Virginia Tech junior Eszter Bajnok, who earned a meet-leading 13 field points in a pair of jumping events, earned the Women’s Field MVP.

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A capsule look at Saturday’s action by event:

WOMEN’S 4x100 RELAY
Miami successfully defended its 4x100 relay title with a run of 44 seconds flat. Carolyn Brown, Alfreda Steele and Symone Mason set the table for anchor Tiara McMinn. The Hurricanes edged Florida State (44.02) and Clemson (44.43).
 
MEN’S 4x100 RELAY
The Florida State team of Bryand Rincher, Jhevaughn Matherson, Michael Timpson and Andre Ewers took the gold with winning time of 39.28. Virginia Tech followed at 39.46, and Miami took the bronze at 40 seconds flat.

WOMEN’S 1500
Rachel Pocratsky took home the gold medal for the second consecutive year with a time of 4:18.42, just ahead of teammate Sarah Edwards (4:18.91) and Florida State’s Maudie Skyring (4:19.99). It marked the third consecutive ACC women’s 1500 title for Virginia Tech, as Hanna Green’s gold medal in 2017 preceded Pocratsky’s two-year run.
 
MEN’S 1500
Notre Dame’s Yared Nuguse pulled away from a competitive field to win the men’s 1500 in 3:41.34. Pitt’s Nate Sloan (3:43.05) took the silver medal, while Boston College’s Ian Ritchie (3:44.34) took home the bronze.
 
WOMEN’S 100m HURDLES
In a showdown between several of the nation’s elite women’s hurdlers, Florida State junior Cortney Jones posted a gold medal time of 12.72, edging Georgia Tech’s Jeanine Williams by the smallest of fractions. NC State senior Gabrielle Cunningham took the bronze medal at 13.31.
 
MEN’S 110m HURDLES
Louisville senior Martice Moore took posted a gold medal time of 13.90 on the men’s 110-meter hurdles. Pitt sophomore Daveon Finley was the silver medalist as he finished at 14.07, just ahead of Syracuse senior Richard Floyd.
 
WOMEN’S 400 METERS
Running on her home track, Virginia junior Anna Jefferson took home the gold in the 400 meters in 52.42. She led silver medalist Brittny Ellis of Miami (52.52) and Janae Caldwell of Florida State (53.62). The times were season best for all three runners.
 
MEN’S 400 METERS
After winning the men’s indoor men’s 400 meters in February, Virginia Tech freshman Jacory Patterson made it an event sweep with his winning time of 45.60 on Saturday. North Carolina sophomore Isaiah Palmer followed with a personal best 45.92, and Florida State sophomore Kyle Fearrington took the bronze with a time of 46.66.
 
WOMEN’S 100 METERS
Just as the rain began to come down hard at Lannigan Field, Florida State sophomore Ka’Tia Seymour raced to her second consecutive ACC gold medal in the women’s 100 with a meet and facility record time of 11.14. Clemson junior Rebekah Smith took the silver at 11.31, and Virginia sophomore Halle Hazzard (11.36) was the bronze medal winner.
 
MEN’S 100 METERS
With a season-best and facility-record time of 10.06, Florida State senior Andre Ewers blazed to a first-place finish in the men’s 100 for the second straight year. Ewers placed ahead of Miami junior Raheem Chambers (10.10) and teammate Bryand Rincher (10.21).
 
WOMEN’S 800 METERS
Virginia Tech’s Pocratsky pulled off the women’s 1500/800 double gold medal for the second consecutive year, placing first in the latter event with a season best time of 2:04.52. Clemson junior Andrea Foster followed at 2:06.15, and Miami sophomore Kayla Johnson took third place at 2:06.24.
 
MEN’S 800 METERS
Virginia Tech sophomore Bashir Mosavel-Lo took the gold medal with a time of 1:49.90, while Duke junior Matt Wisner claimed the silver at 1:50.34. Georgia Tech senior Avery Bartlett checked in at 1:50.68 to take the bronze.
 
WOMEN’S 400m HURDLES
Virginia junior Andrenette Knight led the women’s 400 hurdles field at 58.16. Miami senior Anna Runia took the silver at 58.31, while Duke sophomore Lauren Hoffman was next at 58.33.
 
MEN’S 400m HURDLES
Virginia Tech surged in front in the team scoring as freshman Miles Green took the gold medal in the men’s 400-meter hurdles at 50.32. Louisville’s Martice Moore – the 110-meter gold medalist – took the silver at 50.96, and Miami’s McKinly Brown followed at 51 seconds even. Each of the top three times was a personal best.
 
