THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 5, 1994 TAG: 9406050202
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ED MILLER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940605 LENGTH: HAMPTON
Colander and Reid collected five state titles between them, starting with back-to-back victories in the high hurdles in times among the fastest in the nation this year.
{REST} Colander, who capped one of the area's all-time great careers by winning the 100 hurdles, the 100, and the 200 - her 10th, 11th and 12th state titles.
No one was within shouting distance of Colander as she blazed to her win in the 100 hurdles. She followed it 10 minutes later by winning the 100, then added the 200 a couple of hours later.
``I had the wind behind me,'' she said. ``It helped me. It pushed me.''
The tailwind, as it turns out, was a little too helpful. Because it was above the allowable maxiumum of two meters per second, Colander's times in the 100 hurdles and the 200, although faster than the state records, can't be counted.
In the 100 hurdles, Colander hit the tape in 13.60 seconds, the fastest time in the nation this year and well under the state record of 13.82. Colander finished the 200 in 23.64. The record is 23.79.
Wilson coach John Crute said the irony is that wind gauges weren't used when many of the current state records were set.
But Colander, running in the last local meet of her high school career, said she wasn't concerned with breaking records.
Reid, like Colander running for the last time locally, clocked a 13.53 in the 110 hurdles, the best in the nation and better than the 10-year-old record of 13.69. Again, though, it was ruled wind-aided.
Reid then won the 300 hurdles in 37.42, edging Norview's Jimmie Foster, who beat him at the Eastern Region meet last week.
``I changed my strategy,'' Reid said. ``I got out slow last week. I got out fast this time, then I was like, `Where is he? Where is he?' ''
Foster answered the question, thundering from behind to get in Reid's shadow with two hurdles left. Foster stumbled after clearing the last hurdle, however, and Reid broke the tape first.
The 110 hurdles weren't nearly as close, with Reid a hurdle ahead of the pack. ``I just feel like I'm getting faster and getting to the hurdles better,'' Reid said.
Reid and teammate Mike Brown (see story D9) combined for 38 points between them, enough to put Salem in contention for the team title. The Sun Devils led going into the final event, the 1,600 meter relay, but were edged by Menchville, which took second in the relay to finish with 41 points.
Colander's 30 points put Wilson in fifth place. by CNB