Results

The women's track & field team finished in fourth place at the Battle of Beantown on Friday evening at Gordon Indoor Track on the campus of Harvard.

The Huskies captured a pair of victories thanks to the efforts of senior Saleena Abdur-Rashed (60-meter hurdles) and junior Julia Westover (weight throw) while sophomore Georgia Pingue posted the lone runner-up finish in the triple jump.

Abdur-Rashed dashed for a season best in the 60-meter hurdles, outsprinting Boston University's Nikko Brady by two hundredths of a second. Westover bested a field of nine in the weight throw, casting a winning toss of 17.43m (57'2.25).  Pingue's second-place performance was just under a foot and a half from the winner, Olivia Weeks (Harvard). Pingue put together a combination of 12.14m (39'10), tying a season-best mark this year.

Sophomore Nia Howard and Ashlee Pitts churned out fifth and seventh place-finishes, in that order, with times of 7.91 and 7.97 in the 60-meter dash while first-year sprinter Monet Brathwaite and senior Sarah Trotman turned in fourth and fifth-place finishes of 25.43 and 25.67 in the 200-meter dash.

Sophomore Camille Henry crossed the 400-meter dash line in1:00.05 for seventh place followed by Brathwaite's eight-place run of 1:00.32 in the same event. Sophomores Chelsea Hudson and Megan Underhill picked up a fifth place and eight-place listing of 1:18.50 and 1:27.67, respectively.

Senior Christiana Gallagher was Northeastern's sole performer in the 800-meter run, posting a fourth-place jaunt of 2:16.18. Classmate Courtney Mortimer ran solo in the 1,000-meter run, as well, notching eighth place in 3:01.99.

In the distance game, sophomore Danielle Klein's time of 5:13.87 garnered seventh place in the mile followed by sophomore Katie Barrett's clip of 10:30.37 for sixth place in the 3,000-meter run.

In the field, senior Ida Cance sprung over 1.59m (5'2.5) for fifth in the high jump while second-year Husky Ally Crooke closed out in seventh with a mark of 1.54m (5'0.5). Junior Jillena Decarteret was the fourth-place finisher in the pole vault (3.50m – 11'5.75) as junior Lauren Bennett and freshman Dana Schweiger gained respective fifth and seventh-place performances of 3.35m (10'117.5).

Howard and sophomore Olivia Stevens teamed up in the long jump as Howard came away with fourth-place laurels (5.60m – 18'4.5) and Stevens was awarded eight for her mark of 4.92m (16'1.75).

Junior Rachel Taback had a podium performance in the weight throw, finishing two back of Westover for third place with a heave of 15.52m (50'11). In the shot put, Taback and Westover earned respective finishes of sixth and seventh place (11.32m – 37'1.75, 11.11m – 36'5.5).

Northeastern will make its first trip to Boston University's campus next Friday for the Valentine Invitational. The Huskies will compete on Feb. 10 at BU's Track & Tennis center.