Women's Outdoor Track and Field | 4/6/2018 10:28:00 PM

COMPLETE RESULTS

BALTIMORE, Md. - The Bloomsburg University women's outdoor track and field team collected eight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifiers on Friday as the Huskies finished in fourth place out of 15 schools competing at the Johns Hopkins Invitational.

The Huskies finished with a total of 76 points, trailing only Johns Hopkins (197), Towson (121), and Loyola (Md.) (97) in the overall team standings.

Senior Rachael Sullivan (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) had a sensational day in the field events as she posted the only Huskies' victory with a mark of 44.12 meters in the hammer throw. It shattered her throw of 41.43 meters she finished last week at West Chester in the outdoor season opener. She also took third in the discus with a distance of 38.30 meters which also blasted her throw of 36.21 meters she posted last week. Sullivan was Bloomsburg's only two-time PSAC qualifier on the afternoon.

Three others - senior Amanda Simone (Philadelphia, Pa./Archbishop Ryan), sophomore Amanda Aulenbach (Fleetwood, Pa./Oley Valley), and freshman Kathleen Stevenson (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) - also qualified for the conference meet in the field events. Simone finished second overall in the high jump with a mark of 1.60 meters, trailing only Coppin State's Naja McAdam who cleared a height of 1.65 meters. Stevenson placed fourth in the long jump after posting a mark of 5.45 meters. She finished behind a trio of Division I athletes - two from Coppin State and one from Johns Hopkins. Aulenbach scored the first-place total of 10 points in the javelin with a throw of 38.57 but finished second overall to Christine Bohan who was competing as an unattached and did not factor in the team scoring.

On the track, senior Hannah Boudreau (Hampstead, Md./North Carroll), senior Morgan Ilgenfritz (Carlisle, Pa./Boiling Springs), and sophomore Madison Mimnaugh (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Pittston Area) qualified for the conference championships. Boudreau finished sixth overall in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:47.45 while Ilgenfritz placed eighth in the 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 12:18.96. Mimnaugh crossed the finish line in 2:21.93 to finish tenth overall in the 800-meter run.

Several others scored the Huskies on Friday to aid in the overall team standings. On the track, Carli Dedics (Drums, Pa./Hazleton Area) finished second and Jessica Brenfleck (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) placed seventh in the 100-meter dash. Dedics crossed the line in 12.71 while Brenfleck posted a time of 13.20. Both relay teams also scored for Bloomsburg as the 4x100-meter relay team took second with a time of 49.38 and the 4x400-meter relay team placed seventh with a time of 4:10.97.

In the field events, Alaina Pearson (Coal Township, Pa./Shamokin Area) finished sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 3.10 meters. Hannah Masenheimer (New Tripoli, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh) also scored for the Huskies as she took fourth in the hammer throw with a toss of 39.37 meters.

Bloomsburg will be right back in action on Saturday, April 7, when it heads to Millersville University to compete in the Millersville Metrics. Action is scheduled to get underway at 9:30 a.m.