12/1/2007

Blue Jays open 2008 indoor season at Dickenson Holiday meet

Elizabethtown College Women's Track and Field
Saturday, December 1, 2006

Elizabethtown Kicks Off Indoor Season at Dickinson Holiday Meet

CARLISLE, Pa. --- A group of Elizabethtown College athletes participated at the Dickinson College Holiday Meet on Saturday afternoon to open the women's indoor track and field season.

Senior Samantha Adams (Mickleton, NJ/Padua Academy, DE) was the Blue Jays' top finisher as she was second in the pole vault at 10 feet, matching her own school record.

Senior Jenna Riley (Reading, PA/Reading Central Catholic) was fourth in the triple jump at 34 feet, 4 1/2 inches and eighth in the long jump (15 feet, 2 3/4 inches) while first-year student Allie Gold (Columbia, PA/Hempfield) claimed fifth in the 55-meter hurdles at 9.45 seconds.

First-year student Lauren Riley (Sanatoga, PA/Pottsgrove) was sixth in the pole vault at 9 feet, first-year student Janelle Lawson (Hanover Twp., PA/Hanover Area) placed seventh in the triple jump (29 feet, 7 inches) and eighth in the high jump (4 feet, 6 inches) and first-year student Sarah DeGeorge (Butler, PA/Butler) was eighth in the shot put (24 feet, 11 inches).

Despite entering just six athletes in the meet, the Blue Jays finished with 25 points to take ninth in a field of 11 schools. Gettysburg College won the team title with 104.5 points followed by Messiah College (93 points) and McDaniel College (89 points).