After setting the table on the first two days of the Southeastern Conference track and field championships, the LSU women were poised to score a lot of points on the final day of the competition.

When they went back to work, an avalanche of points put the competition away as No. 1 LSU picked up its first SEC outdoor title since 2012 late Saturday night at James G. Pressly Stadium in Gainesville, Florida.

The SEC outdoor title for coach Dennis Shaver’s team was the 14th in program history to go with 12 indoor crowns.

Brianna Lyston and Michaela Rose raced to individual titles as LSU racked up 115 points on Saturday alone. The Tigers scored in 12 of 13 events contested on the meet’s final day with at least one top-three finish in nine of those events.

Starting the day with 11 points after eight events, LSU stormed to the top with 126 total points to win it all. They topped 2023 champion Arkansas (110) with Florida (101), Texas A&M (74) and Georgia (72) rounding out the top five.

On the men’s side, Arkansas scored 110 points to win for the fourth consecutive year. Alabama (104), Texas A&M (103), Florida (100) and LSU (66½) following.

As usual, the sprinters and hurdlers did most of the damage for the women after they piled up 16 scoring opportunities in qualifying on Thursday and Friday to go with two highly-rated relay teams.

Seventy of LSU’s 115 points on Saturday came in races of 400 meters or less — 20 in the 100 meters, 19 in the 100-meter hurdles, 13 in the 400 hurdles, 11 in the 200, six in the 4×100 relay and one in the 400.

Rose and Lorena Rangel Batres did their part as well with Rose winning the 800 meters and Rangel Batres scoring in both the 800 and 1,500 for 22 team points in the two middle-distance events.

Lyston won the 100 in 10.91 seconds, the second-fastest wind-legal time in the nation this spring. Thelma Davies was third at 11.01 and Tima Godbless was fifth with a personal-record time of 11.15.

Those three actually got the ball rolling Saturday with a third-place finish in the first running event — the 4×100 relay. Lyston, Davies and Godbless were joined by Leah Phillips in clocking a season-best time of 42.49.

The points continued to roll in with the hurdles — first the short hurdles, which produced 19 points, and then the intermediates, which picked up 13 more.

Shani’a Bellamy led a 2-3-4 finish in the 100 hurdles with a time of 12.81 seconds, while Phillips (12.86) and Alia Armstrong (13.04) followed.

In the 400 hurdles, Bellamy (56.40) took third while Garriel White was fifth (57.58) and Phillips sixth (57.75).

To cap off the barrage of sprint points, Davies was third in the 200 with a PR of 22.17 and Lyston was fourth (11.37).

Rose and Rangel Batres also pitched in with Rose setting a meet record of 1 minute, 58.89 seconds in the 800, while Rangel Batres took fifth in 2:03.36 after finishing second in the 1,500 with a 4:12.78.

Lyston, Bellamy, Rose and White also finished fifth with a time of 3:28.08 in the 4×400 relay to close the meet.

And Ella Onojuvwevwo was eighth in the 400 with a 50.86.

In field events, Morgan Smalls was third in the triple jump at 42 feet, 11 inches, while Fingers was fifth with a 42-6.

Estel Valeanu took third in the discus (185-10) and Smalls was sixth in the high jump (5-10½).

The men’s team had three SEC champions.

Claudio Romero claimed the discus title with a throw of 206-9, Godson Oghenebrume won the 100 meters in 9.99 seconds and the 4×100 relay unit won in 38.19 seconds.

Myles Thomas, who was fourth in the open 100 with a PR of 10.04, Da’Marcus Fleming and Jaiden Reid got the baton around to Ogehenebrume to clock the second-fastest time in school history — only behind the 37.90 set a year ago.

LSU claimed the sprint relay title for the seventh time in the past eight SEC meets.

Jahiem Stern was fifth in the 110 hurdles (13.54) as was the 4×400 relay team, which had a season-best 3:01.28.

Beau Domingue tied for sixth in the pole vault (17- ¾), Fleming was seventh in the 200 (20.46), Sean Burrell was eighth in the 400 hurdles (51.18) and Jevan Parara had a PR in taking eighth in the discus (179-2).

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