ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Individual titles from
Maria Grill and
Amanda Demko, who also made up a record-breaking relay, highlighted a sensational second and final day of competition for the TCNJ women's track and field team at the All-Atlantic Region Indoor Championships on Saturday.
The three regional golds gave TCNJ a total of 47 cumulative points for the meet, enough to edge NJAC rival Rowan by two points for fourth. Geneseo ran away with the team title with 108 points, with Brockport (62) in second and Ithaca (60) in third.
Demko, the NJAC 400-meter champion, made it a double with a winning time of 58.40 seconds, enough to edge Rochester's Kristin Hardy by almost half a second. Demko's mark of 57.68 seconds from the NJAC meet, adjusted for track size, ranks 31
st in Division III.
Grill, meanwhile, won the 200-meter dash in thrilling fashion, crossing the line just .03 seconds ahead of Moravian's Crystal Robinson in a time of 25.92 seconds.
Ashlyn MacLure was one spot out of scoring range, taking ninth overall in 26.45.
Demko and Grill teamed with
Valandra Riggins and MacLure to set a new meet record in the 4x200-meter relay, finishing in 1:44.00 to edge Rowan by 1.66 seconds. The result was a perfect end to the weekend for the Lions, who overtook the rival Profs for fourth in the team standings.
Eliza Bruncaj edged her previous PR by one hundredth of a second in the finals of the 60-meter hurdles, clocking a 9.12 to take fourth place.
Riggins, who shattered her previous personal standard with a 7.89 in Friday night's 60-meter dash prelims, matched that mark exactly in Saturday's final for a fifth-place showing.
Kayley Harnett and
Abigail Pfaff, who shared second-place honors in the high jump at the NJAC indoor championship, posted matching marks again on Saturday. They cleared 1.55 meters, just shy of their 1.56-meter effort at NJACs, and placed seventh and eighth, respectively. Harnett took seventh by virtue of a successful clearance on her first attempt at 1.55 meters, while Pfaff did so on her second attempt.
Karla Gomez-Matos, the NJAC champion in the long jump, placed eighth with a mark of 5.23 meters.
Jessica Reilly finished 20
th in the weight throw (13.25 meters).