Allison Hill won the New England Division III title in the 100-meter hurdles and broke her own team record in the process on May 7, 2016. (File photo by Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Junior Allison Hill won the 100-meter hurdles title and again broke her own team record in the event, leading the Bates women's track and field team to a tie for 11th place Saturday at the New England Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. 

With 34 points, Bates tied Wheaton (Mass.) College for 11th place out of 31 teams that scored points for top-eight event performances.

After recording the top time in the field in Friday's preliminary heats, at 14.64 seconds, Hill (Brunswick, Maine) won Saturday's final in 14.45 seconds, 0.11 seconds ahead of runner-up Annie Wooley of Fitchburg State. Hill chopped 0.05 seconds off of the team record she set last week in placing second at the NESCAC Championships. 

Other Bates athletes scoring points and earning All-New England honors for top-eight performances included:

• Senior Isabelle Unger (Charlotte, Vt.) placed fifth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, in a time of 11:18.28.
• First-year Ayden Eickhoff (Corvallis, Mont.) placed eighth in the 1,500 meters with a career-best time of 4:37.03, jumping from seventh to fourth place on Bates' all-time performance list in the event.
• Sophomore Srishti Sunil (Bangalore, India) picked up a point in the triple jump, finishing eighth with a top distance of 35-9.25.
• Bates scored in all three relay races, first with a sixth-place performance in the 4x100 relay. Sunil, Hill, senior Alexis Dickinson (Brunswick, Maine) and junior Claire Markonic (Millerton, N.Y.) finished the race in 48.67 seconds, 0.17 off of Bates' season best time. The group becomes the third-fastest 4x100 unit in program history with the time.
• A young Bates quartet also placed third in the 4x800 relay, as sophomore Julia Nemy (San Francisco, Calif.), first-year Katie Barker (Burlington, Vt.), first-year Sarah Rothmann (Andover, Mass.) and first-year Wendy Memishian (Medway, Mass.) finished in 9:21.77, the fourth-best in program history.
• Bates finished the meet with a fifth-place performance in the 4x400 relay, with Hill, senior Elena Schroeder (Clinton, Conn.), Dickinson and Markonic finishing in 3:57.73, becoming Bates' fifth-fastest 4x400 unit in team history.

Friday Recap

Sophomore Katherine Cook placed fourth in her 10,000-meter run debut and became Bates' third-fastest runner ever in the event to lead the Bobcats Friday.

Six days after she set Bates' team record in the 5,000-meter run, Cook (South Burlington, Vt.) finished the 10K in 36:52.00, fourth out of 25 women in the event to score five team points.

Bates next competes at the all-divisions Open New England Championships May 13-14 at Southern Connecticut State in New Haven, Conn.