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Hounds Run in Ursinus Bow Tie Invitational

Junior Tara Smurla runs during the 2024 Moravian Indoor Meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse. Photo by Cosmic Fox Media / Matthew Levine '11
Junior Tara Smurla runs during the 2024 Moravian Indoor Meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse. Photo by Cosmic Fox Media / Matthew Levine '11

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. --- The Moravian University women's indoor track & field team had its distance student-athletes race in the Ursinus College Bow Tie Invitational Saturday in the opening weekend of the season. 

Moravian Top 10 Finishers

  • Junior Tara Smurla finished as the runner-up in the 5,000-meter run with an indoor personal best and All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference qualifying time of 17:39.21, the sixth fastest indoor time in program history
  • Senior Rachael Goodman was second in the mile run in a time of 5:35.15 while senior Amber Poniktera placed seventh in the race at 5:46.37 and junior Elena Bocchetti took eighth in 5:48.71
  • Freshman Katherine Board recorded a third place finish in the 3,000-meter run with a time of 11:48.81
  • Senior Rylie Murphy finished fifth in the 800-meter run at 2:37.51
  • Freshman Emerson Beamer placed sixth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 1:09.18

Up Next for the Greyhounds

  • Saturday, January 18 host Moravian Indoor Meet at Lehigh University's Rauch Fieldhouse, 10:00 a.m.
  • Saturday, January 25 at Franklin & Marshall College Coach I Invitational