Gajewski, Murdock Pace ‘Cats in Day 2 of Conference Championships

Saturday, February 23

Boston, Mass.

10 AM

University of New Hampshire

America East Championship

Dani Gajewski (Photo by Matt Troisi)

Gajewski, Murdock Pace ‘Cats in Day 2 of Conference Championships

2/23/2019 11:32:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

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The Wildcats finished seventh in team standings.

BOSTON – The University of New Hampshire women's track & field team wrapped up the America East Indoor Championship weekend with new career highs and several top-eight finishes, as the Wildcats finished seventh in the team standings with 53 points.

Fifth-year Danielle Gajewski (Danville, N.H.), fresh off a distance medley relay win on Friday, followed that up with an all-conference finish in the 800 meter run, taking second place with a finish of 2 minutes, 9.34 seconds. DMR relay parter, senior Shannon Murdock (Exeter, N.H.) followed up her championship performance from Friday with a fourth place finish in the mile, with a time of 5:04.76.

Junior Meg Champagne (Plattsburgh, N.Y.) ran her second ever sub-10 minute 3000m time, setting a new career best at 9:53.30, good for a fourth place finish.

The meet was won by UAlbany, who swept the track and field championships with 213 points on the women's side and 178.5 on the men's side.

TEAM SCORES:
                    Women - Team Rankings - 20 Events Scored
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    1) Albany                    213
    2) UMass Lowell              135.50
    3) Binghamton                 108
    4) Stony Brook                 102
    5) Vermont                    63
    6) U M B C                      58
    7) New Hampshire          53
    8) Maine                        32.50
    9) Hartford                        14

UP NEXT:
The Wildcats head to ECAC/IC4A's on March 2^nd, but prior to that some 'Cats will take on the BU Last Chance Invitational Sunday, February 24, in hopes to get their last-minute qualifying marks in for the ECACs and NCAA Championships.

MEET RESULTS:
Other scorers for the Wildcats in the meet:

The relay team of Madeleine Brandon (Killingworth, Conn.), Nicole Yeomans (Foxborough, Mass.), Emileigh Glode (Boxborough, Mass.), and Danielle Gajewski took fourth in the 4x800 relay, with a time of 9:12.31.
Jessica Hackett (Dover, N.H.) took fifth in the 500m dash in 1:16.31.
Michaella Conery (Concord, N.H.) took sixth in the mile, with a time of 5:05.44.
Sarah Williams (Dover, N.H.) followed up her scoring mark in the weight throw on Friday with a seventh place finish in the shot put, with a distance of 42 feet.
Madeleine Brandon also scored in the 1000m run, finishing seventh with a new career high of 2:57.87. She was followed by Nicole Yeomans in eighth with a time of 2:58.24.
In the 4x400 relay, the team of Zakiya Scott (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jessica Hackett, Lauren Dean, (Gilmanton Iron Works, N.H.), and Chloe Holowachuk (Smithfield, R.I.) scored with an eighth place finish; the team finished in 3:55.48.