LAFAYETTE -- Wins by Joshua Commiato, Trecey Rew, Jessica Tuck and the men's 4x400 meter relay team highlighted Northwestern State's participation Saturday in the annual Louisiana Classics track and field meet hosted by Louisiana-Lafayette.
Commiato had a season's best 6-9 3/4 clearance to win the men's high jump. Rew had the second-best competitive mark of her career, 51-7 3/4, in the shot put after winning the Southland Conference Indoor title last month with a school-record 52-2 1/2 throw. Saturday, she took second in the discus with a 160-9 distance. Tuck covered 18-1 3/4 to claim the women's long jump title. Michael Batts, Kendal Taylor, Justin Walker and Michael Green ended the meet on a high for the Demons by posting a nearly a three-second win in the 4x400 relay, clocking 3:10.90 to the runner-up 3:13.31 by the LSU Tiger Olympians. Their performances highlighted 24 top six finishes for Northwestern competitors in the unscored, 10-team meet. The Demons and Lady Demons were training through the meet with some skipping their specialities, such as Walker in the sprints (he swept the 100 and 200 last week at McNeese) and Andrea Warren running the 400 instead of the 800. The Demons got a second from Quincy Davison, Adam Smith, Taylor and Walker in the 4x100 relay in 41.23, one-tenth off the winning mark by Louisiana-Monroe. The Lady Demons ran second to LSU (3:44.69) in the 4x400 relay with Constance Seibels, Carmen Wallace, Tuck and Warren posting a 3:48.92 time. Green ran second to LSU's Ade Alleyne-Forte in the 400 meter dash, 47.39-47.49. P. J. Bennett was fourth for the Demons in the 110 meter hurdles (14.86), while Seibles gave the Lady Demons fourth in the 400 meter dash with a 56.79 time trailing three sprinters from LSU. Rechard Llorens was fourth in the men's long jump (21-8 3/4) and Sarah Jones took fourth for the Lady Demons in the triple jump (35-9 1/4). Earning fifth places from NSU: Erin Knox in the women's 100 meter hurdles (16.02), Jamie Emery in the 800 (1:58.93), Janae Allen in the women's discus (138-10) and Wayne Douglas in the men's long jump (21-5 1/2). Northwestern athletes with sixth-places finishes: Warren in the women's 400 (57.88), Shamaigun VanBuren in the women's 100 (12.44), Wallace in the women's 400 meter hurdles (1:07.61), Taylor in the men's 200 (22.11), Allison Fontenot in the women's 3000 run (11:11.86), Mark Dotson in the men's 3000 (9:17.11), Chantel Bratton in the women's hammer throw (158-1), Douglas in the triple jump (46-6 1/4) and the Demons' B-team in the 4x400 relay (Emery, Nick Darby, Adam Smith, Karllis Perkins, 3:27.33) NSU competes next weekend at the Bobby Lane-UTA Invitational hosted by Texas-Arlington.