Women’s track breaks team record in 4×800, finishes ninth at NED3′s
Sarah Fusco '15, Lisa Reedich '13, Kallie Nixon '14 and Bud Arens '13 finished second at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships in the 4x800 relay, breaking a 20-year-old team record. (Photo by Jay Hartshorn)
Mira Carey-Hatch '14 became the fourth-fastest 10,000-meter runner in Bates women's outdoor track history. (File photo by Tom Leonard '78)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Bates women’s track and field team broke the 20-year-old team record in the 4×800 relay and finished second, leading the Bobcats to a second straight ninth-place finish out of 29 point-scoring teams at the New England Division III Outdoor Championships at MIT.
First-year Sarah Fusco (Cheshire, Conn.), sophomore Kallie Nixon (Medfield, Mass.), junior Lisa Reedich (Harvard, Mass.) and junior Bud Arens (Weymouth, Mass.) — the same quartet that won the NESCAC title in the 4×800 last week at Bates — finished the race in 9:11.00. The former record of 9:20.5 was set in 1992 by Sarah Dominick, Andrea Elder, Vita Taormina and Sarah White. Williams won the race in 9:09.51, while MIT was third in 9:14.90.
There were several other outstanding career-best performances by the Bobcats, including eight other All-New England (top eight) finishes:
- Junior Lindsay Cullen (Newburyport, Mass.) finished fourth in the 5,000 meters, at 17:33.64, while first-year Elena Jay (West Hartford, Conn.) came in seventh at 18:04.03. Cullen moved from ninth place into second on Bates’ all-time list in the event, just 0.15 seconds behind the team record of 17:33.49 held by Kathryn Moore ’06 from 2006.
- Fusco finished fourth in the 800 meters at 2:14.19, moving into third place on Bates’ all-time list in the event.
- Senior Tina Tobin (Lowell, Mass.) took fifth place in the 400-meter hurdles, in a career-best time of 1:03.36, moving into second place on Bates’ all-time performance list in the event.
- Arens also placed fifth in the 1,500 meters, at a career-best 4:37.23, improving her standing as Bates’ second-best all-time in the event. Nixon finished 11th in the 1,500 at 4:43.89.
- On Friday, sophomore Mira Carey-Hatch (Laconia, N.H.) had a breakthrough performance in the 10,000 meters, picking off several competitors in the final laps and finishing sixth overall in 38:18.20, earning All-New England honors (top eight at the meet) and vaulting into fifth place on Bates’ all-time performance list in the event. It’s the best time by a Bates runner in the 10K since Abigail Anthony’s team record of 36:21.81 set in 2001.
- Bates finished sixth in the 4×400 relay, in 4:04.51. Senior Lizzy Carleton (Westborough, Mass.) led off, followed by first-year Quincy Snellings (Lexington, Mass.), sophomore Abby Alexander (Harvard, Mass.) and junior Ansley Flanagan (Roxbury, Conn.).
- Senior Juliana Kirkland (Greene, Maine) placed eighth in the hammer throw, at 146-2.
- Bates was ninth in the 4×100 relay, in 50.21 seconds, on legs run by Flanagan, sophomore Angeleque Hartt (Bronx, N.Y.), junior Erin Augulewicz (Eliot, Maine) and Carleton.
- First-year Colby Gail (Topsham, Maine) tied for 10th place in the high jump, at 5-0.25.
- Sophomore Andrea Fisher (Williamstown, Mass.) was 11th in the 3,000 steeplechase, at 11:47.56.
- Junior Kate DeAngelis (Lewiston, Maine) was 11th in the heptathlon, with 3,396 points. Sophomore Holli Kenison (Orono, Maine) was 13th with 3,161.
- Senior Taylor Piers (Falmouth, Maine) placed 12th in both the triple jump (33-4.5) and the long jump (16-5.75).
Bates competes next weekend at Open New Englands, also at MIT.