Feb. 24, 2008
Complete Results
LEWISBURG, Pa. - Behind the stellar efforts of middle distance runner Vicki Moore (Sr./Burke, Va.), the Navy women's track & field team finished in third place at the Patriot League Indoor Championship at Bucknell's Gerhard Field House on Sunday.
Defending champion and host Bucknell led all teams with 173 points, followed by Lafayette's 146 points and Navy's 87 points. Army placed fourth with 75 points, while Lehigh tallied 49 points, Holy Cross totaled 46 points, Colgate earned 28 points and American came away with 16 points.
"All in all, I would say that we had a pretty good third day," stated Navy head coach Carla Criste. "Vicki Moore and Amy Watson were very impressive in coming back after yesterday's performances. I was quite pleased with how all our distance runners stepped up. Bucknell just had more depth in the sprints and jumps than us."
Moore, who ran the anchor leg of the 4x800-meter relay in 2:11.7 on Saturday, bounced back on Sunday to win the 1,000-meter run with a 2:58.02 clocking. Moore also placed second in the mile run with a career-best time of 5:05.74, followed by teammate Arwyn Becker's (Sr./Vail, Colo.) 5:08.74 showing for fifth place.
Navy's quartet of Becker, Moore, Abby Gesecki (So./Nanticoke, Pa.) and Maureen Dooley (Jr./Durham, Conn.) combined for a third-place time of 12:29.74 in the distance medley relay. In the mile portion of the race, Becker, who ran the mile just four hours before, produced a stellar 5:07 performance. Gesecki also competed earlier in the day, as she placed fifth in the 500-meter run with a time of 1:18.05.
Amy Watson (So./Hampstead, Md.), who finished second in the 5,000-meter run with an ECAC qualifying time yesterday, came back to record a career-best 10:07.97 time in the 3,000-meter run to finish third.
The Midshipmen also came away with nine points in the shot put. Joy Nameth (Fr./Walden, Colo.) posted the seventh-best distance in school history with a toss of 44'4-1/4" (13.52 meters) to land in second place. Janet Von Eiff (Fr./San Diego, Calif.) claimed a point with a sixth-place mark of 42'0" (12.80 meters).
Navy recorded points in two other events on Sunday. Sabrina Gambill (Sr./Bridgewater, Mass.) finished the 60-meter hurdles in 9.11 seconds to rank sixth among the finalists. The Midshipmen 4x400-meter relay of Lauren Burmeister (Sr./Brownsdale, Minn.), Taren Burkett (Sr./Virginia Beach, Va.), Chelsea Chlebo (Fr./Fredericksburg, Va.) and Jessica Orr (Sr./New Holland, Pa.) combined for a fifth-place time of 4:00.52.
The Midshipmen will return to action on March 8-9, when they head up to Boston for the ECAC Championship.
