LSU Invitational Review

(Wayne Davis)

This past weekend a great scored meet was had at Bernie Moore Stadium hosted by LSU. The teams competing consisted of Florida, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Miami and host LSU. It is now becoming increasingly more popular to compete in dual meets and scored competitions early in the season. Florida and Texas A&M have their men and women ranked in the top 10. The competition brought out some very good marks.


WAYNE DAVIS...alone at the top

This outdoor season Wayne Davis of Texas A&M has again staked his claim as the best collegiate high hurdler during the outdoor season. The past few seasons during the indoor season Eddie Lovett of Florida has gotten the better of him. Davis continues to beat him however in the outdoors. This past weekend Davis clearly brought his A game dominating the field to a time of 13.24 (wind-aided). Lovett clearly was not himself finishing in a distance fourth in a time of 13.94.



AARON ERNEST COMING BACK

Aaron Ernest of LSU broke through last outdoor season earning All-American honors indoors and out running the 200 meters. His slim medium height build was the perfect body for a 200 meter runner. This past indoor season Ernest was absent due to injury. He has a slow and steady climb back but the past weekend Ernest climb back to the top and in the championship discussion with a time of 20.14. His performance currently seats him 2nd in the nation behind Dedric Dukes of Florida who he beat. Ernest a junior proved with that race he is capable of winning a national title.



BREWER TAKES FLIGHT

Junior Ciarra Brewer of Florida had a rough ending to her indoor season. Heading into the NCAA Indoor Championship Brewer was practically declared the winner of the triple jump or at worst the runner up before the meet even started. Unfortunately for Brewer that would not happen, Brewer did not even earn All-American honors by not scoring at all. She began the outdoor season a few weeks ago at the Tom Jones Memorial. In her first outing of the season Brewer earned SEC Field Athlete of the Week honors for her Triple Jump performance where she eclipsed 43 feet. She followed that performance up with a mark of  44-6 3/4 to claim the title at the LSU invitational. Her performance catapulted her to the number 2 mark in the country and number 1 mark in the SEC.


UP NEXT...

The regular season is coming to a close this weekend. Next weekend starts the championship post season with conference championship weekend. Currently as of today May 6, 2014 the University of Florida is ranked number 1 in both men's and women's poll. I believe Florida has learned there lesson after a disastrous ending to the indoor season. They know they'll need to be focused and passionate about winning to claim the title both in conference and at the NCAA Outdoor Championship.