Day 2 at ECAC Indoor Championships

Day 2 at ECAC Indoor Championships

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Results

The Empire 8 women's indoor track & field teams completed the two-day competition at the ECAC Indoor Championships on Saturday at Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.

Official NCAA qualifiers will be released on Monday. Those athletes who met NCAA standards will move onto the Indoor Championships in Lincoln, Neb. on March 14-15.

ALFRED
Miasia Hillman set her second school record in two days with her third-place finish in the 200-meter dash Saturday at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) indoor track and field championships.

Hillman finished the 200-meter race Saturday in 25.56 seconds to best her previous school record of 25.83 seconds set Feb. 22 at Cornell University. Hillman took sixth in the 60-meter dash in 7.91 seconds.

ITHACA
Junior Hannah Wright raced to a runner-up finish in the 1,000-meter run. She clocked a season-best finish of 3:02.56. Classmate Leigh Martino added a season-best performance in the 500 to place fifth in 1:19.26. Junior Harmony Graves  crossed the finish line seventh in the 200 dash with a finish of 25.77. Rookie Natalie Meyer finished in a tie for eighth place in the high jump. She cleared 1.64 meters.


NAZARETH
Junior Hannah Brackley was Nazareth's top performer in the women's meet with a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of :58.81.

Brackley's time of :58.81 in the 400 broke the school record again. Brackley's previous best time was :59.53 at the Bomber Invitational on February 15th. Sophomore Gabrielle LeBihan also broke her school record in the 3,000-meter run. LeBihan placed eighth to earn one point for the Golden Flyers as she finished in 10:17.71. Like Brackley, her previous school-record of 10:29.86 was also recorded at the Bomber Invitational. Freshman Emily Thompson also competed in the 3,000-meter run and recorded a personal-best time of 10:31.33. Thompson's former best time in the event was 10:43.79, which she also ran at Ithaca. Junior Michaela Gildemeyer also recorded a personal best time of 2:19.20 in the 800-meter run. With her time, Gildemeyer finished 12th. Gildemeyer set her former personal-best time of 2:20.15 just last week at the NYSCTC Championships.

Sophomore Taylor Pierson, who ranks fifth nationally in the long jump, did not compete at the ECAC meet. She will compete in the event in next week's NCAA Championships in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a freshman last year, Pierson was 10th at the NCAA indoor meet, and she was eighth in the NCAA outdoor meet. The top eight finishers are recognized as All-Americans.


ST. JOHN FISHER
 Morgan Mastin set a new school record after winning her heat in the 200 meter dash with a final time of 26.62.
 
Mastin later teamed up with Chelsea Cleveland, Kaitlin Rizzo and Sydney Saccone for another school record finish, this time in the 4x400 relay as the quartet completed the race in 4:08.53.
 
Kaylee Zbytek raced to an 11th place finish in the 1000 meter race after crossing the finish line in 3:07.81, less than six seconds off the winning pace.  Zbytek also missed breaking her own record in the event by less than two-tenths of a second.
 
Joanna Vassiliou secured a 17th place finish in the weight throw as the senior recorded a mark of 14.29 meters, while teammate Taylor Youngkrans finished 21st with a distance of 14.01 meters.
 
In the long jump, Lisa Knab also finished in 17th place with a leap of 4.96 meters and Nicoletta Lattuca placed 19th.


STEVENS
Sophomore Gladys Njoku established a school record in the high jump with a leap of 1.74 meters to take second overall. The mark of 1.74 meters vaults Njoku to the top mark in NCAA Division III.

Fellow sophomore Amy Regan ran a sub-five-minute mile (4:59.97) to finish second in the event. Regan set a new school record and moves into 21st nationally. She missed first place by just over one second.

Senior Tiffany Evangelou also secured a school record in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.26 seconds. Evangelou came in 13th.

The distance medley relay team of Regan, seniors Ashley Princiotta and Kelly Freed and freshman Melissa Gibbons put together a fourth place showing with a time of 12:24.74. Their time was the fourth school record to be broken over the weekend.

Junior Amira Dardir competed in the pentathlon on Friday and finished seventh overall with 3,029 points. Dardir highlighted her event with a first place leap in the high jump of 1.69 meters.

UTICA
Sophomore jumper Sarah Wiatr awaits her national status in the women's triple jump after leading the Utica College track and field teams Saturday in the final day of the 2014 ECAC Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Wiatr placed third on Friday with a leap of 11.44 meters as she collected six team points for UC and will find out Sunday if her efforts were good enough for NCAA's. She currently is 12th in all of division III on the NCAA indoor qualifying list.

The women's 4x800 meter relay team, consisting of Samantha Prendergast, Samantha Bennett, Jaimee Balloni and Katie Day, registered the other three points for UC with a clock of 9:51.56.