BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College women's indoor track & field team had four ECAC qualifiers and set a pair of school records in the opening action of the year at Lehigh University's Fast Times Before Finals Saturday in Rauch Fieldhouse with school marks from senior Jenny Kratch and junior Corinne Glass.
Kratch placed third in the 20-pound weight throw with an ECAC qualifying toss of 14.78 meters (48 feet, 6 inches), the best mark in school history by one inch, and she broke a mark set back in in 1991 while Glass was ninth in the 500-meter run with a school-record and ECAC qualifying time of 1:20.10 to break the previous mark by a full second.
Senior Brielle Sutter was third in the 200-meter dash with an ECAC qualifying time of 26.38 seconds, beating the ECAC mark by 0.02 seconds while freshman Melissa Cheong was sixth in the long jump with an ECAC qualifying distance of 5.35 meters (17 feet, 6.25 inches). Cheong also tied for seventh in the high jump in her first collegiate meet with a height of 1.50 meters (4 feet, 11 inches).
The Hounds had seven other top 10 finishers including freshman Casie Cronk tying for third in the high jump at 1.55 meters (5 feet, 1 inch) which is tied for eighth in the Greyhound record books. Freshman Beth Davies placed sixth in the pole vault on Friday evening at 2.90 meters (9 feet, 6.25 inches) while sophomore Kiara Bright was seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 10.33 meters (33 feet, 10.75 meters).
In the throws, freshman Ciara Stewart took sixth in the shot put at 11.24 meters (36 feet, 10.5 inches) while junior Tyler Clore finished seventh in the weight throw at 12.18 meters (39 feet, 11.5 inches) and junior Abbey Clark was 10th at 11.91 meters (39 feet, 1 inch).
Senior Brianna Wright was eighth in the preliminaries of the 60-meter dash in 8.09 seconds, just 0.04 seconds shy of the time needed to qualify for the ECAC meet in March.
Moravian is not scheduled to return to action until Saturday, January 24, 2015 when the squad splits to compete at the Princeton University Tiger Open and the Collegeville Classic hosted by Ursinus College.
