WALTHAM, Mass. - Wellesley College track and field finished won three events and finished fourth out of 11 at the Reggie Poyau Memorial Invitational Saturday at Brandeis University.
Merrimack won the team competition with 104 points, followed by Assumption (76), Brandeis (64), and then Wellesley (60), narrowly ahead of New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWAC) foe Smith (58).
Seniors Claire Anderson (Denver, Colo.) and Ellie Murphy-Weise (San Francisco, Calif.) captured the top two spots in the mile. Anderson ran 5:19.21 with Murphy-Weise just behind with a 5:26.48.
First year Sara Maeve Klingensmith (Chapel Hill, N.C.) added another win for Wellesley in the 200 meter dash with a 27.56 to edged out Assumption. Klingensmith also placed sixth in the long jump with a distance of 4.86 meters.
The Blue's winning ways continued in the 3000 meter race with first year Emily Brydges (Suffield, Conn.) earning her first collegiate win with a time of 11:01.91, over three seconds ahead of the second place competitor. Classmate Claire Peng (Chapel Hill, N.C.) placed sixth in the event with a time of 11:21.97.
Wellesley captured third in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 4:29.62. The team consisted of sophomore Aoife Fitzgerald (Paxton, Mass.), first year Charlie Barron (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Klingensmith, and first year Aleah Ghiasuddin (Newburyport, Mass.).
First year Ella Whinney (Madison, Wis.) placed in two events. The first year ran a 3:10.43 to take third in the 1000 meter dash and also finished sixth in the high jump with a height of 1.47 meters. Senior Emily Doyle (Mobile, Ala.) took fourth in the weight throw competition with a distance of 11.31 meters.
Fitzgerald took fifth in the 800 meter race running a 2:38.20 and classmate Erin Dickinson (Omaha, Neb.) set a PR in the triple jump finishing sixth overall with a distance of 9.94 meters. Ghiasuddin finished seventh in the 800 with a time of 2:46.90.
The Blue travel to Medford next weekend to compete in the Branwen Smith-King Invitational at Tufts.
