EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Competing in the Ohio Valley Conference Championships over the course of the past three days, the Tennessee State Tigerbelles came in 6^th place out of 10 teams with 50 total points.
 
TSU earned two medals in the three-day event as Elaina Housworth paced the Tigers with a 1^st place in the triple jump with a leap of 12.65m to earn 10 points. The 4 x 100 relay team of Giah Thomas, Miracle Johnson, Janiyah Townsend, and Sanura Branigan clocked a 45.94 to come in 3^rd place while earning TSU six points.
 
Starting with the heptathlon, Natalya Bryant took home 5^th place to give TSU four points. She came in 2^nd in the 200m and 800m in the heptathlon event.
 
Moving on to the field events, Housworth claimed a 4^th place finish in the long jump with a 5.78m jump to give TSU five more points. Behind Housworth in the triple jump was Catherine Forbes who placed 5^th with an 11.63m leap to put four points on the board.
 
Leilany Laureano placed seventh in the shot put with a 12.68m throw to gain two points while she finished in 8^th in the discus throw with a toss of 40.32m to earn a point.
 
Moving onto the running events, TSU earned five points in the 100m dash as Johnson placed fifth after clocking a 12.14 to earn four points followed by Serenity Harry who came in 8^th to earn one point. Branigan logged a sixth-place finish in the 200m with a time of 24.88 to get three points, while placing 4^th in the 400m with a 55.57 to get five points.
 
The 4 x 400 relay team of Thomas, Sydney McGee, Johnson, and Branigan came in 6^th with a 3:56 to earn three points.
 
TSU will now send Housworth and the 4 x100 relay team to regionals as they earned top-three finishes.