Matt Bevil

With adidas Nationals in a week we look at the best performances at NC A&T's venue's history.

The third and final day of New Balance Nationals was another good one for Florida.  Octavious Freeman once again did her thing, accelerating away from the field during the final 50 meters to win her second gold of the weekend with a 23.24 200 Meter Dash (US #2).  Matt Bevil of Ft. Walton Beach bettered his PB, battling hard to a second place finish in 1:50.11--US #5 and All-Time #7 in Florida. Hugh Graham finished second in the 400 meters with a US#7 46.82.

After starting on Friday, the 3A-1 meet at Chiles in Tallahassee is finally over!  The meet was delayed due to thunderstorms and wrapped up on Monday.  And WOW!   There were some really great performances, the best beyond question was MATT BEVIL!  He dropped a 1:50.29.... more inside this article.

There was a lot of action this at this weekend's biggest meet and the FSU Relays in Tallahassee fortunately lived up the substantial hype it had built up.  There were emotional highs and lows, like the Ft. Walton Beach boys 4x800 team.  After running a would-be state pole position 8:06 last week at a small, unreported local meet they motivated to officially claim the #1 spot in the state with a big performance.  After a good start, the baton was dropped and rolled into lane 5 seemingly dashing those hopes.  But with a quick recovery and a quick leg, they pulled it off and claimed the position of new state leaders with a four second victory--the first sub 8 performance in Florida so far this year.