The LSU track teams made it look easy in a meet littered with high-class competition. Top teams such as Baylor, Memphis and TCU traveled to Baton Rouge for the seventh annual LSU Relays at Bernie Moore Stadium. Louisiana schools Grambling, McNeese State, Northwestern State, UL-Lafayette and Southeastern Louisiana also joined in the fray. “I’m excited that we had enough teams here to run a prelim [Friday],” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “Last year we ran a final only. I like running it as often as we can.”LSU emerged from the weekend with 12 individuals and four relay teams qualifying for the NCAA Mideast Regional on May 29-30 in Louisville, Ky. “We really got a lot done at this track meet,” Shaver said in a news release. “We want our athletes to compete in an environment that will help them improve, and we certainly got that this weekend.”The defending NCAA-champion 4×100 men’s relay team  captured a first-place finish by the smallest of margins. LSU senior Jeremy Hicks, junior Will Coppage, sophomore Gabriel Mvumvure and senior Trindon Holliday edged a stellar Baylor team by one-thousandth of a second with a time of 39.70 seconds. In the most entertaining race of the day. Baylor won four relay titles over the weekend. “We really wanted to find out where we were at this point in the season,” Holliday said. “It was a good competition. We knew we weren’t going to be as fast because of the wind, but we were happy with it for the most part.”The men’s 4×200 and 4×400 teams and the women’s 4×400 team also qualified. Individually, Mvumvure arguably had the most successful day on the track for the Tigers. Mvumvure qualified in both the 100-meter and 200-meter events, with times of 10.43 (wind-aided) and 21.15, respectively. The Tigers and Lady Tigers also impressed in the field portion of the Relays. LSU junior Chris Bless, senior Rabun Fox, and freshman Michael Lauro qualified for the men in the hammer throw. Sophomore Mark Deblanc qualified in the javelin and junior Reggie Haslom qualified in the triple jump. Hicks and sophomore Zedric Thomas qualifed in the long jump, and freshman Barrett Nugent qualified in the 110-meter hurdles. LSU sophomore Brittani Carter qualified for the women in the high jump, joined by freshman Rachel Laurent and junior Katelyn Rodrigue in the pole vault.  Senior Anna Lyons qualified in the javelin, with junior Kim Williams qualifying in the hammer throw. Sophomore Tenaya Jones qualified in the 100 meter hurdles. The teams now head to the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas from April 2 to 4.—-Contact Chris Branch at [email protected]