Bates' 4x100 relay team of (left to right) Srishti Sunil, Allison Hill, Alexis Dickinson and Claire Markonic took 0.33 seconds off of the team record at Open New Englands on May 14, 2016. (Photo provided)

LEWISTON, Maine -- The Bates women's track and field team continued to rewrite its record book Saturday at all-divisions Open New Englands, en route to 13th place out of 38 point-scoring teams.

First-year Ayden Eickhoff broke the team record in the 800-meter run, junior Allison Hill (Brunswick, Maine) broke her own 100-meter hurdles record for the second day in a row, and the Bobcats reset the team 4x100-meter relay record on Saturday, after two records also fell on Friday.

Bates finished with 22 team points, placing 13th out of 38 teams that scored points for top-eight performances. Bates was fifth among Division III teams. The Bobcats were a point behind 12th-place Westfield State and 0.5 points ahead of Southern Maine. Northeastern won with 140.

A day after she broke her own 100 hurdles record for the fourth meet in a row in the preliminary heats, at 14.39 seconds, Hill lowered the record by another 0.13 in the finals on Saturday, finishing in 14.26 seconds, third overall and first in Division III. 

Eickhoff (Corvallis, Mont.) finished the 800 in 2:12.42, lowering her own personal record by 1.03 seconds and snipping 0.87 seconds off of the former team record set by Elizabeth Arens in 2012. Eickhoff placed fifth to earn All-New England honors for a top-eight performance.

Bates' 4x100 relay team of sophomore Srishti Sunil (Bangalore, India), Hill, senior Alexis Dickinson (Brunswick, Maine) and junior Claire Markonic (Millerton, N.Y.) placed seventh overall and second in Division III in 48.13 seconds, lowering the team record by a whopping 0.33 seconds. The former team standard of 48.46 seconds was set in 2014 by Quincy Snellings, Angeleque Hartt, Hill and Dickinson.

Junior Jessica Wilson (Cumberland, Maine) placed fifth out of 26 women and third in Division III in the 1,500 meters at 4:38.98.

Bates competes at the ECAC Division III Outdoor Championships May 18-19 at Westfield State.

Friday Recap

Sunil and Hill both again broke their own team records in the long jump and 100-meter hurdles, respectively, on the first day of Open New Englands Friday at Southern Connecticut State.

Sunil long jumped 18 feet and 5 inches on her third attempt of the day, 0.75 inches beyond her previous team record of 18-4.25 set two weeks ago at the NESCAC Championships. Sunil scored six team points for placing third in the event out of 22.

Running in Friday's preliminary heats, Hill finished the 110 hurdles in 14.39 seconds, taking 0.06 seconds off of her own standing record set a week ago. It was the fourth week in a row that Hill has broken her own record in the event, a run that began with her going 14.57 seconds at the University of New Hampshire on April 16.

Hill also came within one hundredth of a second of matching the team 200-meter record she tied earlier this season, going 25.50 seconds into a slight headwind to place 13th out of 29. Hill shares the record with Dana Lindauer at 25.49.