Track & Field Earns Four Firsts at Ball State Invitational

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Track & Field Earns Four Firsts at Ball State Invitational

4/13/2013 2:07:00 AM | Women's Track and Field

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MUNCIE, Ind. - The IPFW Mastodon Track & Field Team took second of three teams at the Ball State Invitational, winning four events in the competition.

IPFW earned 117 points in the afternoon event, as Ball State took first place with a 227, and IUPUI third with 46.

The Mastodons got first-place finishes in the shot put, discus throw, hammer throw, and javelin, all from four differenct people.

Kaeleigh Porter set a new collegiate career-best in the hammer throw with a toss of 153-feet, 3-inches (46.73 meters), taking first in the event, with Kayla Zink taking fifth with a toss of 140-11, Rachel Dincoff sixth in 139-7, Lizzy Frazze seventh in 111-6, Laura Moynahan eighth in 109-0, and Alyssa Kopp in 93-1.

In the discus, Zink took the top honors with a toss of 142-6, while Dincoff placed fourth in 130-6, and Emily Radke seventh in 116-1.

Theresa McHugh, the school record holder in the javelin, took first in that event on Friday with a toss of 135-0, the fourth-best toss in program history, with Kopp taking fourth in 93-3, Moynahan fifth in 82-11, and Frazze sixth in 80-10.

The fourth first-place finish came in the shot put, where school record holder Dincoff took first in the event, four feet further than the second-place finisher, teammate Zink, who had a toss of 42-3.5. Radke took fourth in the field with a toss of 40-2.25, with Porter (sixth / 37-3.75), Kopp (seventh / 37-5), Frazze (eighth / 36-4), and Moynahan (ninth / 34-4.25) rounded out the strong throwing contingent in the event.

The 4x400-meter relay team of Kaylin Taylor, Emily Craig, Kayla Boyes, and Julie Jeszenszky took second in the field with a time of 4:27.37, as Taylor also took third place in both the 100- (12.85) and 200-meter dashes (26.42).

Boyes, who ran a leg on the relay, also competed in the 1,500- and 800-meter runs, pacing IPFW in each. Boyes took second in the 1,500-meter run in a time of 5:02.95, while teammate Jeszenszky placed fourth in a time of 5:08.92, while Andrea Bell (5:16.01) and Alexa Brown (5:38.63) took seventh, and eighth, respectively.

Boyes' time of 2:25.97 in the 800-meter run paced the team, with Jeszenszky taking seventh in 2:34.06 and Brown eighth in 2:35.99. Three others: Nicole Dailey (2:41.13), Alexis Minier (2:48.31), and Nichole Wormcastle (2:50.63) placed, 10th, 11th, and 12th, each.

Bell led a quintet of runners in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:41.51 - taking third overall - with Rachel Zachar finishing just behind in a time of 18:42.36. Jordan Tomecek and Amaya Ayers finished back-to-back with times of 19:40.91 and 19:47.62, while Kaitlyn Simmons ran to a time of 20:39.19.

Simmons also placed sixth in the 3,000-meter steeple chase with a time of 12:51.32, while Emily Craig placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:03.19.

Next weekend the squad splits, with some of the members of the team competing in the Jesse Owen Track Classic, the the remainder at Purdue's Dave Rankin Invitational.

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