Results

DAY TWO
The women's track & field team opened its 2011 outdoor campaign with a strong third-place finish at the Seahawk Invitational hosted by UNC Wilmington, collecting 133 points. Elon University won the event with 165 points while the host captured second place with an aggregate of 159 points.

Numerous performances highlighted the Huskies' efforts on Saturday, including three individual victories, four second-place performances and two third-place showings.

Sophomore Jillena Decarteret displayed momentous upside with her victory in the pole vault, clearing 3.91m (12'10), marking the second-best performance in outdoor school history. With the mark, the East Templeton, Mass. native has now qualified for the ECAC Championship in the first week of competition.

Jess Barton dispatched a field of 52 in the 1,500-meter run, capturing victory with a time of 4:35.43 while Ida Cance came away with the high jump title. Cance cleared 1.57m (5'2) to win the event.

The women's relay squads posted remarkable efforts, both in second-place fashion. The 4 x 100-meter relay quartet (Saleena Abdur-Rashed, Camille Henry, Ashlee Pitts and Sepanta Padrah-Vajdy) qualified for the ECAC Championship with a second-place time of 47.69. The Huskies' 4 x 400-mete relay team of Laura Coyne, Courtney Mortimer, Rachel Moburg and Christiana Gallagher recorded a second-place time if 4:40.69.

After Friday's hammer throw triumph, Althea Charles entered the ring and secured second place in the shot put with a throw of 12.66m (41'6.5) to initiate her final outdoor season.

In the 100-meter hurdles, Abdur-Rashed missed out on victory by three hundredths of a season, earning second place with a time of 14.35. In the 400-meter hurdles, newcomer Chelsea Hudson was a third-place finisher with a clip of 1:04.91.

Sophomore Rachel Taback made her impressions felt in the discus throw by turning in a third-place performance of 40.07m (131'5).

In the 100-meter dash, Pitts claimed sixth in 12.50 while Vajdy-Padrah finished on her heels in seventh (12.52). Rookie Olivia Stevens finished in 17th in 13.49. Abdur-Rashed entered the 200-meter event and outkicked 25 other sprinters with a 12th-place time of 26.04. Christina Izzicupo crossed in 28.69 for 29th.

In the 400-meter run, Moburg and Henry finished eighth and 13th, respectively, with times of 1:01.03 and 1:02.47. Gallagher and Coyne wrapped up the 800-meter run in 2:17.69 and 2:21.21 for fifth and seventh, in that order. Izzicupo picked up 16th in 2:26.28.

DAY ONE
The Northeastern women's track & field team led host UNC Wilmington by one point after the first day of competition at the Seahawk Invitational.

The Huskies accrued 38 points and led the way in the seven-team field.

Senior Althea Charles picked up where she left off from the indoor season and continues to re-write Huskies' history by registering the second-best hammer throw in Northeastern history. The West Orange, N.J. native won the hammer throw with a mark of 56.15m (184'03). Theresa Findlay owns the record as it was set back on June 1, 1996. Charles beat out 14 other competitors with the record-setting pitch on Friday.

Sophomore Julia Westover finished fourth with a throw of 49.68m (163'0) while classmate Rachel Taback notched sixth with a clearance of 441.51m (146'0).

In the javelin throw, Heather Crocker turned in a second-place throw of 40.69m (133'6) for eight points while newcomer Georgia Pingue collected the same amount of points with a second-place finish of 5.20m (17'0.75) in the long jump. Junior Saleena Abdur-Rashed finished in 10th with a mark of 5.05m (16'7) while rookie Olivia Stevens posted an 11th-place leap of 5.03m (16'6) in the long jump.

On the oval, Katie Barrett outkicked 29 other harriers in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 17:48.82 for another eight points.

The Huskies open their home schedule next weekend with the annual Husky Spring Open at Solomon Track in Dedham, Mass.