Louisiana State's Isa Phillips (right) winning the men's 400 metre hurdles in 48.51 seconds at the NCAA track and field championships in Sacramento on Saturday. - AP

Four Jamaicans struck gold at the four-day National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One Champ-ionships which ended in Sacramento, California, on Saturday.

Isa Phillips of Louisiana State University (LSU) clocked a personal best 48.51 seconds to win the men's 400m hurdles final; Ricardo Chambers of Florida State took the men's 400m in 44.66; Auburn University's Kerron Stewart cantered to victory in the women's 200m in 22.42, while multi-talented hurdler Nickiesha Wilson was a member of the LSU quartet which won the women's 4x400m in 3:28.07, the second fastest time in the world this year.

Phillips, a former student of St. Andrew Technical, registered the sixth-fastest time of 2007 and the best by a Jamaican beating the 48.83 Danny McFarlane clocked on May 20 in Carson, California. He also went well under his previous best of 49.36. Phillips was also on the LSU team which was third in the 4x400m in 3:02.97. Baylor won in 3:00.04.

Chambers went into the men's 400m final as the firm favourite but was pushed to the line by Lionel Larry of Southern California, who was second in 44.68.

Stewart justified her favouritism in the women's 200m with an easy win. Simone Facey of Texas A&M ensured a Jamaican one-two by placing second in 22.64. Samantha Henry was ninth in 23.58.

Wilson, who was third in the 100m hurdles on Friday night, ran the first leg for the LSU 4x400m relay team. She had earlier clocked 55.68 for the runner-up spot in the 400m hurdles behind Nicole Leach of the University College of Los Angeles (UCLA) who won in a then world-leading 54.32. Carlene Robinson of Illinois placed seventh in 57.11. Jamaican Orlando Reid (20.75) of Tennessee was third in the men's 200m, won in 20.32 by rising American sprint star Florida State's Walter Dix. He captured the men's 100m in 9.93 on Friday night and has the world leading times in both the 100m and 200m (19.69).

Texas A&M's Clora Williams (52.03) was fifth in the women's 400m which was won in a world best 50.15 by Natasha Hastings of South Carolina.

Shaun Smith (1:48.09) of Oral Roberts could only manage sixth in the men's 800m, won in 1:47.48 by Andrew Ellerton of Michigan.

Arizona State topped the women's section of the meet with 60 points, ahead of LSU's 49. Florida States topped the women 54 ahead of LSU's 48.