Overall Results
BOSTON – The Northeastern women's track and field team competed in its first meet of the calendar year at the sixth Battle of Beantown hosted by Harvard at the Gordon Indoor Track on Saturday afternoon.
NU claimed a third-place team finish, falling behind Army, which took first with 159 points, and host Harvard (144.5). Brown finished fourth as a team (60), while Boston College took fifth (38).
The Huskies totaled nine top-three individual finishes, including first-place finishes by
Betsy Garnick in the long jump (5.55 meters) and
Georgia Pingue in the triple jump (11.80 meters). Pingue also took third place in the long jump by clearing 5.31 meters.
Sprinter
Victoria Alexander opened the meet for NU by grabbing a pair of third-place finishes in the 60-meter dash (7.71 seconds) and 200-meter dash (25.3 seconds).
Camille Gooden finished a hair behind Alexander in the 200-meter dash when she clocked in at 25.4 seconds, good for fourth place. Gooden also helped lead the NU 4x400 relay team to a third-place finish (4:01.67) with the help of
Jocelyn Hubbard,
Chelsea Hudson and
Eryn Wheeler.
Jacilyn Briggs took second in the pole vault (3.50 meters), while teammate
Kelly Benfey (3.35 meters) snagged fourth in the event.
Olivia Stevens cleared 11.11 meters in the triple jump, good for third place.
Lucy Young clocked in at 5:05.41 to take third place in the 1-mile run, and
Nicole Genard finished the 60-meter hurdles in 8.86 seconds to claim fourth place.
Northeastern next competes at the Joe Donahue games on Friday, Jan. 24.
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