BATON ROUGE - Northwestern State competitors posted 10 medal stand finishes, including an 800 meter win from Andrea Warren and one of the fastest 4x100 meter relay times by the Demons this century on Saturday at LSU's Alumni Gold track and field meet.
Warren won the B-division women's 800 in 2:14.08. The foursome of Raymond Hatten, Adam Smith, Mike Green and Justin Walker registered a 40.15 clocking in the 4x100, the 28th fastest collegiate time in the country this year. LSU (39.12), the Tiger Olympians (39.25), and two foursomes from Team Canada (39.34, 39.44) outran NSU Saturday.
The 40.15 clocking would have been good enough to win six of the last 10 Southland Conference titles and is the fastest for the Demons since their victorious 40.13 at the 2001 SLC Outdoors.
Lady Demon senior star Trecey Rew recorded a pair of silver medal performances. The All-America shot putter improved her season's best for the second straight week by going 54-1 ¼, the nation's 13th-best mark this season and nearly five inches better than her throw last Saturday. In the discus, she was also second with a 164-0 throw.
Northwestern got two more runner-up finishes, including Walker with a season's best 21.07 in the 200 meter dash, the second-fastest time in the Southland this season. Also taking second for NSU was Jessica Talley in the women's javelin at 144-6, the top collegiate throw Saturday, bettered only by former Nicholls standout Leslie Bourgeois (152-11).
Four third-place performances by NSU competitors were topped by Green in the 400 in 46.525, where he finished in a dead heat with LSU's Ade Alleyne-Forte as the top collegians behind Tiger Olympians Micheal Matthiew (45.69) and Armanti Hayes (45.97).
Other bronze medal efforts from Northwestern athletes: by P.J. Bennett with a season-best 14.40 in the 110 meter hurdles; from Ali Fontenot, running a 11:55.98 that lowered her season's best nearly 10 seconds in the women's 3000 meter steeplechase, and by Wayne Douglas, improving by 13 inches on his season's best in the triple jump with a 50-2 ¾ leap.
Finishing fourth for Northwestern: Greg Hall in the high jump (6-7), and Kartemus Henry with a season-best 195-2 in the javelin.
Next on the schedule is the Demon Invitational next Saturday at the Walter Ledet Track Complex on the NSU campus.