Charleston Southern University Athletics
Charleston Southern
Jean, Houston blaze meet records as Lady Bucs open Big South Championships
2/21/2013 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Charleston Southern's Gabby Houston and Meme Jean set Big South Conference Championship meet records highlight the first day of the 2013 Big South Conference Indoor Track Championships at JDL Fast Track.
((Full team results were unavailable at time of release. CSU was unofficially sixth in women's team points with 15.))
Jean finished .03 seconds off her CSU school record and set a new Big South Conference meet record with an 8.37 in the 60 meter hurdles. She topped her old meet record from 2012 of 8.44.
Houston ran a 7.42 in the 60 meters to set a new Big South Championship record. She won qualifying by .08 seconds and will try to add to her growing career list of championships tomorrow in the 60 meter final at noon.
Houston is also set for the 200-meter final on Friday. She was second in qualifying with a 24.52, just .03 behind Erica Peake of Coastal Carolina.
Sophomore Joshlyn Noga took third in the shot put with a throw of 13.84 meters. She threw the same in the finals, finishing .07 meters out of second. Daisy Whitaker finished ninth in the event by the slimmest of margins. Her throws of 12.65 meters was .03 out of scoring position and .15 meters from the top five.
The Lady Bucs also turned in a solid finish in the distance medley relay finishing third. Eloisa Paredes, LaQuestis Scott, Adrienne Cuff, and Jessie Dotson ran a time of 12:20.29 to boost CSU's scoring total.
Senior Deona Jones took sixth in the long jump with a jump of 5.36 meter for her best jump of the season and to pick up three points for the Lady Bucs in the event.
Charleston Southern has a chance to score twice in the 60-meter hurdles. Jean will chase her new Big South meet record and Rashida Dooling finished eighth in the 60-meter hurdles. She qualified for tomorrow's final with an 8.96.
Junior Mary Elliott will run in the 400 meter finals. She qualified eighth in the event with a personal best 58.57 seconds. Freshman LaQuestis Scott was 16th in the sprint.
Friday's slate of events begins with the men's and women's mile at 10 a.m.
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