Women earn 17th place while men take 51st place at ECACs
Both teams had strong performances in the 1,500-meter run at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships last Friday.
by Ian Cutler
Sports Editor
Sports | 5/19/09
Posted online at 11:05 PM EST on 5/18/09
Both the women's and men's outdoor track teams competed at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Championships in Springfield, Mass. last Friday. The men's team finished in a four-way tie for 51st place of 56 teams with two points, focusing more on improving individual performances than team achievement due to its small size and lack of depth. The women's team, however, had a few more bright spots, taking 17th place out of 56 teams with 13 points while also trying to build upon its members' personal scores. Moravian College won both the men's and women's meets, with 64.50 and 67 points, respectively.
On the women's side, the team's best race of the meet came in 1,500-meter run, where Beth Pisarik '10 turned in a second-place performance at 4 minutes, 36.22 seconds, almost six full seconds behind the first-place winner, junior Jacqui Wentz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Still, Pisarik was able to score eight of the Judges' 13 points with her impressive finish.
Joining Pisarik with top finishes in the 1,500-meter run were Grayce Selig '11, Marie Lemay '11 and Erin Bisceglia '12, all of whom finished in the top 14 of the event. Selig was sixth with a time of 4:41.96, recording three points for the Judges, while Lemay was ninth at 4:43.31, one slot shy of bringing in points for her team. Bisceglia took 13th place in the race with a time of 4:54.00.
"They're so strong. They're a great core group that worked together and really hard throughout the season to get to where they were," runner Katy Agule '09 said.
Agule was responsible for the Judges' two remaining points on the day. She earned them by taking seventh place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:27.87. Agule finished almost 45 seconds behind the event's winner, Ursinus College senior Christa Johnson, who turned in a 10:45.92 race.
Agule improved her time in the event by a full 13 seconds from her last run at the Open New England Championships in Amherst, Mass. May 8, where she finished 19th with a time of 11:41.14. However, her time last weekend was still not as impressive as the finishes she had earlier in the season at the New England Division III Championships May 1 or the University Athletic Association Championships April 26.
On the women's side, the team's best race of the meet came in 1,500-meter run, where Beth Pisarik '10 turned in a second-place performance at 4 minutes, 36.22 seconds, almost six full seconds behind the first-place winner, junior Jacqui Wentz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Still, Pisarik was able to score eight of the Judges' 13 points with her impressive finish.
Joining Pisarik with top finishes in the 1,500-meter run were Grayce Selig '11, Marie Lemay '11 and Erin Bisceglia '12, all of whom finished in the top 14 of the event. Selig was sixth with a time of 4:41.96, recording three points for the Judges, while Lemay was ninth at 4:43.31, one slot shy of bringing in points for her team. Bisceglia took 13th place in the race with a time of 4:54.00.
"They're so strong. They're a great core group that worked together and really hard throughout the season to get to where they were," runner Katy Agule '09 said.
Agule was responsible for the Judges' two remaining points on the day. She earned them by taking seventh place in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:27.87. Agule finished almost 45 seconds behind the event's winner, Ursinus College senior Christa Johnson, who turned in a 10:45.92 race.
Agule improved her time in the event by a full 13 seconds from her last run at the Open New England Championships in Amherst, Mass. May 8, where she finished 19th with a time of 11:41.14. However, her time last weekend was still not as impressive as the finishes she had earlier in the season at the New England Division III Championships May 1 or the University Athletic Association Championships April 26.
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