JSU Finishes Third, Cook wins Long and Triple Jump - Jacksonville State University Athletics

Friday, April 26

Marietta, Ga.

Jax State

Don McGarey Invitational

4/27/2019 7:19:00 PM | Track and Field

REULTS

MARIETTA, Ga. - The Jacksonville State track and field team finished third as a team at Kennesaw State's Don McGarey Invitational on Friday and Saturday, led by senior Brittany Cook's field victories.

Host KSU took the women's team title, while Marshall finished runner-up. The Gamecocks led USC-Upstate and Gardner-Webb to round out the top five squads.

Cook brought home champion honors in both the long jump and triple jump to anchor JSU's field events. The senior from Mobile, Ala., led a trio of KSU Owls to take the long jump title with a leap distance of 5.72 meters. It marks her third long jump victory of the season. Freshman teammate Emily Burrowes rounded out the top five in fifth at 5.45 meters. A 12.06-meter distance was Cook's winning mark fir the triple jump.

JSU continued to stack up points in the high jump with four of the top seven finishers. Junior Briana Caudle placed runner-up with a height of 1.73 meters, while Madison Rollins and Baylee Porch also finished top five with 1.68 and 1.63 jumps, respectively. Senior Erica Edwards rounded out JSU's quartet in seventh-place.

A personal best mark fell in the shot put as Mary Cagle landed her career toss of 12.35 meters to finish seventh, just edging her previous distance from Montevallo last season. In the javelin event, JSU went third, fourth and fifth behind Marshall in the top two spots with Greta Romei, Baylee Porch and Imani Debrow. Porch's 38.08-meter throw was another new personal best.

Junior Emily Sorrell reached the podium finishing third in the 800-meter race with a mark of 2:17.77. Alyssa Hudgins also scored in the 800 for JSU with an eighth-place spot in 2:22.12.

In the short distance track events, the Gamecocks set a couple of new standards as freshman Ayanna Rollins and sophomore Andrianna Raggs set new personal best times. Rollins shaved two-tenths off her 100-meter dash time to finish 11th at 12.25 seconds. Meanwhile, Raggs narrowly trimmed four-one hundredths to clock a top 10 time in the 200-meters of 25.05, beating her 25.09 from Mississippi State in March. Another PB went down as Zaria Coprich finished sixth in the 400-meters with a time of 1:00.26.

Freshmen Leandra Custodio and Ashton Coats finished back-to-back in fifth and sixth in the 400-meter hurdles, while Coats and Tylynn Register earned top 10 spots in the 100-meter hurdle dash. Register and Custodio would join Raggs and Coprich to make up JSU's 4x400 relay team that finished runner-up to the Owls with a time of 3:56.05.

The Ohio Valley Conference outdoor championships are May 9-11 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.