CLEMSON, S.C.—Lutrisha Altidor won the women's 800m run and Tyrisha Chambers and Tanish Boulware tied for the top finish in the women's high jump event as Alabama State University opened its indoor track season at the Orange and Purple Winter Classic hosted by Clemson University.

There were several other members of the Hornets' team that pulled in top 10 finishes but Altidor's time of 2:16.52 in the 800m event easily outdistanced the second place finisher, Ariel Allen (Florida A&M) by five seconds. ASU's Simone Buford had a fifth-place finishing time of 2:24.79.

Chambers and Boulware each had a high jump of 1.60m to finish at the top of the leader board along with Georgia Southern's Alex Cassagnol.

Charles Flewellen had a third place finish in the men's 800m run with a time of 1:57.33. Tia Rolle (7.72) finished 5^th in the Women's 60m dash and Shawn Lockhart (6.96) finished fourth in the men's 60m dash. Ricky Buckles also had a top-10 finish as his time of 7.02 placed him eighth in the event.

Quantavious Lockhart and Ronald Jordan had top-10 finishes in the men's 60m hurdles. Lockhart (8.28) finished seventh and Jordan (8.36) finished ninth.

Sylvester Byrd had a strong fifth-place finish in the men's 300m dash with a time of 35.84. Both the men's and women's 4X400m relay team had strong finishes as the men finished third with a time of 3:20.07 and the women's time of 3:54.92 gave them a fourth-place finish.

ASU had a strong showing in the women's shot put event as three Hornets finished among the top eight finishers. Shexnieavia Bryant finished third with a throw of 12.86m and Shanice Mells was right behind in fourth with a throw of 11.85m. Melissa Romelus finished eighth with a throw of 11.37m.

The women were also strong in the weight throw as Bryant finished second with a toss of 17.61m and Mells was again one spot back with a throw of 16.34m. Ciara Taborn finished fifth with a throw of 14.09m.

Byron Kearney had a jump of 6.57m in the men's long jump to finish eighth in the event. While in the men's high jump, Isaiah Golson finished third with a jump of 1.90m.

"This meet gave us an opportunity to see where our preseason team is," Head coach Ritchie Beene said.  "It gave us an opportunity to see where we are after our training and I was happy to see the team step up and perform well.  We will come back in January to pick back up our indoor season and we expect them to perform well all season."

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