LOUISIANA, United States — Christopher Young of Barton County Community College retained his men’s shot put title after throwing a personal best 18.76m on Friday’s second day of the National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) outdoor track and field championships being held at Brown Stadium at the University of Louisiana- Monroe.

It was Young’s second title in as many days after he won the men’s hammer throw on Thursday’s opening day with another lifetime best 56.61m.

The top positions in the men’s shot put and seven of the top 10 were occupied by Jamaicans as there were also silver medal performances in both high jumps.

Young, who will contest both the javelin and discus throws on Saturday’s final day, had just two legal throws on Friday and fouled his first two attempts, surpassed his previous personal best of 18.67m and just short of the Barton County school record 18.79m.

Young’s former Edwin Allen teammate Trevor Gunzell of Coffeyville Community College, was second with a season’s best 18.50m, Denzs Simmonds of Iowa Western was third with a life time best 17.92m, Shamar Reid of South Plains Junior College was fourth wit 17.31m and Yekeni Bowen of Iowa Western was fifth with 17.31m.

Ricardo Hayles of Barton was eighth was a personal best 16.97m and Christopher Brown of Hutchinson Community College threw 15.52m for 10th place.

Corey Ottey of Cloud County Community College was second in the men’s high jump with a personal best 2.12m, up from 2.10m and Shackla Henry of Cloud County Community College took second in the women’s high jump with 1.73m.

Calleisha Chance of Iowa Western was fifth in the women’s high jump with a season’s best 1.68m while Cordaelia Williams of Cloud County cleared 1.63m for seventh place.

Meanwhile, Bovel McPherson of New Mexico Junior College ran a personal best 46.29 seconds to qualify for the men’s 400m final where he will be joined by Gregory Prince of South Plains who ran 46.89 seconds.

Tanique Taylor of Iowa Western Community College ran a personal best 13.98 seconds (1.4m/s) to advance to the 100m hurdles final, Kay-Lagay Clarke of Barton County 14.00 seconds and Chenessa Davis of Cloud County-14.12 seconds also advanced.

Tyrice Taylor of Indian Hills, the men’s 800m leader, advanced to the final after running 1:51.79 seconds; Dishaun Lamb of South Plains Junior College grabbed the final qualifying spot in the 110m hurdles after he ran 14.23 seconds (1.8m/s), while on Thursday, Safhia Hinds of South Plains ran a personal best 1:00.19 seconds to lead the qualifiers in the women’s 400m hurdles.