EUGENE, Ore. -- Bethune-Cookman's 2017-18 track season concluded with the women's 4X100 relay team finishing 21st at the NCAA National Outdoor Track and Field National Championship semifinals Thursday at Historic Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus.

Sade McCreath-Tardiel, Jonina Brinson, Monae Nichols and Quamecha Morrison posted a 44.97 the fourth fastest time in school history, but it was good enough to advance to Saturday's finals. The quartet posted the school record of 44.49 two weeks ago at the NCAA East Preliminary at USF.

Oregon (42.95) and Auburn (43.11) finished 1-2 in B-CU's heat. Earlier, LSU, which set the NCAA record with a 42.05 last month, set a Hayward Field record with the day's best time of 42.09. Also advancing: USC, Kentucky, Florida State and  Alabama.

Brinson, a senior, won the long jump and was field performer at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference indoor championships back in February. Nichols, a freshman, took the outdoor long jump championship, while Morrison, a junior, swept the indoor and outdoor high jumps and finished tenth in the event at the NCAA Indoor championship.  

While B-CU's season over, competition continues for Morrison and McCreath-Tardiel, who will will compete for berths in either the Athletics World Cup July 14-15 in London or the 2018 NACAA Senior Championships August 10-12 in Toronto.

Morrison has qualified for the USA National Championships in Des Moines, Iowa June 21-24 in the High  Jump on the virtue of her Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Indoor Championship mark of 1.85 meters. Morrison will vie for a berth on the USA National Team competing  in London and Toronto.

A Canadian citizen, McCreath-Tardiel will run for a berth on her national team at the Ontario Outdoor Track and Field Championship Series in Toronto, June 22-24, 2018 and the Canadian Track & Field Championships held in Ottawa July 3-8. She's qualified in both the 100 meters on the basis of her 11.5 at the Tom Jones Invitational and the 200 meters on her 23.91 posted at the North Florida Collegiate meet.