Rollins, Caudle and Romei Lead JSU at OVC Championships - Jacksonville State University Athletics

Thursday, May 9

Cape Girardeau, MO

Jax State

OVC Outdoor Championships

5/11/2019 7:49:00 PM | General, Track and Field

RESULTS

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – Jacksonville State wrapped up the 2019 track and field season at the Ohio Valley Conference outdoor championships with a nineth-place team finish.

JSU's 38 points finished behind Eastern Kentucky (50) and just ahead of SIU Edwardsville with 34 in the women's team standings. Murray State won the women's team title.

The Gamecocks tallied 14 of their points in the high jump with juniors Madison Rollins and Briana Caudle both reaching the podium. Rollins finished runner-up with a career-best 1.72-meter height, while Caudle came home third with a 1.69-meter jump.

Rollins became one of two Gamecocks to earn all-conference honors with her runner-up finish. She was joined by junior Greta Romei who placed second in the javelin with a throw of 42.52 meters. For Romei, it's her second runner-up finish in the OVC outdoor championships, matching her 2017 mark.

Also in the throwing events, Mary Cagle finished 11th in the javelin, while freshman Adrian Rock placed 11th in the shot put and posted a top 10 in the discus event.

In a strong all-around finish, junior Baylee Porch finished fourth in the women's heptathlon with a career-best 4,698 points. The Albertville, Ala., native set her previous best at the Tennessee Relays last month leading an OVC field athlete of the week honor. She won three of the seven individual heptathlon events including the high jump, shot put and javelin.

In her final competition, senior Brittany Cook scored for JSU in Friday's long jump finals and Saturday's triple jump final. The Mobile, Ala., native's leap of 5.73 meters came home seventh in the long jump and eighth in the triple jump.

Freshman Leandra Custodio helped the Gamecocks score on the track by placing in hurdles and relays. After qualifying for the finals of the 400-meter hurdles on Thursday, the native of Paarl, South Africa, finished seventh in the event on Saturday with a time of 1:06.70. In the preliminary round, fellow freshman Ashton Coats had the 11th fastest 400H time, just missing advancing to the finals by four-tenths of a second.

Custodio also ran the opening leg of the 4x400 meter relay with sophomores Andrianna Raggs, Tylynn Register and junior Emily Sorrell. The Gamecocks finished fifth with a time of 3:59.02. In the 4x100 relay, JSU finished seventh with Coats, Raggs and freshmen Reagan Cook and Ayanna Rollins running the event in 49.2 seconds.

In the 800-meter race Sorrell just missed advancing to Saturday's finals with a 10th-place finish in the prelims.