WOMEN’S 200 METERS
Make it a double-gold medal for Florida State’s Ka’Tia Seymour, who set the pace in the women’s 200 meters at 23.12. Fellow FSU sophomore Jayla Kirkland placed second at 23.55 to further solidify the Seminoles’ team lead. Virginia’s Anna Jefferson took the bronze at 23.61.
 
MEN’S 200 METERS
Florida State’s Andre Ewers claimed his second gold medal of the day and set his second facility record of the day with a first-place finish of 20.31. Virginia Tech’s Patterson followed at 20.71, and Clemson’s Marcus Parker took home the bronze at 20.94.
 
WOMEN’S 5000 METERS
Syracuse senior Paige Stoner claimed her second gold medal in less than 48 hours. Following a first-place finish in Friday night’s women’s 3K Steeplechase on Friday night, Stoner took the 5,000 meters on Saturday afternoon with a winning time of 16:05.83. Notre Dame’s Rachel DaDamio followed at 16:07.37, and NC State’s Dominique Clairmonte was bronze medalist at 16:07.86.
 
MEN’S 5,000 METERS
Syracuse junior Iliass Aouani also emerged a double winner, adding the men’s 5K gold medal to the 10K he collected on Thursday night. Aouani took the 5K on Saturday with a time of 14:00.38, just ahead of Wake Forest freshman Zach Facioni’s 14:01.19 finish. Notre Dame sophomore Andrew Alexander won the bronze in 14:01.48. Aouani’s win, following back-to-back titles by former Orange All-American Justyn Knight, kept the ACC men’s 5k gold medal in Syracuse for the third straight year.
 
4x400 RELAYS
The North Carolina foursome of Onyedikachi Ohia-Enyia, Isaiah Palmer, Ari Cogdell and Ryan Saint-Germain posted the Tar Heels’ sixth gold medal in the men’s 4x400 relay in the past six seasons.
Keyed by a 53:15 split by Kamryn McIntosh on the anchor leg, the Clemson women wrapped up the competition with a winning time of 3:36.12. Miami placed second at 3:36.91, followed by Pitt at 3:38.18.
 
MEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
Virginia junior Jordan Scott broke three standing records – two of which were his own – in claiming the gold medal in the men’s triple jump. Scott reached 17.08 meters (56-0.5) on his first attempt to shatter his previous ACC overall and Lannigan Field facility mark of 17.07 meters, as well as the meet record of 16.62 meters set by Georgia Tech’s Alphonso Jordan in 2010. Florida State grabbed both the silver and the bronze in event on Saturday, with Armani Wallace placing second and Jacore Irving third.
Scott’s final attempt of the day produced a mark of 17.37m (57-0), but did not officially count because it was wind-aided. While it will still count as the nation’s leading-mark and is the current No. 3 time in the world this year, it will not be entered in the ACC or Lannigan Field record books.
 
WOMEN’S HIGH JUMP
North Carolina junior Nicole Greene added another entry to her list of records, taking the women’s high jump with a facility record 1.88m (6-2). Florida State junior Eleonora Omoregie followed at 1.70 meters, and Louisville’s Alivia Ash of Louisville claimed the bronze.
 
WOMEN’S TRIPLE JUMP
Georgia Tech’s Bria Matthews, who claimed the ACC women’s triple jump as a freshman in 2016, continued her full-circle comeback from injury with a personal best of 13.77 meters (45-2.25) to win the gold medal on Saturday. Defending champion Eszter Bajnok of Virginia Tech followed with her personal best of 13.66 meters, and Virginia senior Kelly McKee was next at 13.51m.
 
MEN’S DISCUS
Clemson freshman Roje Stona, who entered Saturday’s competition ranked fifth in the men’s discus, took home the gold in his first ACC Championship with a throw of 58.44 (191-9) on his fourth attempt. Virginia senior Nace Plesko’s personal best of 54.77 meters was good for second place, and Clemson junior Grant Voeks was third with a throw of 54.16 meters.
 
WOMEN’S DISCUS
Florida State junior Shanice Love continued her stellar junior year with a winning throw of 58.83m (193-0). Miami sophomore Debbie Ajagbe took the silver at 52.55 meters, followed by Hurricane teammate Zakiya Rashid (52.40).