Results
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Xavier University of Louisiana women's track and field won 7-of-8 events Friday and grabbed a triple-digit lead in team scoring at the Red River Athletic Conference Championships.
The Gold Nuggets scored 153 points, 107 more than second-place Our Lady of the Lake. XULA seeks its second consecutive RRAC women's team championship and its ninth at the conference level in its last 10 attempts.
XULA's first-day points were 8 1/2 more than last year's runner-up, Wiley, scored in two days.
XULA got victories from
Kynnedy Turner in the 400-meter dash (56.54 seconds),
Skylah Barton in the 3,000 (11:44.14),
Emerald Carter in the 100 hurdles (13.85),
DaNya Horne in the hammer (34.40 meters/112 feet, 10 inches), and
Zoe Cordova in the triple jump (10.92 meters/35 feet, 10 inches). Also winning were Carter,
Ariel Ford,
Darryan Horton and Turner (46.61) in the 400 relay and Barton,
Hannah Stoutmire,
Fedjine Bell and Horton (10:15.00) in the 3,200 relay.
Horne, who placed second in the shot put, led all Gold Nuggets with 18 points. Next was
Elise Adams — second in the hammer, fourth in the shot put — with 13 points.
Carter, prteviously qualified for NAIA nationals in the 100 hurdles, produced a career-best time and won this event at the league level for the third consecutive season. Freshman
Kyla Coleman was second in 14.60, a B-qualifying time for nationals.
Another previously qualified Gold Nugget was
Kynnedy Turner, who lowered her A-mark in the 400 to 56.54. Turner won by 31-hundredths of a second over Huston-Tillotson's Jaymee Yelton.
Cordova repeated as triple jump champion. Ford was a member of a league-champion 400-relay team for the third consecutive year.
An early evening thunderstorm moved the javelin and 10,000-meter run to Saturday.
The meet's second and final day will begin at 9:30 a.m. CDT Saturday at Antonian High School's Ferrara Stadium.
Here are all XULA women's results from the first day of the RRAC Championships:
400:
Kynnedy Turner, 1st in 56.54;
Ariel Ford, 4th in 58.67;
Vanessa Oladapo, 6th in 58.94;
Fedjine Bell, 7th in 59.11
3,000:
Skylah Barton, 1st in 11:44.14;
Amber Parks, 4th in 13:18.76;
Jalyn Jenkins, 5th in 15:24.03
100 Hurdles:
Emerald Carter, 1st in 13.85;
Kyla Coleman, 2nd in 14.60;
Jade Harris, 3rd in 15.35;
Kayla Jackson, 5th in 17.07
400 Relay:
Emerald Carter,
Ariel Ford,
Darryan Horton,
Kynnedy Turner, 1st in 46.61
3,200 Relay:
Skylah Barton,
Hannah Stoutmire,
Fedjine Bell,
Darryan Horton, 1st in 10:15.00
Hammer:
DaNya Horne, 1st in 34.40 meters/112 feet, 10 inches;
Elise Adams, 2nd in 33.85 meters/111 feet, 1 inch;
Kayla Gant, 8th in 23.44 meters/76 feet, 11 inches;
Octavia McDougle, 11th, no mark
Shot Put:
DaNya Horne, 2nd in 11.85 meters/38 feet, 10 1/2 inches;
Octavia McDougle, 3rd in 10.88 meters/35 feet, 8 1/2 inches;
Elise Adams, 4th in 10.80 meters/35 feet, 5 1/4 inches;
Kayla Gant, 5th in 10.74 meters/35 feet, 3 inches
Triple Jump:
Zoe Cordova, 1st in 10.92 meters/35 feet, 10 inches;
Olevia Brown, 2nd in 10.81 meters/35 feet, 5 3/4 inches;
A'Blesin Wilson, 3rd in 10.60 meters/34 feet, 9 1/2 inches
Team Scoring: XULA 153, Our Lady of the Lake 46, Huston-Tillotson 38, Jarvis Christian 23, Paul Quinn 0
