BATON ROUGE – Southeastern Louisiana senior Henry Rop won the mile run with a Southland Conference Championship qualifying time of 4:25.29 to highlight the Southeastern performance at the LSU Twilight Meet Friday night at the Carl Maddox Field House on the LSU campus.

Rop was one of two Southeastern student-athletes to post qualifying performances for next week's Southland Conference Indoor Championships. Freshman Alicia Noel did not qualify for the finals on Friday, but posted a time of 7.84 seconds in the 60 meter preliminaries.

Junior Michelle Ogashi, who already possessed the second best performance of the indoor season by a Southland athlete in the triple jump this spring, bested that performance on Friday. Ogashi finished fourth with a season-best leap of 39-7.75 and will be a strong contender for the Southland title in that category.

Both the men's and women's 4x400 meter relay teams posted their top performances of the indoor campaign Friday night. The men's team of senior Jerel Butler, freshman Antonio Herbert, freshman Cameron Lawrence and sophomore Abram Taylor finished second with a season-best time of 3:21.34. On the women's side, freshman Tess Mullings, Noel, freshman Keisha Celestine and senior Judith Schultheis covered the distance in 4:02.22.

Herbert also tied his season-best time of 6.87 in the 60 meters, finishing eighth. In the triple jump, freshman Phillippe Moore topped his previous season best, posting a jump of 14.32 meters on the way to a sixth place finish.

Taylor was fourth in the 60 meter hurdles with a time of 8.42. After setting the school record in his last meet by clearing a school-record 5.05 meters, junior Kovey Simmons finished fifth in the pole vault by clearing 4.94 meters and missed several times trying a school-record 5.07 meter vault. Sophomore Johnel Reams was also fifth in the high jump, clearing 1.92 meters.

Sophomore Shalicia Rochon also posted a personal season best in the women's shot put, finishing fifth with a toss of 13.66 meters. Schultheis (5th, 60 meters, 8.89) and sophomore Bethany Burst (6th, 3,000 meters, 11:27.34) were among the other Lady Lion standouts.

The Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships are scheduled to run Feb. 24-26 in Norman, Okla.