Porscha Lucas led the United States team to victory in the women’s 800-meter relay at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, and the Americans won four of six events in the U.S.A. vs. The World races. Leslie Cole, Tawanna Meadows and Cambrya Jones also were on the relay team that beat Jamaica by seven-thousandths of a second in the first 800 relay at the meet since 2004. The Americans finished in 1 minute 31.972 seconds.
The United States won the men’s 800 relay more comfortably with Joe Morris, Maurice Mitchell, Ameer Webb and Wallace Spearmon clocking in at 1:20.