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Women’s track & field wins second-straight NAC outdoor championship

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WATERVILLE, Maine — The Husson University women's track & field team captured its second-straight North Atlantic Conference Outdoor Championship on Saturday at Colby College. 
 
The Eagles finished the two-day event with a team score of 234 points, beating SUNY Delhi who finished second by almost 100 points for the title. 
 
Husson showed its depth on Sunday beginning early as the Eagles finished third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth in the 100-meter hurdles as freshman Angelina Cotoni finished third with a time of 17.08, while senior Willow Whitten posted a time of 17.26 to finish fourth. 
 
Additionally, freshman Alexis Freeman recorded a time of 17.42 to finish sixth, while senior Norah Garvey finished seventh with a mark of 17.75 followed by freshman Niamiah Perry with a time of 18.82 for an eighth-place podium. 
 
In the 100-meter dash, freshman Johanna Stiles recorded a time of 13.76 to finish seventh, while freshman Grace Bedore claimed the 3,000-meter steeplechase title with a mark of 12:46.37. Senior Isabelle Jackson finished fourth in the event with a time of 13:52.61, while junior Emma Abbott clocked a 14:22.65 to finish fifth. 
 
The Eagles 4x100 relay team of Stiles, Perry, Cotoni and freshman Addi Laslie finished second with a 52.33 and sophomore Ava Dowling gave Husson its third conference event winner with a 5:00.02 in the 1,500-meter run. 
 
Bedore and junior Miranda Dunton also placed for the Eagles in the 1,500 recording times of 5:28.06 and 5:40.25 to finish seventh and eighth, respectively. 
 
Laslie ran to a fourth-place finish in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.16, while Bedore clocked a 1:11.56 to finish sixth. 
 
Senior Payton Goodwin recorded a third-place performance in the 200-meter dash with a time of 28.55 while Laslie posted a 29.59 to finish seventh. 
 
In the 5,000-meter run Dowling finished fourth with a time of 21:44.09 while Dunton and Jackson finished seventh and eighth with times of 22:18.69 and 22:28.88, respectively. 
 
Husson concluded running events on Sunday by winning the 4x400 relay as Whitten, Garvey, Goodwin and Laslie clocked a 4:28.61, winning the event by almost 22 seconds. 
 
In the shot put, sophomore Aaralyn Scroggins finishes sixth with a throw of 9.23 meters, while freshman Megan Fletcher recorded a throw of 9.04 meters to finish seventh. Fletcher also posted a seventh-place finish in the discus with a throw of 30.86 meters. 
 
Goodwin added to her impressive afternoon in the long jump, clearing 4.85 meters to win the events while junior Quinn Young finished fourth with a mark of 4.59 meters and freshman Nina Gregory recorded a jump of 4.31 meters to finish seventh. 
 
Young also finished third in the triple jump with a jump of 9.70 meters while Gregory added a fifth-place jump of 9.50 meters. 
 
In the Eagles finish jumping event of the two-day event, Gregory finished third in the high jump, clearing 1.42 meters, while Freeman and Goodwin finished fifth and sixth, respectively with heights of 1.37 meters.
 
Fletcher and Scroggins concluded the Eagles two-day scoring in the javelin throw finishing fourth and seventh, respectively with marks of 24.65 and 22.52 meters. 
 
 
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