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Ristananna’s brilliant runs secure golden double for Edwin Allen

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Published: Saturday | April 25, 2009 

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania:

Edwin Allen High School turned in a magnificent display to record double victories while capturing Championship of Americas titles at the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Field, yesterday.

The quartet of Nikita Tracey, Amoy Blake, Shashawna French and Ristananna Tracey clocked 3:41.25 to lead their team to victory in the girls’ 4×400 metres relay.

Holmwood (3:41.72) and Manchester High 3:41.76 finished second and third, respectively, while Vere Technical, the other Jamaican team in the final, was disqualified.

Edwin Allen was aided by a brilliant anchor led from Ristannana Tracey, who found extra gear in the last 60 metres to go by leader Petra Fantry of Holmwood and Natoya Goule of Manchester.

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Second brilliant effort

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She clocked 54.1 seconds on her anchor leg, her second brilliant effort, following that in the 4×800 metres.

Ristananna was duly named the Most Outstanding high school female relay athlete of the meet.

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