Rolland reaches NAIA's A and B marks at Cowboy Relays

NEW ORLEANS — (UPDATED 3/11/13) --  Xavier University of Louisiana sophomore Devinn Rolland produced top-four finishes Saturday in the long jump and 100-meter dash at the McNeese Cowboy Relays and reached A- and B-standard qualifying marks for the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Rolland met the NAIA's A-standard in the long jump for the second time in as many meets this year. She jumped a season-best 18 feet, 9¼ inches and finished second. Rolland met the B-standard in the 100, placing fourth out of 44 runners in 12.06 seconds in a multi-heat event.

Rolland had the same distance as the long jump winner, Jasmine Ellis of Central Arkansas, but Ellis was awarded first place because her second-best jump was longer than Rolland's.

Xavier's Zahri Jackson was third in the mile in 5:02.44 and missed the NAIA's B-standard by 17-hundredths of a second.

The NAIA's national meet will be May 23-25 at Marion, Ind. The next meet for Xavier's men and women will be the Louisiana Classics at Lafayette, La., next Saturday.

Here are all the Xavier results from the McNeese Cowboy Relays:

Women
100: Devinn Rolland, 4th in 12:06; Chelsea James, tied for 16th in 12.42
Mile: Zahri Jackson, 3rd in 5:02.44
3,000: Hannah Finnegan, 8th in 11.42.62
Long Jump: Devinn Rolland, 2nd in 5.72 meters (18 feet, 9¼ inches)
400-Meter Relay: Tayler Louis, Chelsea James, Chartia Hurt, Devinn Rolland, 11th in 48.60
800-Meter Relay: Chelsea James, Tramaine Shannon, Chartia Hurt, Devinn Rolland, 6th in 1:42.67
1,600-Meter Relay: Tramaine Shannon, Zahri Jackson, Tayler Louis, Chartia Hurt, 10th in 4:06.69
Team Scoring: 1, McNeese State 146½. 2, Southeastern Louisiana 84. 3, Central Arkansas 77½. 4, Northwestern State 70. 5, Nicholls State 55. 6, Jackson State 45. 7, (tie) Louisiana-Monroe 35; Southern 35. 9, Xavier 32. 10, Mississippi Valley 24. 11, Grambling 22. 12, Tulane 21. 13, Southern Miss 17.

Men
Long Jump: Christopher Kennie, 8th in 6.74 meters (22 feet, 1½ inches)
Mile: Kwame Jackson, 19th in 4:47.65
3,000: Kwame Jackson, 11th in 9:30.39; David Holobowicz, 17th in 9:47.49
Team Scoring: 1, McNeese State 120. 2, Southeastern Louisiana 104. 3, Grambling 103½. 4, Northwestern State 83. 5, Central Arkansas 64. 6, Southern 43½. 7, Louisiana-Monroe 42. 8, Southern Miss 30. 9, Tulane 28. 10, Dillard 13. 11, Stephen F. Austin 8. 12, Mississippi Valley 7. 13, Xavier 1.

Results (PDF file)

By Ed Cassiere, SID
XULAATHLETICS
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA