Rea Tobitt, Richard James and Camilla Harris win three times for Track and Field at NEC Championships

Sophomores Rea Tobitt and Richard James each were named women's and men's Most Outstanding Track Performer, respectively, and junior Camilla Harris also combined to win three gold medals at the Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships in Emmitsburg, MD.

Long Island saw seven of its women's teams win conference championships and finished second overall with 128 1/2 points, trailing Monmouth's 137. The men had four winners and closed in fourth place with 85 points. St. Francis (PA) totaled 181 points.

Tobitt (Staten Island, NY) captured the 100 meter dash in 12.19 seconds and the 200 meter dash in 25.11 seconds. She also teamed with Harris, sophomore Destinee McCray (Rockville, MD) and freshman Chioma Ukpai (Fort Lauderdale, FL) to win the 4x100 meter relay in 47.62 seconds.

Tobitt also was a part of the 4x400 meter relay squad that closed in second place.

James (Portland, Jamaica) became the first man in NEC history to be named Most Outstanding Track Performer for both the indoor and outdoor meets in the same year. This weekend, he captured the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds and the 400 meter dash in 46.06 seconds.

James, who won the 400 meter indoor title, teamed with freshman Shaun Johnson (Ontario, Canada), junior Cameron Horton (Bowie, MD) and junior Kishwayne Virgo (Plainfield, NJ) to capture the 4x100 meter relay in 40.98 seconds.

Harris (Pine Hill, NJ) won her second long jump title in three years with a leap of 5.7 meters and took the triple jump with a mark of 12.29 meters, extending her conference championship total this season to five. She was named the indoor meet's Most Valuable Performer by winning the triple jump and the 60 meter dash.

Junior Sonrisa Garcia (Sante Fe, NM), who was second in the indoor shot put, did one better this weekend with a toss of 13.63 meters for her first individual conference crown.

Senior Georgette Lewis (Bronx, NY) captured her second straight 400 meter hurdles title in 1:01.63, bettering her time of 1:02.15 from last season.

Horton, who took the 60 meter indoor dash, won the 100 meter crown in 10.80 seconds.

The women, who won the NEC indoor title in February for the school's first conference track and field championship of any kind, recorded their finest outdoor finish in school history. The men's result was their best finish since closing in a fourth-place tie in 1993.

The Blackbirds will compete at the Metropolitan Championships this weekend in New Haven, CT.