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Led by Hill, women's track and field impresses at UNH Wildcat Invitational

Ayden Eickhoff jumped into seventh place on Bates' all-time performance list in the outdoor 1,500-meter run with a winning time of 4:41.82 at the UNH Wildcat Classic on April 16, 2016. (File photo by Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

DURHAM, N.H. -- Led by two team record-setting performances by junior Allison Hill, Bates women's track and field created movement up and down its all-time performance list Saturday at the UNH Wildcat Invitational.

Competing against Division I New Hampshire and Maine as well as Division III Lesley College, the Bobcats won three events and scored 168 points, proving their mettle against the first-place Wildcats (209), the second-place Black Bears (193) and Lesley (16).

Hill (Brunswick, Maine), the current NESCAC Track Performer of the Week, won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.57 seconds, clipping 0.26 seconds off of her own team record in the event. Hill crossed the finish line 0.02 seconds ahead of Maine junior Grace MacLean. The time moves Hill into a tie for seventh place on the national Division III performance list.

Hill also tied the team record in the 200-meter dash, finishing second out of 24 women in a time of 25.49 seconds. Hill's time ties the team record set by Dana Lindauer in 2011 and it ranks 28th in Division III nationally.

Other top-three and notable performances by Bates included:

  • Running in her first outdoor 1,500 meter race, first-year Ayden Eickhoff (Corvallis, Mont.) jumped into seventh place on Bates' all-time performance list with a winning time of 4:41.82.
  • Sophomore Sally Ceesay (Bronx, N.Y.) won the triple jump with a top effort of 38-2, just 2 3/4 inches shy of the team record she set a week ago.
  • Sophomore Katherine Cook (South Burlington, Vt.) became Bates' third-fastest outdoor 3,000-meter runner, placing second out of 19 athletes in 10:19.16. Junior Sadie James (Avon, Maine) was third in the race at 10:38.85.
  • Sophomore Srishti Sunil (Bangalore, India) placed second to Maine's Ariel Clachar in the long jump with a top mark of 17-9. Sunil also placed second to Ceesay in the triple jump at 35-8, moving from ninth place to fourth on Bates' all-time performance list.
  • First-year Katie Hughes (Pittsfield, Maine) placed third in the discus throw with a personal-best mark of 115-2, vaulting onto Bates' all-time performance list in the event in fifth place.
  • Hughes also surpassed her personal best mark in the shot put by one foot, finishing fourth overall at 36-9.5 to move from eighth to sixth place on Bates' all-time performance list, half an inch ahead of assistant coach Erika Bristol '00.
  • Sophomore Lindsey Beauregard (Hollis, N.H.) placed third in the long jump in a personal-best 16-10.5, moving onto Bates' all-time performance list in the event at No. 6.
  • Senior Alexis Dickinson (Brunswick, Maine) placed third in the 100-meter dash in 12.71 seconds. She also ran a personal-best 26.27 in the 200, moving up into seventh place on the team's all-time performance list.
  • Senior Isabelle Unger (Charlotte, Vt.) finished the 3,000-meter steeplechase second in 11:25.23, the All-American's personal best time in the event by more than 15 seconds. Unger now ranks 27th in the event in Division III.
  • Sophomore Julia Nemy (San Francisco, Calif.) was third out of 16 in the 800 meters with a time of 2:20.27.
  • First-year Sarah Rothmann (Andover, Mass.) was third in the 1,500 at 4:52.60.

Bates next competes at the Aloha Relays, at Bowdoin next Saturday at 11am.

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