HAMMOND, La. – Southeastern Louisiana will have its final tune-up before the Southland Conference Indoor Championships when it heads to Baton Rouge Friday for the LSU Twilight at the Carl Maddox Field House.

    The Southland Championships are scheduled to run Wednesday through Thursday at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Ala.

    Friday's meet at LSU will feature Southeastern, LSU, Dillard, Hinds, Loyola-New Orleans, Nicholls State, Meridian, New Orleans, Southern and Tulane. Field events are scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. with the track events getting underway at 3:30 p.m.

     Links to live stats, provided by LSU, will be available on the track and field schedule page at www.LionSports.net.

    "This is our last tune-up moving into the championships," Southeastern head coach Sean Brady said. "We'll be five days out Friday. We're not going to give them a big load but we wanted to give them an opportunity to compete and just stay sharp heading into the championships. We just want to work on the fine-tuning and on some of the technical aspects of competition. We're going to go in there with the mindset of getting a few things accomplished that will better prepare us for the championships."

    Southeastern brought four athletes to the Samford Open this past Saturday with all four finishing in the top five. Junior Devin King earned Southland Field Athlete of the Week honors on Monday after setting a meet record in winning the pole vault. Senior sprinter Sharrona Williams tied her school record in the 60 meters. Sophomore Marcell Kecskemety, competing in his first meet as a Lion, had Southeastern's best shot put of the season, while senior Julian Maze added a fifth-place finish in the triple jump.