Results

The Northeastern women's track & field team won its first team event of the season in the confines of its home course by topping 16 other teams at the Boston Indoor Games on Friday evening.

Northeastern accumulated 97 points in the 17-event challenge, topping second-place finisher, Brown, by four points (93). Boston College claimed third (72) while New Hampshire (64.5) and Maine (62) took fourth and fifth, respectively.

The Huskies were paced by four first-place victories and three second-place performances, including record-setting performances by transfer Nia Howard and sophomore Jillena Deecartert in the long jump and pole vault, respectively. Howard won the long jump with Northeastern's fourth-best leap in school history by clearing 5.94m (19'6) while Decarteret vaulted over 3.76m (12'4) for second place. It marked the second-year vaulter's best mark in her career.

Howard also claimed the 55-meter dash title with a final time of 7.18 for her second triumph of the evening. Junior Saleena Abdur-Rashed also won her event well ahead of the nearest competitor by clocking in at 8.08 in the 55-meter hurdles. Abdur-Rashed also posted a second-place performance in the 200-meter dash, crossing the line in 25.52.

Senior thrower Althea Charles continues to own the competition in the weight throw as the West Orange, N.J. native triumphed in her event with a throw of 16.92m (55'6.25).

Joining Howard in the 55-meter dash was freshman Ashlee Pitts. Pitts picked up fifth place to the tune of 7.43 along with a 26.20 mark in the 200-meter dash, which tied for sixth place. Sarah Trotman logged an 11th-place clip of 26.38 in the 200-meter, as well.

In the 400-meter dash, sophomore Nikki Cuhna ran for fifth place with a time of 59.09 while rookie Camille Henry crossed in 1:00.55 in the same event for 11th. In the 500-meter run, newcomer Chelsea Hudson registered an 11th-place jaunt in 1:19.49. Classmate Rachel Moburg represented NU in the 800-meter race, chalking up a 14th-place time if 2:20.33.

In the 1,000-meter run, veteran Seri Gordon turned in a sixth-place run of 2:57.80 while Courtney Mortimer clocked a time if 3:05.59 for 16th place. In the 3,000-meter challenge, rookie Danielle Klein outlasted the course for 16th place with a time of 10:34.42.

The group of Cuhna, Henry, Hudson and Gordon notched Northeastern's other second-place showing in the 4 x 400-meter relay with a time of 3:59.42. The quartet of Christiana Gallagher, Mortimer, Moburg and Barton joined forces to post a fourth-place march of 12:06.33 in the women's medley relay, beating out seven other squads.

Turning to the field, rookie Allyson Crooke was in the same field in which Howard claimed victory, but the freshman placed fifth with a measure of 5.24m (17'2.25).

The tandem of newcomers in Olivia Stevens and Georgia Pingue placed fourth and fifth, respectively, with combinations of 11.56m (37'11.25) and 11.47m (37'7.75), in that order, to pick up some points for the Huskies in the field.

Sophomore Rachel Taback closed out NU's efforts in the field, taking home eighth and 11th-place marks of 11.25m (36'11) and 13.43m (44'00.75).

The Northeastern women's track & field team returns to competition on Friday, Feb. 4, at the Battle of Beantown.