CINCINNATI, Ohio - The Wilmington College women's track & field team won four events to take third place at the six-team Mount St. Joseph University Invitational on Saturday.
In field events, WC handled the hammer throw as five Quakers placed in the top six of the event. Abby Lodewyck's heave of 145' 1" won the event while teammate Lucy Trout took runner-up honors with a mark of 140' 7". Lexi Grice (137' 9"), Molly Hafer (124' 7") and Camya Calloway (120' 1") placed fourth, fifth and sixth in the event, respectively.
Grice and Calloway double-dipped in scoring the team points as both also competed in the shot put. Grice finished fourth with a throw of 34' 2.75" while Calloway's heave of 32' 7.5" placed her fifth. Amy Myers, whose mark of 112' 2" earned her a fourth-place finish in the discus, rounded out the point-scoring throws. In jumps, Madison Dietz finished runner-up with a leap of 17' 2.75".
Dietz would win an event on the track as she was joined by teammate Kylee Schafer to go one-two in the 100-meter dash with times of 12.76 seconds and 13.00 seconds respectively. In the 200-meter dash, however, it was Schafer who won the event by crossing the finish line in 26.81 seconds Dietz finished third in the event with a time of 27.79 seconds. Schafer also earned the Quakers points in the 400-meter dash with a runner-up time of 1:02.06.
Wilmington's final victory came in the 4-x-100-meter relay as Dietz, Schafer, Rachel Spanfellner and Jaineen Smith completed the race in 51.59 seconds.
The Quakers will have a weekend off before the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) Outdoor Championships hosted at the University of Mount Union on May 4-5.
