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        MARION, Ind. — Xavier University of Louisiana shattered a school record in the preliminaries of the men's 1,600-meter relay Thursday evening and advanced to the final at NAIA outdoor track and field nationals.
        Jaheene Bell, Juston Tweh, Daunté Kelly and Winston Young produced a Gold Rush-record time of 3 minutes, 10.23 seconds. Those four set the previous XULA second-era mark of 3:16.30 April 27 in New Orleans at the Red River Athletic Conference Championships.
        XULA's preliminary time ranked second. The top six teams were separated by 82 hundredths of a second. Dordt was No. 1 at 3:10.17, Marian (Ind.) was third at 3:10.92, and Southeastern (Fla.) was fourth at 3:10.96.
        Prior to this season, XULA's best relay mark was a mile time converted to 1,600 meters. At the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference meet May 12, 1956, in Atlanta, Ga., David English, Willie Bradley, Isaac Picou and Alvin Harry produced a meet-record 3:17 mile relay that converted to 3:15.86 for 1,600 meters.
        In the other Gold Rush events Thursday, Young was 33rd in the 400 prelims at 48.86, and in the high jump Damien Trahan tied for 19th, and Dayton Jamierson tied for 25th. Both jumped 1.97 meters/6 feet, 5 1/2 inches, but Trahan finished higher because of fewer misses.
        Also competing for XULA Friday — the third and final day of the meet — will be Blake Harris and two-time NAIA national champion Seth Alexander in the triple jump and Bell in the 400 hurdles final.