Baton Rouge- Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns competed in the Purple Tiger Classic Friday at the campus of LSU. The Cajuns had six top five finishes highlighted by Chris Roy’s second place finish in the pole vault. Roy finished with a height of 5 meters.
Other top five finishers include; Tyler Guidry, fourth, in the shot put with a distance of 15.82 meters. Jasmine Anderson finished fifth in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.94 seconds. Louis Stevens completed the 60 meter hurdles in 8.30, good enough for a fifth place finish. In the mens triple jump Kenneth Bollard finished fifth with a jump of 14.31 meters. The sixth Cajun to have a top five finish was Stuart Theriot in the one mile run with a time of 4:34.97.
UL had other notable finishes in the womens 4x400 relay, the mens high jump and the womens triple jump. The womens 4x400 team finished sixth with a time of 4:01.61. Jasmine Manuel finished sixth in the triple jump with an 11.59 meters jump. Antwain Keyes placed seventh in the high jump with a height of 1.98 meters. Jesseka Jones finished sixth in the womens pentathlon with 2849 points.
The Cajuns will be back in action February 7, when they travel to Houston, Texas to compete in the Cougar Classic.