FINAL RESULTS (LIVE STATS) | PREVIEW
NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Track & Field team saw historical performances with regional-worthy times today in Baton Rouge as the Privateers competed at LSU's Alumni Gold. The Men's 4x100 relay team built on what they've been working towards, and two members of that team–
Darryl George Jr. and
Christopher Murphy–found additional success in their solo events.
The Privateers saw their strongest performance of the day at the start with the men's 4x100 relay.
Christopher Murphy,
Madonna Favour,
Darryl George Jr., and
Daryl Bachmann smashed their season best with a time of 39.51. They shaved 0.34 seconds off their previous performance at the Jim Mize Invitational. It becomes the 3
rd-fastest time in school history, and this current squad is also now the second-fastest 4x100 relay team in school history. At the time of the event, this 39.51 time ranked at No. 27 on the D1 rankings and No. 18 on the D1 East rankings. This East placement has put the team into a regional-qualifying position. George Jr. and Murphy saw further success in their individual events, with George Jr. running the men's 400m and Murphy jumping in the men's long jump.
In the men's 400m, George Jr. ran a personal best performance of 47.58. He now holds the 3
rd-fasted 400m time in program history. In the men's long jump, Murphy also made moves with his season-best jump of 7.58m. He leaped past his previous 7.18m season best. His performance today ranked him at No. 42 on the D1 performance list and No. 26 on the D1 East list.
Mason Appleton also ran a personal best today, placing 6
th in the men's 1500m. His time of 3:54.98 moved him from No. 10 to No. 9 on the UNO top performers list for the event.
In the women's 100m hurdles,
Helen Baumgarten finished in the top 10 with a sub-14 performance of 13.96. She was only 0.04 seconds away from her personal best. And in the women's 800m,
Annika Metzger placed 3
rd with a time of 2:13.24. This follows her stellar 2:12.85 performance from last weekend.
Finally, senior
Jace Phelan threw 50.58m in the men's javelin throw, less than two meters away from his current PR.
NEXT UP
New Orleans will travel to Fort Worth, TX next weekend to compete in the Horned Frog Invitational at Texas Christian University on Saturday, May 3. This will be the Privateers' final regular season meet before the Southland Conference Championship Meet in Houston from May 15 to May 17.
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