T&F: Ragin’ Cajuns Set for Busy Weekend with Three Meets
The Louisiana track and field team hits the road this weekend for three meets including two up in Boston.
In Boston, the Cajuns will face 22 schools at the Crimson Elite Invitational hosted by Harvard. The field includes Northeastern, Maine, Yale, George Mason, MIT, Cornell, Vanderbilt, UMass Lowell, UConn, Tulane, Syracuse, Harvard, Dartmouth, UCF, Boston College, Howard, Boston University, Columbia, Brown, UAlbany, and Northwestern State.
The Cajuns will stay up in Boston for the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invite hosted by Boston University. They'll close the weekend on Sunday at the Jaguar Invitational, hosted by South Alabama, in Birmingham, Alabama.
Last week in Houston, Louisiana had a record-setting performance in the men's DMR. Samuel Avants, Peyton Chiasson, Andrew Leck, and Antoni Hoyte-Small ran the second-fastest time in program history at 10:01.71, and hold the fastest time this season in the Sun Belt Conference.
Joseph Patterson has the fastest time this season in the SBC in the 800-meter at 1:53.33. Tyren Hannah also holds the top weight throw in the SBC at 64 feet 2.5 inches. Other men currently with a top-five score in the conference include Trejun Jones in the 60-meter (6.77) and 200-meter (21.58), Chiasson in the 800-meter (1:56.08) and mile (4:12.20), Teodor Borgius (16 feet 11.75 inches) and Timothy Gale (16 feet 5.5 inches), Federico Bovo (4,839 points) in the heptathlon, and the 4x400-meter relay team (3:16.54).
In the top five on the women's side are Kennedy London (8.43) in the 60-meter hurdles, Lauren Roberts (12 feet 6.25 inches) in the pole vault, Reem Tammam (40 feet 7.5 inches), and the DMR (12:30.17).
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