Ithaca Wins Title; Hillman Sweeps State Sprint Competition

Ithaca Wins Title; Hillman Sweeps State Sprint Competition

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Empire 8 athletes had a solid showing in day two of the NYSCTC Championships at Fisher's Polisseni Track and Field Complex.

ALFRED
Junior Miasia Hillman won the 100-meter dash in 12.08 seconds and took the 200-meter dash in 25.08 seconds. Both times are new AU school records. The 100-meter time sets a new St. John Fisher facility record, while the 200-meter mark ties the facility record. The AU women's team finished in 10th place in championships.
 
Senior Chelsea Hall scored points for the Saxons with her eighth-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles (16.84 seconds). It marks the second time Hall has scored points for her team in the state championships. She turned in a school record-setting performance in placing third in the heptathlon last weekend.
 
Also on Saturday, freshman Mary Baughman was ninth in the 5,000-meter run (18:27.88); senior Kari Blatz took 18th in the shot put (9.69 meters); and junior Tracie Forrester was 19th in the 400-meter hurdles (1:14.76).
 

ITHACA
The Ithaca College women's track & field team won its sixth straight and 22nd overall New York State Collegiate Track Conference outdoor championship Saturday at St. John Fisher. Ithaca recorded 166 points to win the meet. Freshman Brandy Smith was named NYSCTC Women's Rookie of the Meet, while head coach Jennifer Potter and her coaching staff received Coach Staff of the Meet nods.
 
Ithaca hit 16 ECAC qualifiers and had 23 individual and two relay All-NYSCTC finishes during day two of competition.
 
Ithaca had a trio of ECAC qualifiers in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and two in three additional events. Graduate student Carly Graham placed third in the steeple in 11:22.30. Senior Allison Bartkowiak ran fifth in 11:40.26 and junior Carolyn Malone placed sixth in 11:54.13. Junior Leigh Martino placed third and freshman Julia Jones fourth in the 400 hurdles with times of 1:05.60 and 1:05.67. Juniors Alexa Rick and Emily Smith placed third and eighth, respectively, in the 5K. Rick clocked in at 17:55.68 and Smith at 18:20.30. Junior Harmony Graves was the runner-up in the 100 dash with a time of 12.28. Sophomore Sarah Werner placed fourth in 12.57 and sophomore Lizzi Dowling earned seventh with a 12.83 finish. Graves and Werner hit the ECAC qualifier.
 
Graves also clocked an ECAC-good finish of 25.55 in the 200 to earn silver. Sophomore Eliza Dewart claimed one point with a 26.83 eighth-place finish.
 
Rick raced to a sixth-place, ECAC-qualifying finish of 4:45.54 in the 1,500. Sophomore Anna Fayplaced eighth in the event with a time of 4:50.64. She also tallied eighth in the 800 run with a time of 2:24.14.
 
The Bombers' 4x100 and 4x400 teams hit ECAC qualifiers to both place third. The 4x100 team finished in 49.58 and the 4x400 in 3:59.83.
 
Three additional ECAC qualifiers came in Saturday's field events. Junior Emilia Scheemakerplaced second in the triple with a mark of 11.68 meters, Smith won the discus with a 41.33-meter heave and also recorded bronze in the shot put with a toss of 12.09 meters.
 
Dewart placed fifth in the 400 and sophomore Christine Kelly seventh with times of 1:00.06 and 1:00.74. Junior Christine Benway ran third in the 100 hurdles crossing the finish line in 16.29.
 
Senior Elaine Abdulky was fifth in the discus with a throw of 35.09 meters and junior Corrine Taylorrecorded an 11.29-meter mark to place sixth in the shot.


NAZARETH
Junior Michaela Gildemeyer and Hannah Brackley each won events in the women's meet while Jake Lafaver claimed second in the 800-meter run in the men's meet. Gildemeyer's first-place time of 2:13.7 in the 800 was the best by nearly five seconds, and it beat Nazareth's school record, which had stood for six years.

The Golden Flyers' women's team finished eighth with 51 points. Ithaca claimed first with 166 points, followed by St. Lawrence with 152.2 points, and Rochester with 149.5 points.

Brackley took first in the 400-meter dash by .17 seconds as she finished in :57.94 to earn 10 points, and she was fourth in the 200-meter event (:26.25) for five additional points. Sophomore Gabrielle LeBihan added an additional five points with a fourth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run as she recorded a school record with a time of 17:56.19. Freshman Emily Thompson earned another two points with a seventh-place finish (18:15.77) in the 5,000. Freshman Jamie DiSalvo (19.14.98) and sophomore Blair Meeson(19:37.35) also competed and finished 14th and 16th, respectively.

The Golden Flyers' 4x400 and 4x100-meter relay teams also both tallied five points with a pair of fourth-place finishes. Gildemeyer and Brackley were joined by juniors Sibongile Chisi and Allison Wean in the 4x400 as they finished in 4:02.56. In the 4x100 event, Brackley, sophomores Amanda Entress and Taylor Pierson, and Chisi teamed together to finish in :50.20.

Nazareth already had nine total points following a fourth-place finish from Pierson in the long jump and a fifth-place from Chisi in the pole vault. Chisi broke her week-old school record by vaulting 3.17 meters (10 feet, 4 1/4 inches) while Pierson leaped 5.52 meters (18 feet, 1 1/2 inches).

Entress also finished 10th in the long jump (5.22 m.; 17 ft., 1 1/2 in.) and 11th in the triple jump (10.41 m.; 34 ft., 1 3/4 in.). Additionally, freshman Kelsey Hill was 13th in the triple jump with a mark of 10.3 meters (33 ft., 9 1/2 in.), while graduate student Jessica Hogan was 20th in the women's hammer with a throw of 35.1 meters (115 ft., 1 9/10 in.).

ST. JOHN FISHER
Paige Willson continued her dominance in the shot put, taking first place in a new school-record of 12.68 meters. 

Fisher came on strong at the right time in the 4 x 4 with an ECAC qualifying time of 4:03.53 composed of Kaitlin Rizzo, Chelsea Cleveland, Sydney Saccone, and Morgan Mastin good for a fifth place finish.

Lisa Knab earned four points for Fisher in the high jump.  She jumped to a height of 1.53 meters.

In other field action, senior Megan Vona set the school-record with a 10.64 mark in the triple jump to pick up sixth place on the day.

Sarah Coon set a new college mark in the 1500 meter run finishing in ninth place with a time of 4:53.73, nearly hitting the ECAC qualifying mark. 

Fisher earned a pair of top 10 finishes in the 100 meter hurdles with Melissa Vaughn and Allison Corretore in fifth and seventh respectively in times of 16.42 and 16.82 seconds. 

Freshman Alyssa Mountain notched a point for Fisher in the discuss throw with a 32.91 meter heave.


UTICA
senior Katie Day led the way with 15 points working a victory in the 3000 steeplechase (11:.20) for ten points and also placing fourth in the 800 run (2:21.33) grabbing five points.

Classmate Anastasia Bowden totaled ten team points in her two sprints clocking a time of 58.11 in the 400 dash placing second while finishing seventh in the 200 with a watch of 26.82.

Sophomore Sarah Wiatr leaped to a third place finish in the triple with a jump of 11.56 meters, registering six points.

Alexis Edwards tossed the shot put 11.74 meters as she collected four points while placing fifth.