ORANGEBURG, SC – The South Carolina State track and field teams combined for nine top 10 finishes and set 12 personal records in a crowded field during the two-day Weems Baskins Invitational, hosted by the University of South Carolina Mar. 26-27.

Coach Jerod Wims teams also qualified two more performers for the May 7-8 MEAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships scheduled for Greensboro, NC, with North Carolina A&T as the host.

Bulldog sprinters Brenton Shippy and Waddell Rembert-Jett finished third (10.41) and fifth (10.48), respectively, in the 100 meters, while Devin Brewington was fifth in the 200 meters in a time of 21.02, the best clocking in the event for a SC State freshman.

Other top 10 performers for SC State in the event, which included 25 colleges and universities, was the Bulldog 4x100-meter relay team of Rembert-Jett, Brewington, Shippy and Dwayne Curnell, which was seventh in a time of 40.84, and Shippy, 10^th in the 200 meters (21.54).

In the women's competition, sophomore Jada Banks was seventh in the 5000 meters (18:17.83) and eighth in the 800 meters (2:23.49), while the 4x400-meter relay team of Debrielle Williams, Chanice Harris, Donmonique Edmondson and Stephanie Jobe was eight with a clocking of 3:59.43.

Both Rembert-Jett (100m) and Banks (5000m) earned MEAC Championship qualifying marks and were among SC State performers establishing personal bests.

SCSU returns to USC Saturday, Apr. 10, for the Gamecock Invitational and will also visit Columbia for the USC Open Apr. 17.