BATON ROUGE, La. – The Alcorn State men's and women's track and field team spent Saturday at the 2022 LSU Alumni Gold Track and Field Meet inside the Bernie Moore Stadium. The Braves faced stiff competition but competed well to put up 17 top-ten finishes.
The women's team had 11 top-ten finishes. The women's 4x400-meter relay team, composed of Jasmine Ward, An'Twanique Kinsler, Akili Pleas-Carne, and Endya Scott, finished sixth with a time of 3:53.36. Please-Carne also had a high placement in the 400-meter hurdles, finishing seventh with a time of 1:03.71.
The men's team had six top-ten finishes, three of which were among the top five. Zayne Palomino competed in the men's high jump with a height of 2.03 meters to place third, Jvontae Noel finished fifth in the men's triple jump with 13.69 meters, and Avaun Morgan finished fourth in the men's javelin throw with a throw of 26.34 meters.
