LANCASTER, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College women's track & field team had a winner on the track and in the field on Friday at the Blue & White Invitational at Franklin & Marshall College.
Kelty Oaster won for the third time this season while
Jocelynn Itterly earned his first win of the year for the Blue Jays at the meet.
Oaster, who already won the 1,000m and 800m at F&M in prior meets there this season, made it a third victory on the Diplomats' indoor track Friday. She ran a new personal best in the 800m, 2:18.52, to win for the third time this season and move from sixth to fifth on the program's all-time list.
Itterly, who won the high jump last season at the Coach I Invite in January 2022, earned her second career indoor high jump win. She tied her personal best of 1.55m to win the event and was the only competitor to successfully clear the height. It is also the second time this season she has cleared 1.55m, which is tied for eighth on the all-time list.
The throwers had multiple place finishers in each of the events Friday night. First,
Trinity Soto took third in the weight throw with a new personal record of 12.12m, which improves her seventh-place standing in program history.
Mylea Neidig threw 11.19m to take seventh. Neidig was the runner-up in the shot put at 10.60m, also a new PR that bumps her from 10th to seventh all-time.
Maura Bradney placed fourth at 10.20m and Soto was 10th at 9.02m.
Another Blue Jay to tie her personal best was
Laura Cardona in the 60-meter hurdles. She ran 9.82 for the second time this season, which is third all-time. She was fourth in the hurdles at F&M on Friday. Cardona also ran the 60m dash and finished in 8.48, now eighth in school history.
Madison Webber and
Isabelle Smith were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 5,000m.
Maureen Bosak led for Etown runners in the top 10 in the 3k. Bosak was sixth,
Amanda Kauffman was seventh,
Katie Guelcher was eighth, and
Isabell Anderson took ninth.
Lucy Stern jumped 4.58m in the long jump to finish seventh.
Emily Ward ran 11.41 in the 60m hurdles to improved her time on the team's all-time list where she is currently 10th.
The women's track & field team will compete at the SU Invite next Saturday, February 18.
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