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Women's track sets five team records, places fourth at NESCAC Championships

Allison Hill (left) finished second to Tufts' Marilyn Hill (right) in the 100-meter hurdles by 0.02 seconds, breaking her own team record in the process. Hill also won the 400-meter hurdles at the meet on April 30, 2016. (Geoffrey Bolte/Clarus Studios, Inc.)

AMHERST, Mass. -- The Bates women's track and field team placed fourth out of 11 teams at the NESCAC Championships for the second straight year on Saturday, breaking five team records in the process.

Bates scored 106 points, 26 more than it did a year ago in also placing fourth. Williams won its third straight conference title with 165, followed by Middlebury (140), Tufts (123), Bates (106), Colby (89), Bowdoin (56), Wesleyan (42), Connecticut College (35), Trinity (33), Amherst (19) and Hamilton (9).

Junior Allison Hill (Brunswick, Maine) won the conference title in the 400-meter hurdles and placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, meanwhile lowering her own team record to 14.50 seconds. 

Sophomore Sally Ceesay (Bronx, N.Y.) also won her first conference title in the triple jump, breaking her own team record in the process with a top mark of 38 feet, 11.5 inches. Ceesay's previous team record was 38-8.25.

Senior captain Alexis Dickinson (Brunswick, Maine) shattered Bates' 100-meter dash record with her second-place time of 12.14 seconds, 0.28 seconds lower than the previous mark of 12.42 owned by Angeleque Hartt.

Meanwhile fellow sophomores Katherine Cook (South Burlington, Vt.) and Srishti Sunil (Bangalore, India) also established new team standards in the 5,000 meters and long jump, respectively.

Bates also missed the team 4x100 relay record by 0.04 seconds, finishing third in 48.50 seconds on the legs of Ceesay, Hill, Dickinson and junior Claire Markonic (Millerton, N.Y.).

Bates' top-eight, point-scoring performances at the meet included:

  • Hill won Bates' first NESCAC title since 2014 by taking first place in the 400 hurdles, in just the second time she has run the race in the past two years. Hill's time of 1:02.85 moves her into second place on Bates' all-time list, trailing only Izzy Alexander's record 1:01.78.
  • Hill matched her previous record in the 100 hurdles with her prelim time of 14.59 seconds, then shaved 0.09 more off the mark in the finals, placing second to Tufts senior Marilyn Allen (14.48) in 14.50 seconds, with third-place Grace Weatherall of Williams a distant third (14.85).
  • Sunil placed second in the long jump with a top mark of 18-4.25, bettering her own year-old team record of 18-1.25 by three inches. Sunil also tied for fourth place in the high jump (5-2.25) and placed sixth in the triple jump (36-4.75).
  • Cook placed fourth in the 5,000 in 17:26.66, 2.71 seconds faster than the previous school record of 17:29.37 set by Kallie Nixon in 2014.
  • Junior Jessica Wilson (Cumberland, Maine) placed fourth in the 1,500 meters in a career-best 4:36.33, jumping from fifth into third place on Bates' all-time performance list.
  • Senior Isabelle Unger (Charlotte Vt.) placed fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:16.99, moving into fifth place on Bates' all-time performance list.
  • First-year Ayden Eickhoff (Corvallis, Mont.) placed fifth in the 800 meters, moving into second place on Bates' all-time performance list with her time of 2:13.39, just one-tenth of a second behind the team record time set by Elizabeth Arens in 2012. Eickhoff finished only 2.27 seconds out of first place.
  • First-year Katie Hughes (Pittsfield, Maine) placed fifth in the shot put (36-7.75) and sixth in the hammer throw (131-9).
  • Junior Elyse Rubchinuk (Newport, N.H.) placed fifth in the javelin throw (120-0).
  • Dickinson placed fifth in the 200-meter dash in 25.99 seconds.
  • Markonic placed sixth in the 400 meters in 59.22 seconds.
  • Senior Elena Schroeder (Clinton, Conn.) placed sixth in the 400 hurdles in 1:06.62.
  • First-year Katie Gonzalez (San Gabriel, Calif.) placed seventh in the hammer throw (130-8).
  • Senior Julia Fisher (Philadelphia, Pa.) placed eighth in the 10,000 meters in 39:39.72.
  • Bates placed fourth in the 4x400 relay with the 10th-best time in team history, 4:00.51, on legs run by Eickhoff, Schroeder, Dickinson and Markonic.
  • Bates placed seventh in the 4x800 relay in 9:45.50 on legs run by Wilson, sophomore Julia Nemy (San Francisco, Calif.), first-year Sarah Rothmann (Andover, Mass.) and Unger.

Bates next competes May 6-7 at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships at Springfield College.

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