Final wrapup: Meet records fall at Taco Bell

COLUMBIA - It was a long, blustery day Saturday at Taco Bell, but the conditions didn't prevent the 2,500 high school athletes who competed at Harry Parone Stadium from setting a trio of new meet records.

Anna Cockrell grabbed the U.S. no. one time in the 400 intermediate hurdles Saturday evening, at the same time smashing the meet record for the event.

Cockrell, a student at Providence Day in North Carolina, ran the 400 intermediate hurdles in 57.77, easily topping the previous Taco Bell record of 58.96 set eight years ago by Ryann Krais. 

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Cockrell came close to another meet record, this one in the girls' 100-meter hurdles held earlier on Saturday.  Cockrell ran her preliminary in 13.44, just .18 of a second off the meet mark of 13.26 also set eight years ago by Jacquelyn Coward. 

Rush-Henrietta High junior Sammy Watson narrowly missed a meet record in the girls 400-meter dash, finishing in 53.83, just .12 of a second short of the meet mark of 53.71 set in 2009 by J.L. Ma...