Track & Field to Host Battle on the Bayou

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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID



BATON ROUGE – The LSU Track & Field teams will certainly make the Bernie Moore Track Stadium their home during the month of April as they are ready to host the USC Trojans, Penn State Nittany Lions and Purdue Boilermakers in their first of three meets this month at the seventh-annual Battle on the Bayou on Saturday.
While early field events are scheduled to get underway at 9:30 a.m. CDT, the this year’s meet kicks into high gear at 11:30 a.m. as the 4x100-meter relays jump start an exciting slate of events on the track. A condensed meet schedule will run through the men’s 4x400-meter relay at 2:25 p.m.
Saturday is “Kids Day” at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium as kids can be an Olympian for a day by running races and receiving medals. Inflatables will also be set up for kids attending the meet to enjoy.
Delta Timing will provide live results from the meet as fans can follow the Tigers and Lady Tigers in action on the day at http://results.deltatiming.com/lsu. Fans can also receive live updates by following @LSUTrackField on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lsutrackfield and Instagram at http://instagram.com/lsutrackfield and by liking LSU Track & Field on Facebook at http://facebook.com/lsutrackfield.
National Rankings
As expected, LSU’s teams are the top-ranked teams in the field at the seventh-annual Battle on the Bayou as the Lady Tigers are up one spot to No. 3 and the Tigers check in at No. 7 in the latest national power ranking released Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Associations.
USC also features two of the nation’s top-10 teams as the Women of Troy are ranked No. 6 nationally and the Trojans are ranked No. 10 nationally in this week’s USTFCCCA power ranking. Purdue ...

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