The women's 200-meter dash from the 2022 Landmark Conference Indoor Championships with Crystal Robinson in first, Helen Davis in second and Abby Giamoni in fourth. Photo courtesy of Susquehanna University Athletic Communications
Posted: Feb 26, 2022
SELINSGROVE, Pa. --- The Moravian University women's indoor track & field squad finished as the runner-up at the 2022 Landmark Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Susquehanna University Saturday. The Greyhounds scored 98 points while the host River Hawks had 144 points.
It marks just the second time in the 15-year history of the Landmark Conference that the Hounds have not won the conference title with Moravian as the runner-up in 2017. There was no meet in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Event Winners
- Junior Maddie Wickel captured the 20-pound weight throw title with a PR toss of 13.70 meters (44-11.5) on her third throw of the first round. Wickel surpassed her previous best by more than three feet
- Sophomore Lexi Groff won the high jump with an All-Atlantic Region Track & Field qualifying height of 1.60 meters (5-3)
- Junior Crystal Robinson took first in the 400-meter dash in an AARTF qualifying time of 1:00.41
- Robinson also won the 200-meter dash with an AARTF qualifying time of 26.16 seconds
- Junior Helen Davis captured the 60-meter dash in a PR and AARTF qualifying time of 7.86 seconds after the top qualifying time of 7.92 seconds
Top 6 Scoring Finishes
- Moravian's 4x200-meter relay squad of Davis, junior Haylee Saylor and freshmen Zoey Bronson and Racquel Ramey was the runner-up with a time of 1:50.69
- Freshman Abby Giamoni was third in the 400-meter dash with a PR time of 1:01.25 while junior Rachel Byrne placed fifth in 1:02.22
- Robinson was fourth in the 60-meter dash in an AARTF qualifying time of 8.09 seconds while Giamoni took sixth in 8.31 seconds. Robinson had reached the finals with a time of 8.04 seconds, and Giamoni ran 8.24 seconds in the preliminaries
- Davis had a runner-up finish in an AARTF qualifying time of 26.36 seconds in the 200-meter dash while Giamoni finished fourth in 27.09 seconds
- Freshman Caillie Fish was fifth in the weight throw with a PR toss of 12.66 meters (41-6.5) to place fifth as she improved her PR by three feet while freshman Arin Peykar had a PR of nearly eight feet with a distance of 12.35 meters (40-6.25) to finish sixth
- Junior Elizabeth DeMassa took sixth in the triple jump with a PR distance of 10.14 meters (33-3.25)
- The Greyhounds 4,000-meter distance medley relay squad of freshmen Hannah Kolonoski, Rylie Murphy, Rachael Goodman and Amber Poniktera finished fifth with a time of 14:08.55
- Peykar had a sixth-place finish in the shot put with a toss of 10.34 meters (33-1.25)
- Senior Santina Burak finished fifth in the 3,000-meter run in a time of 10:38.99
- Moravian's 4x400-meter relay squad of Bronson, Robinson, Byrne and freshman Ashley Rodrigues finished the meet with a third place finish in a time of 4:18.52
Top 10 Finishes
- Senior Emma Marion finished seventh in the 5,000-meter run in a time of 19:21.43 in the first event of the meet to be completed
- DeMassa was seventh in the long jump with a season-best mark of 4.87 meters (15-11.75)
- DeMassa was also seventh in the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles in 10.45 seconds while freshman Lizzy Blaski was ninth in 10.55 seconds
- Senior Natalie Stabilito placed seventh in the mile run in a time of 5:28.54, and she also took seventh in the 3,000-meter run in 10:57.64
- Freshman Amanda Nicolosi was seventh in the pole vault at a PR height of 2.45 meters (8-0.25)
- Bronson took ninth in the 200-meter dash in 28.12 seconds
- Poniktera was ninth in the 800-meter run in 2:36.01
Up Next for the Greyhounds
- Friday-Saturday, March 4-5 at 2022 All-Atlantic Region Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted by Nazareth (N.Y.) College
- Friday-Saturday, March 11-12 at 2022 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field National Championships at JDL Fast Track, Winston-Salem, N.C.