The LSU men’s 4×100-meter relay team lowered its nation’s-leading time and shot up the school’s all-time list to highlight the annual Alumni Gold meet Saturday.
LSU previously led the nation after it won the title at the Texas Relays on April 1 with a time of 38.53 seconds. But the Tigers took it another step Saturday afternoon in front of some of the program’s all-time greats.
The team of Brandon Hicklin, Dorian Camel, Da’Marcus Fleming and Godson Oghenebrume got the baton around in 38.36.
It went down as the fourth-fastest time in program history — just .12 off the school record of 38.24 set back in 1998.
Oghenebrume and Fleming came back later to star in the short sprints even though their times were wind-aided.
Oghenebrume won the 100 meters in 9.97 seconds, a clocking that was aided by a tailwind of 2.3 meters per second — just over the allowable 2.3 mps for record-keeping purposes.
Fleming, who was second to Oghenebrume in 10.06 seconds later won the 200 in 20.22 seconds with a slight 2.1 mps wind at his back.
LSU’s Alia Armstrong added a fourth win on the track as she took the 100-meter hurdles title in 12.77 seconds. That race was run into a 1.8 mps headwind.
Also, Claudio Romero won the discus throw with a best of 196 feet, 5 inches.
Three former LSU stars won their events as Aleia Hobbs took the 100 in 10.86 seconds, Vernon Norwood won the 400 in 44.80 seconds and Rebekah Wales claime dthe javelin title with a best of 159-5.
Three athletes from state schools took event titles as well.
Southern’s Lafayette Collins won the 3,000 meters in 9 minutes, 00.07 seconds, UL’s Sophie Daigle took the 1,500 in 4:30.61 and Southeastern’s Slavko Stevic claimed the high jump at 7-2¼
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