BRIEFLY: SEMO TRACK ATHLETES SET TO COMPETE AT INDIANA

Several Southeast Missouri State University track athletes will compete in Saturday's Billy Hayes Invitational at Indiana University in an attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championships.

The Southeast women's team will have entries in the 400-meter and 1,600-meter relays, featuring Shannon O'Dell, Yvonne Hente, Shauna Birge and Kim Stewart in the 400, and O'Dell, Hente, Stewart and Tammy Wenkel in the 1,600.

O'Dell and Wenkel will compete in the 400 hurdles while Hente will run the 400.

Southeast's men will be represented by javelin thrower Randy Johnson, who provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships last Friday when he threw 222 feet 3 inches during a meet at Washington University in St. Louis. The automatic qualifying distance is 238 feet.

Johnson broke his own school record in the javelin while Hente set a school record in the 200 last Friday with a time of 24.01.

Wenkel and Birge have qualified for the USA Track & Field Junior National Championships that will be held at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in June. The top finishers in that meet will be named to the USA Junior National Team that will compete in this summer's Junior National Pan Am Games in Cuba.