MEN'S 4X100 BREAKS SCHOOL RECORD TO ADVANCE TO NATIONALS MAGGIE HAYON 0529/10 Quartet breaks 40-second mark in quest for National Championship GREENSBORO, N.C. - The University of Maryland Eastern Shore men's 4x100 relay finished 11th overall with a mark of 39.76 Saturday evening at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Eastern Regional at the Irwin Belk Track on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University. Out of 24 teams competing, the top 12 advance to the NCAA Championships, which will be held June 9-12 at the University of Oregon's historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The quartet of junior Thomas Keane-Dawes (Camden, N.C.), senior Allodin Fothergill (New Hempstead, N.Y.) and sophomore Damian Miles (Teaneck, N.J.) and Akheem Gauntlett (Roselle, N.J.) broke their own school record with the time of 39.76. The previous record of 40.01 was set at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championships earlier this month. "The Eastern Regional is a very difficult one and the guys did an outstanding job today," said head coach Ernest Barrett. "If you factor in the Western Regional results, we are one of the top 16 teams in the country and anything can happen from here. We're looking forward to traveling to Eugene and making the university proud." The relay joins sophomore Cynthia Anais (Martinique, France) who qualified for Nationals in the women's 800-meter run Friday with her school-record time of 2:05.33.