TOWSON, Md. --- The Moravian College women's track & field team, looking for its sixth straight Landmark Conference Outdoor title, have a 45-point lead after six events on the opening day of the 2013 meet being hosted by Goucher College. Moravian has scored 63 points while The Catholic University of America is second with 48 points and Susquehanna University is third with 42 points.
Moravian captured three of the six event champions on the first day of the meet. Sophomore Hailey Kester won the pole vault with an ECAC qualifying height of 3.64 meters (11 feet, 11 ¼ inches), a season-best mark that moves her to 18th on the Track & Field Results Reporting System list that will have the top 22 individuals and top 16 relay teams at the end of the season in each event heading to the NCAA Division III National Championships at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Senior Micah Leonard won the long jump with an ECAC qualifying mark of 5.69 meters (18 feet, eight inches), a career best that moves her to tenth place on the TFRRS list while sophomore Allissa Hoffman won the javelin with a distance of 32.63 meters (107 feet, one inch).
Moravian took the top four spots in the pole vault with junior Allison Vanek finishing as the runner-up to Kester with an ECAC qualifying mark of 3.49 meters (11 feet, 5 ¼ inches). Sophomore Dana Fineman was third at 3.19 meters (ten feet, 5 ½ inches) while junior Amanda Smilgis finished fourth at 3.04 meters (nine feet, 11 ¾ inches).
In the long jump, sophomore Brielle Sutter was second at 5.23 meters (17 feet, two inches) while freshman Christelle Reglas took fifth at 5.05 meters (16 feet, seven inches).
Freshman Karlee Corvasce was the runner-up in the javelin at 32.60 meters (106 feet, 11 inches) while freshman Tyler Clore was fifth at 29.35 meters (96 feet, three inches) and sophomore Jenny Kratch took seventh at 28.58 meters (93 feet, nine inches). Kratch also had Moravian's top distance in the hammer throw finishing fourth at 40.68 meters (133 feet, five inches).
On the track, sophomore Claire DelCasale was fourth in the 10,000-meter run in a time of 40:33.73 while sophomore Jessie Goldberg was eighth at 42:33.96. Sophomore Emily Lambright was fifth in the 1,500-meter run in 4:57.80 while junior Jennifer Smilgis was sixth in 5:03.11.
In preliminary events Saturday, Sutter had the top qualifying time in the 100-meter dash at 12.88 seconds, and she'll be joined in the final on Sunday by freshman Corinne Glass, who was third at 12.92 seconds, sophomore Morgan Redmond, who was fourth in 13.03 seconds, and Reglas, who was sixth in 13.28 seconds. Sutter also had the fastest time in the 400-meter dash preliminaries with an ECAC qualifying time of 59.14 seconds while Glass was second with an ECAC qualifying time of 59.76 seconds and Vanek was seventh in 1:04.11 to make the final.
Glass had the top qualifying mark in the 200-meter dash with an ECAC qualifying time of 26.00 seconds while Sutter was second in an ECAC qualifying time of 26.34 seconds. Redmond was fourth in an ECAC qualifying time of 26.41 seconds while Reglas was fifth in 26.67 seconds. Redmond was also second in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.18 seconds while senior Jacqueline Olmstead made the finals with a mark of 17.03 second, good enough for fifth, and freshman Meghan Newman was sixth at 17.18 seconds.
The second day of the 2013 Landmark Conference Outdoor Championships at Goucher College will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 28th with 14 events to be completed for each gender.
