Women's track, field win SUNYAC
Chris Winkler
Issue date: 5/6/09 Section: Sports
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"It was great knowing we didn't just win by a couple of points," O'Keeffe said. "We won by a huge margin. It was awesome how all the girls pulled together."
O'Keeffe defended her SUNYAC championship in the triple jump by clearing 11.54 meters. Her jump was good enough for the Oneonta facility record. She'll need to improve that to have a chance at nationals.
"It wasn't my jump of the season, but I was happy with winning and getting the points," O'Keeffe said. "The next few weeks are really important for me [heading into nationals]."
O'Keeffe also won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.74 seconds. She'll be competing in both events at ECACs Thursday, May 14 through Friday, May 15.
Scorse finished behind Buffalo State's Latoya Edwards in both preliminary events in the 100-and-200-meter dashes, but won each event in the finals. She edged Taniqua Hollingsworth by one-tenth of a second in the 200.
Those were the only two first-place finishes for the women, but plenty of second and third-place finishes carried Brockport to the big win.
Amanda Elias finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 17.41 seconds. Melissa Wassink added four points with a fifth-place finish. Wassink also chipped in six points in the 1,500-meter run, by finishing in third place with a time of 4 minutes, 52.4 seconds.
Nicole Sosnoski finished in second in the long jump by clearing 5.15 meters. She also grabbed five points in the triple jump by finishing in fourth place.
Both relay teams took second place, picking up eight points each. In the 4x100-meter relay, Sosnoski, Scorse, Kaitlin Breed and Britney Falcon finished 0.3 seconds behind Buffalo State for first.
Breed and Scorse were joined by O'Keeffe and Elias in the 4x400-meter relay team that also took second.
For the throwers, Stacey Gibbins finished in second in the shot put, while Bridget Mayne and Maggie Needham finished in seventh and eighth, respectively.
Gibbins also took fourth in the discus throw, while Mayne took fifth and third in the hammer throw. In the hammer, Stephanie Powell took fourth, and Hannah Cushman took fifth.
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