The LSU track and field team flashed its speed and showed its depth in the middle distances to claim two relay wins Saturday to close out the 95th Texas Relays.
The women’s 4×800-meter relay team won as did the men’s 4×100 relay unit, giving LSU a total of four victories overall — three in the relays — on the weekend.
The 4×800 team of Hannah Carroll, Lorena Rangel Batres, Cindy Bourdier and Michaela Rose started the day off right in racing to a meet-record time of 8 minutes, 20.69 seconds.
It was the second meet record in a little more than 12 hours for the LSU women, who also claimed the distance medley relay Friday night at Michael A. Myers Stadium.
Bourdier, Rose and Batres also ran legs on the distance medley relay that posted a winning time of 10:59.86. That also went down as a school record.
Later Saturday, the 4×100 team of Brandon Hicklin, Dorian Camel, Da’Marcus Fleming and Godson Oghenebrume got the stick around in 38.53 seconds to take the third relay title of the weekend for coach Dennis Shaver’s team.
The women’s 4×100 relay of Alia Armstrong, Leah Phillips, Tionna Beard-Brown and Thelma Davies finished third with a time of 43.30 seconds.
In individual races, LSU had three of the nine finalists in the women’s 100-meter hurdles, and the Tigers cashed in with a 2-3-5 showing.
Armstrong was second in 12.57 seconds, which was a shade off her personal-best of 12.55, while Phillips had a big-time PR of 12.95 — besting her old mark of 13.48 by more than a half-second.
Shani’a Bellamy, who claimed the 400 hurdles title Friday night, was fifth in the 100 hurdles with a PR of 13.14.
Kentucky’s Masai Russell won the 100 hurdles with a meet- and collegiate-record time of 12.36 seconds.
After anchoring the 4×100 relay to a third-place finish, Davies took third in the invitational 200 meters in 22.91 seconds and was fifth in the open 100 with an 11.29.
In the men’s 4×400, LSU took fourth in a season-best time of 3:04.15.
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