Women's Outdoor Track and Field | 5/7/2021 7:56:00 PM

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Junior Ashley Blannard (Larksville, Pa./Wyoming Valley West) earned the first all-conference honors of the weekend for the Bloomsburg University women's track and field team at the 2021 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Friday afternoon. Blannard took third overall in the long jump after a weather delay between the opening rounds and the finals.
 

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Blannard, senior Kathleen Stevenson (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), and sophomore Dahlia Hosey (Wellsboro, Pa./Wellsboro Area) earned a spot in the long jump finals but had to wait out sideways rain and lightning to compete in the finals. Blannard finished third overall and earned all-conference honors with a jump of 5.67 meters. Stevenson earned a spot on the podium as well as she took sixth with a jump of 5.35 meters. Hosey just missed on a podium spot as she took ninth with a distance of 5.24 meters while the eighth-place finisher hit 5.25 meters.
 
Junior Lauren O'Malley (Montoursville, Pa./Montoursville Area) kicked off the day for the Huskies with a 12^th-place finish in the heptathlon with a personal-best 3338 points. O'Malley opened the day with a sixth-place finish in the long jump with a distance of 4.66 meters before taking 10^th in the javelin with a throw of 24.73 meters. She finished the multis event with a ninth-place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:42.38.
 
The foursome of Melissa Sicinski (Fountainville, Pa./Pennridge), Sarah Castronova (Lancaster, Pa./Conestoga Valley), Kathleen Stevenson (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), Sydney Beaverson (York, Pa./Red Lion) qualified for the finals in the 4x100-meter relay as they finished seventh overall with a time of 49.52.
 
Castronova impressed in the prelims of the 400-meter dash as she won her heat and finishe first overall with a personal-best time of 57.15 to solidify her spot in the finals on Saturday. Castronova will also run in the finals of the 200-meter dash tomorrow as the prelims were cancelled due to weather on Friday. Saturday's race will be a timed-finals.
 
Junior Kathryn Blair (Elma, N.Y./Iroquois) posted a huge personal-record in the prelims of the 800-meter run as she took second in her heat and second overall with a time of 2:15.00 and qualified for Saturday's finals.
 
The Huskies are currently 11^th with nine team points but are poised to move up in the standings on Saturday.
 
Freshman Molly Raville (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) will open the day for the Huskies tomorrow in the javelin at 11:00 am while the 4x100-meter relay team will open the final day on the track of the PSAC Outdoor Championships. The relay is scheduled to begin at 12:30 pm.