Results
UTICA, N.Y. – Led by double-winner
Laurel Moyer (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain), the Lock Haven University women's indoor track & field team put together an around dominating effort and the Bald Eagles headlined the Utica College Blue & Orange Invitational field today with individual wins, 2019-20 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) championship qualifying marks, season-bests and more.
Moyer won the mile and 3,000-meter run and capped her two wins with a fourth-place finish at 800 meters.
Riyana Owens (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown) posted a win at 60 meters,
Karina Long (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin) won the long jump and the Bald Eagles 4x200-meter relay turned in a historic outing.
LHU's historic relay effort in the 4x2 opened the day. Owens and Long teamed up with
Ana Concepcion (Allentown, Pa./Louis E. Dieruff) and
Kayla Brathwaite (Arouca, Trinidad & Tobago/Bishop Anstey East), and the four ran 1:46.37 for the win, besting second place by four seconds and topping the seven-team field with the third-fastest time in Lock Haven history. It was the fastest time run by the Bald Eagles in nearly two decades.
Moyer won the mile with a time of 5:21.53, a PSAC mark. She was first of 24 in the race and won by nearly eight full seconds. She was fourth in the 800 with a season-best and PSAC time of 2:20.98, before winning the 3K with a PSAC time of 10:25.59, capping a remarkable triple. Moyer's time in the 3K is one of the fastest in the PSAC this season and she won today by 23 seconds.
Long won the long jump with a PSAC and season-best leap of 18-04.25. She was first of 41, before adding a second-place jump in the triple jump. In the triple jump event, she hit a mark of 36-08.50, a season-best and PSAC effort.
Owens won the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.84. The time established a new facility record and the PSAC time was just shy of her season-best. She ran 7.88 in the prelims. Owens, a key member of the Bald Eagles historic day-opening relay effort, was busy and she added a strong showing in the 200. At 200 meters, Owens was fourth with a PSAC time of 26.42.
Lock Haven scored big in the 5,000-meter run and the 500-meter run.
Elaina Klinger (Danville, Pa./Danville) ran 19:27.23 in the 5K, which was good enough for third out of 26 and a season-best.
Karlee Noel (Altoona, Pa./Altoona) was eighth in the 5K with a time of 19:49.43.
At 500 meters,
Tia Judy (East Prospect, Pa./Homeschooled) was sixth (1:27.15) and
Josie McKendree (Johnstown, Pa./Forest Hills) was seventh (1:27.70).
Arianna Moyer (Enola, Pa./Bucknell) was fifth overall in the weight throw with a big season-best mark of 46-03.25.
Billie Jo Bollinger (Manheim, Pa./Manheim) added a sixth-place showing in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.70, a PSAC time. In the prelims, she ran 9.57.
Lock Haven tallied 91.5 total points today, the second most of any team in the 23 team women's field.
Up Next:
LHU will be back in action next weekend – Friday & Saturday, February 14-15 – competing at the Fasttrack National Invitational (Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex in Staten Island, New York) and Boston University's David Hemery Valentine Invite.
