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The Northeastern women's track & field program chalked up six first-place victories in the season opening 3rd annual Jay Carisella Track & Field Invitational on Saturday, Dec. 3, including a handful from first-year Huskies.

Northeastern also racked up four second-place finishes and a third-place performance to bolster the Huskies' strong opening weekend.

Freshman sprinter Victoria Alexander ran away with the 55-meter dash title with a speedy mark of 7.30 and followed that up with the 200-meter dash crown in 25.49. Alexander bettered 88 other sprinters in the 200-meter dash field.

Classmate Jessica Dunnigan upheld the fine freshmen debuts with a third-place dash of 25.99 in the 200-meter sprint. Veteran Sarah Trotman closed out the same event in fifth place with a time of 26.53.

Senior Saleena Abdur-Rashed picked up where she left off last year with a victory in the 55-meter hurdles in 8.39 while senior transfer Nia Howard leaped to victory in the long jump by almost a foot with a mark of 5.46m (17'11). Sophomore Georgia Pingue  put together a winning combination of 11.71m (38'5) in the triple jump followed by classmate Olivia Stevens' runner-up performance of 11.12m (36'5.75). Senior Kamilah Rowe finished in 12th place (8.79m – 28'10.25).

Junior pole vaulter Jillena Decarteret finished atop the collegiate heap with a second-place spring of 3.50m (11'5.75), taking second place overall while classmate Julia Westover also captured second place in the shot put with a heave of 18.02m (59'1.5).

In the relay game, the Northeastern 'A' relay quad of rookie Monet Braithwaite, sophomores Chelsea Hudson and Ashlee Pitts and junior Christina Izzicupo grabbed second place in the 4 x 400-meter relay with a combined time of 4:07.41. Sophomores Camille Henry and Meghan Underhill joined Trotman and Gallagher for fourth place (4:09.99) in the same event.

Howard and Dunnigan finished fourth and eighth, respectively in the 55-meter dash with marks of 7.46 and 7.58. Braithwaite and Pitts were awarded eighth and 10th, in that order in the 400-meter dash while Hudson (1:21.45) and Henry (1:22.32) finished sixth and seventh in the 500-meter run.

Freshman Nicole Novellino turned in a seventh-place march of 3:10.11 in the 1,000-meter run in her first run as a Husky sophomore Katie Barrett gained a seventh-place showing in the 3,000-meter run of 10:18.20.

Junior Rachel Taback closed out the weight throw in seventh place (14.10m – 46'3.25). Westover and Taback respectively finished eighth and ninth in the shot put with measures of 11.00m (36'1.25) and 10.85m (35'7.25).

Northeastern continues its indoor track & field campaign across the river at Harvard on Saturday, Dec. 10.