WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Bates women's track and field first-year Alisandra Lindos won the triple jump and the Bobcats finished fifth overall at the NESCAC Championships, held Saturday and Sunday at the Weston Athletic Complex.

The Bobcats scored 68.5 points as a team, well-ahead of sixth-place Conn. College (53) and rivals Bowdoin (48) and Colby (22). It's the best finish for Bates women's track and field at the conference championship meet since 2019. 

Meet Highlights

• Lindos (Westbrook, Maine) led a 1-2 Bates finish in the triple jump with her personal-record leap of 38-11.5 (11.87m), becoming the first NESCAC champion in any event for the Bates women's team since 2019 and the first women's team rookie to capture a conference title since 2017. Lindos currently ranks 13th in all of NCAA Division III in the triple jump.
• Sophomore Campbell Johnson (Naples, Maine) earned All-NESCAC (top-three) honors in a pair of events. She placed runner-up to Lindos in the triple jump with a personal-record mark of 38-7.75 (11.78m) and was the runner-up in the high jump as well with a personal-record leap of 5-3.75 (1.62m), good for third on the Bates top 10 all-time performance list. Lindos and Johnson rank second and third, respectively, in Bates history in the outdoor triple jump.
• Senior captain Carli Ciavarelli (Ridgefield, Conn.) earned the first All-NESCAC honors of her career, taking second place in the hammer throw with her career-best toss of 169-4 (51.62m) coming on her final attempt of the day. That mark places Ciavarelli 23rd in NCAA Division III in the hammer throw.
• First-year Hannah Pawlowski (Bow, N.H.) placed fourth in the 800 meters, crossing the finish line in the final in 2:10.93. She had previously set a personal record while placing fifth in the prelims in 2:10.73. Pawlowski currently ranks 15th in NCAA Division III in the 800 meters.
• Junior Alannah Ardrey (New York City) and sophomore Juno Rogers (Decatur, Ga.) joined Johnson in scoring points in the high jump, with Ardrey placing fifth with a top clearance of 5-2.25 (1.58m) and Rogers tying for sixth with a top effort of 5-0.25 (1.53m). Ardrey also scored a point for the Bobcats in the triple jump with her leap of 36-2 (11.02m), good for eighth place.
• Sophomore Marie-Ève Maillet (Saint-Antoine, New Brunswick) placed fourth in the shot put with her throw of 38-11 (11.86m).
• Maillet moved into second all-time at Bates in the javelin with her personal-record toss of 126-7 (38.59m), good for sixth place at the meet.
• Senior captain Moriah Scharn (Dunstable, Mass.) took fifth in the 100-meter hurdles in 15.16 seconds, after racing to the finish in the prelims in 15.02 seconds.
• Sophomore Graca Bila (Westbrook, Maine) finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:04.08, after taking fourth in the prelims in 1:04.07.
• Sophomore Mikayla Ferguson (Winchester, Mass.) scored a point for the Bobcats by finishing eighth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a personal-record time of 11:21.33, good for eighth on the Bates all-time performance list.
• Junior Lia Traficonte (Cumberland, Maine), first-year Charlotte Everhart (Vienna, Va.), sophomore Alexia Zamora (North Salem, N.Y.), and Pawlowski teamed up to run the 4x400 relay in 3:53.44, good for fifth place at the meet and third on the Bates top-10 all-time performance list in the event. 
• Senior Kylie Musante (Brentwood, Tenn.), senior captain Lucy Paynter (Hillsborough, Calif.), first-year Lily Day (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), and senior captain Evelyn Marchand (Trumbull, Conn.) scored a pair of points for Bates by teaming up to finish seventh in the 4x800 relay in a season-best time of 9:34.47.
• Junior Jasmine Gray (Newton, Pa.) cleared the bar in the pole vault at 9-4.25 (2.85m), good for eighth on the Bates outdoor top-10 all-time performance list.
• Junior Emily Cain (Burien, Wash.), Bila, sophomore Madison Alves (Stoneham, Mass.), and Everhart ran a time of 48.80 seconds in the 4x100 relay, good for seventh on the Bates all-time performance list.

The Bobcats are back in action on Friday and Saturday at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships, hosted by Springfield College at Blake Track.