SACRAMENTO, California: Mike Rodgers wasn’t going to be slowed by a slight headwind as he captured the 100 meters Friday at the US Track and Field Championships.

Rodgers claimed his first national title by clocking a 10.09 seconds to beat runner-up Ryan Bailey who ran a 10.23 at Hornet Stadium. Sean McLean was third in 10.26.

Rodgers won his heat earlier in the day with a time of 9.80, but that time he had the wind at his back.

“I am just blessed and happy the track is fast. I hope to come back here soon,” Rodgers said. “I just tried to be aggressive throughout my race and once I got to the end I knew I was the best man.”

Rodgers beat a depleted field Friday as American stars Tyson Gay and Justin Gatlin skipped the USA championships.

The 29-year-old Rodgers thinks this result will get their attention.

“Hopefully Tyson and Gatlin will have seen what I did here,” Rodgers said.

Tianna Bartoletta won the women’s 100 meter title with a time of 11.15. Her path to victory was made easier when Olympic gold medal winner Allyson Felix and rising star Tori Bowie both pulled out of the event.

Barbara Pierre (11.27) was second and Lekeisha Lawson (11.30) placed third.

Bowie, who suffered an apparent ankle injury in her heat, ran the fastest time of the semis with a 10.91.

Trey Hardee easily won the decathlon with a 2014 world-leading score of 8,599 points.

Earlier this month, Hardee won the decathlon at a meet in Austria with 8,518 points.

The 30-year-old American won the silver medal in the 2012 London Olympics.

His personal best is 8,790 points, established at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.

Bernard Lagat won the 5,000 meters with a time of 13:31.41 to earn his seventh US crown.

Molly Huddle ran a 15:01.56 to capture the women’s 5,000 meters.

Jenn Suhr claimed her sixth national title in pole vault as she cleared 4.60 meters.

Sharon Day will get a chance to defend her US women’s heptathlon crown when the event continues on Saturday. Day has a 123 point lead.

Campbell-Brown bags 100m Jamaica title

In Kingston, Jamaica, Kaliese Spencer ran a world-leading time of 53.41 to win the women’s 400 meter hurdles title on the second day of the Jamaican Track and Field Championships late Friday.

On a day when sprint star Veronica Campbell-Brown made a winning return to the Jamaican track scene after being away for more than a year, the hurdlers provided plenty of excitement as Roxroy Cato ran the second fastest time in the world (48.48 seconds) to win the men’s 400 meter hurdle race.

The Jamaica nationals are doubling this year as a qualifying event for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games which begins next month.

Spencer, the three time Diamond League trophy winner who now has the top three times in the world, continued her brilliant season as she dominated the field at National Stadium.

“This is the fastest I have ever run here in Jamaica so I am happy for that,” she said.

Janieve Russell, the 2012 world junior champion, was second in 54.75 seconds, and Nikita Tracey took third to book their tickets to the Commonwealth Games.

Cato posted a personal best performance and said he was confident he could win at the Commonwealth Games.

“Why not? I am running fast and I still have some more time to train and can run faster,” he said after winning his first national title.

Annsert Whyte, who came into the finals as the favorite, was second in 48.58 seconds while former four time champion Leford Green was third.

Campbell-Brown won the women’s 100 meter title, clocking a time of 10.96 seconds to beat Olympic silver medalist Kerron Stewart who finished in 11.02 seconds. Schillonie Calvert finished third in 11.16.

“I am happy with the victory but I know I still have a lot of work to do,” Campbell-Brown said.

Campbell-Brown was running in Jamaica for the first time since she failed a drug test in May 2013, which caused her to miss last year’s World Championships in Moscow.

Nickel Ashmeade beat a depleted field to win the men’s 100 meter race which was missing several of the country’s top sprinters, including Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. Ashmeade finished in 10.06 seconds.

Ashmeade defeated Jason Livermore (10.11) and Kemar Bailey-Cole (10.16).

Damon McLean won the men’s triple jump with a leap of 16.15 meters. British-based Daniel Lewis was second (16.04m) and Wayne Northover was third (15.83m).

Newly-crowned national record holder Kellion Knibb won the women’s discus throw with a 58.88 meter toss while Jovanee Jarrett claimed the women’s long jump title with a jump of 6.38 meters.