OVC Indoor Championship Results

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Laveeta Oliver and Amber Wiley highlighted Jacksonville State's final day at the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday at the Wilma Rudolph Track in the Gentry Center.

Oliver broke her JSU record with a 7.01 in Friday's 55-meter dash preliminaries and ran a 7.03 to place second in the finals. Oliver also set the JSU 200-meter dash record on Friday, but struggled to a seventh place finish with a 25.45 on Saturday.

Amber Wiley broke her school record of 11-feet, 11 ¾ inches with a pole vault of 12-feet for a third place finish. Chelsea Denson was seventh and Ericka Markiewicz was 9th with vaults of 10-feet, six inches.

Elizabeth Bond turned in a fourth place finish with a time of 56.28 in the 400-meter dash and the 4x400 relay team of Bond, Latasha Sturkie, Natasha Sturkie, and Tasheilra Jones posted a 3:56.26 for fifth.

The Gamecocks moved up one spot to sixth in the team standings with 54 points. Eastern Illinois repeated as the team champion with 142 points followed by Eastern Kentucky with 128 points, Southeast Missouri State, Austin Peay, and Murray State.

Jacksonville State begins its 2010 Outdoor Track and Field schedule, competing in the Southern Invitational at Birmingham-Southern College on Sat., March 13 in Birmingham, Ala.