Miami University
BGSU Women's Team Challenge
RedHawks Take Second at BGSU Challenge
1/15/2012 12:00:00 AM | Women's Track and Field
Jan. 14, 2012
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - - Despite not competing for over a month, the Miami University women's track and field team had a strong showing at the BGSU Team Challenge Saturday at Bowling Green's Perry Field House, taking second place behind a pair of event wins and six runner-up finishes.
Miami finished with 122 points while Western Michigan won the seven-team meet with 151.66 points. The RedHawks were second of the five Mid-American Conference teams at the meet, as the host Falcons took third with 70.33 points, Toledo (62) was fourth and Ball State (55) fifth. Wright State and IPFW rounded out the team scoring in sixth and seventh, respectively.
"We didn't put everyone in their main events but even still, in all areas the ladies competed really well," head coach Kelly Phillips said.
A pair of RedHawks shared the pole vault title as seniors Hannah Tabler (Wapakoneta, Ohio) and Sarah Kinnaman (Carmel, Ind.) each cleared 3.65m/11-11.75, marking personal bests for both as they are now tied for fourth in school history with sophomore Kori Tatman (Amanda, Ohio), who placed fourth Saturday by also topping 11-11.75 but in more attempts. No jumpoff occurred so Tabler and Kinnaman each earned nine points for Miami while Tatman gained another four.
Senior Alexandra Roberts (Hilliard, Ohio) was Miami's other event winner, doing so in the shot put for the second time in as many meets this season. She fired a season-best heave of 15.09m/49-6.25 to earn 10 points while winning by over four feet. Her mark was the second-best throw in indoor school history behind only her school-record heave from last year.
Senior Krista Stillson (Naperville, Ill.) took third in the triple jump with a season-best leap of 11.07m/36-4, gaining six points.
On the track, the RedHawks claimed 12 points in the 60m dash finals as senior Diona Graves (Fenton, Mo.) was the runner-up in 7.60 seconds while junior Layne Baggett (Pittsburgh, Pa.) took fourth in 7.85, after placing third in the prelims. Graves picked up another eight points in the 200m dash as she was the runner-up in that event as well, clocking 24.84, losing by just six one-thousandths of a second. Senior Rachael Clay (Rossford, Ohio) and freshman Gretchen Walter (Piqua, Ohio) gained an extra three points in the 200m dash by taking fifth (25.73) and sixth (25.89), respectively, with Clay's mark a personal best.
Miami claimed second and third in the 3000m run as senior Jillian Dickman (Madison, Ohio) and freshman Jess Hoover (Hilliard, Ohio) combined to earn 14 points, clocking 10:07.45 and 10:15.95, respectively. Redshirt freshman Melissa Girgis (Worthington, Ohio) crossed in second in the 5000m run in 18:08.33 for another eight points while freshman Mattie Moncayo (Lexington, Ohio) was fourth in 18:28.64 for four more points.
Freshman Taylor Wickware (Geneva, Ill.) picked up another runner-up finish and eight points for the `Hawks in the 800m run, clocking a personal-best 2:18.42 while sophomore Erin Riley (Avon Lake, Ohio) was fifth in 2:21.79 to grab an extra two points. In the 400m dash, freshman Charlotte Myers (Bexley, Ohio) claimed third to earn six points in 59.17 in her first individual collegiate race. Classmate Elisa Frazier (Williamsville, N.Y.) nabbed another four points with her fourth-place finish in the mile run in a personal-best 5:08.07.
Redshirt sophomore Ashley Zaper (Whitehouse, Ohio) was fourth in the 60m hurdles finals in a personal-best 8.81, which ranks her ninth in school history and earned four points for the `Hawks. Zaper also competed in the long jump, recording a distance of 5.35m/17-6.75 to place fifth, good for two more points.
Miami garnered a sixth runner-up finish in the 4x400m relay, as junior Katie Scannell (Cortland, Ohio), Myers, Clay and Walter combined to clock 3:50.10, which is eighth in Miami history. They finished just 13-hundredths of a second behind the Broncos, who clocked 3:49.97.
The RedHawks return to action next weekend at Indiana University's Gladstein Invitational in Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 20-21.
--MURedHawks.com--
