Outdoor Track Preview: at Southern Miss Open

LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns track and field team makes its final tuneup heading into next month's Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championships when it begins competition on Friday in the Southern Miss Open at the Southern Miss Track and Field and Soccer Complex.

Competition for the two-day meet begins on Friday at 2:30 p.m., with the triple jump, hammer throw and javelin. The men's and women's pole vault competition will take place on Friday at 5 p.m., at Jaguar Track in Mobile, Ala.

The final day of action will begin on Saturday at 11:30 a.m., with the women's high jump, discus and shot put before running event begin at 12:10 p.m.

Louisiana and host Southern Miss will be joined in the 17-team field by Division I programs Alcorn State, Jackson State, South Alabama, Southeastern Louisiana UAB, and ULM. Also competing in the field is Belhaven, Dillard, Hinds Community College, Meridian Community College, Millsaps, Mississippi College, Shorter, Southern-New Orleans and William Carey.

Competing in its final event before the SBC Championships May 11-13 in San Marcos, Texas, Louisiana will look to build on momentum gained during meets at Auburn and LSU. Beau Robinson (men's 3,000-meter steeplechase) and Kyle Baudoin (men's pole vault) each earned first-place performances to lead the Ragin' Cajuns with Tisay Woodhouse improving on her school-record in the women's hammer throw (173-11).

Bartul Basic will look to improve on his season-best performance in the men's javelin (232-9), where he is ranked No. 1 in the Sun Belt Conference and No. 10 nationally. Hunter Stelly ranks No. 3 in the SBC in the men's javelin with freshman MacKenzie Marze ranked third among SBC athletes in the women's javelin.

Multi-athletes Sven Glueck, Angus Sinclair and Chandler Mixon are each scheduled to compete in four events for Louisiana on the men's side with Alex Morrow and Juliette Smith slated to appear in multiple events in women's competition.

Glueck will compete in the high jump, where he is ranked No. 3 in the Sun Belt Conference (6-9 ½) while Shaquille Singuineau will look to move up in the men's shot put after his performance last week at the LSU Alumni Gold (56-0 ½) moved him to No. 3 on the SBC Performance List.

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Outdoor Track Preview: at Southern Miss Open

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Players Mentioned

Bartul Basic

Kyle Baudoin

Sven Glueck

MacKenzie Marze

Chandler Mixon

Alex Morrow

Beau Robinson

Angus Sinclair

Shaquille Singuineau

Juliette Smith

Hunter Stelly

Tisay Woodhouse

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