Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)


January 26, 1992

USL WINS FOUR IN TIGER OPENER


Author: From staff, wire reports

Section: SPORTS
Page: C8












Estimated printed pages: 3



Article Text:

BATON ROUGE

Southwestern Louisiana's men's track and field team earned four first places here in the Tiger Opener Indoor Track and Field Meet on Saturday in the LSU Field House.

The Ragin' Cajuns earned three first places in track and one in the field events. USL's Windell Dobson won the long jump with a leap of 25 feet, 2 34 inches, good enough to provisionally qualify him for the NCAA Indoor Championships scheduled for March in Indianapolis. Dobson also finished third in the 55-meter dash with a 6.32 time, also an NCAA provisional qualifier. He was one of two Cajuns in the top six in the sprint event.

Troy Tauriac finished sixth with a 6.41 clocking after running a 6.38 in the qualifying round to equal the NCAA provisional mark.

USL's most impressive performance on the track came in the final event when Darrell Granger, Grady Labbe, Stephon Wright and Henry Brooks captured the 4x400-meter relay in 3:14.96. The Cajuns finished a half-second ahead of LSU's 3:15.43 and well ahead of third-place Southern's 3:18.90.

Brooks earned an NCAA provisional qualifying mark, winning the 400-meter dash in 47.43. He was almost a full second ahead of LSU's Earl Marcelle at 48.41 and bested the NCAA qualifying mark of 47.60.

USL's other first came from Joel Chesimet, who captured the 800-meter dash in 1:55.57, winning by three-tenths of a second over Raven Lewis, who ran unattached.

The USL men took 10 places in the 32-team meet, and the Lady Cajuns squad took one place when Cathy Asevedo finished sixth in the mile run in 5:31.71.

The Cajuns came within a second of making it a sweep in the men's relay events, with Rich Treglia, Gene Cavalier, Peter Kernion and Chesimet clocking a second-place 7:50.90 time. Prairie View A&M won that event in 7:49.94.

In addition to Dobson in the 55-meter, the Cajuns got a third-place from Grady Labbe in the 55-meter hurdles with a 7.43 time. Louisiana Tech's Mario Russo won that event in 7.29.

Granger had a fourth-place in the 200-meter dash with a 21.87 time, over two-tenths back of LSU's Chris King with a winning 21.63. Kevin Castille took a fifth place for the Cajuns with an 8:53.01 clocking in the 3000-meter run. Terry Weir of South Alabama won that event in 8:32.69.

Former USL high jumper Neal Guidry, now competing unattached, had a 7-2 34 effort to tie for the best height cleared. However, five jumpers cleared that height, and Guidry finished fifth on more misses. New Iberia native Brian Brown, competing unattached, won the event with that 7-2 34 leap.