Scots Finish Indoor Season at New England Championships

2/22/2014 10:41:00 PM

Men's Results / Women's Results
SPRINGFIELD, Mass..—Gordon College Women's Track and Field headed west to Springfield College on Saturday to compete at the Division III New England Championships.

In the day's first race, the women's Distance Medley Relay of sophomores Hannah Fisher (1200m), Sarah Warne (400m), Mariah Geiger (800m) and Leanne Beedle (1600m) found themselves in the midst of a hotly contested battle. The quartet raced to a new school record of 13:25.01 for 13th place. Geiger and Beedle each ran several seconds faster than they had two weeks prior at BU, while Warne and Fisher remained strong. The team lowered a record, which had been set last season, by just under four seconds.

Next up for the Scots was the 600 meter run, and freshman Corrine Previte looked to lower her own school best for the second consecutive meet. Previte did not disappoint, cruising to second in her heat in 1:43.81, besting her mark by .4 seconds and qualifying to run the 500m at ECAC's in two weeks.

Previte teamed up with Beedle, Warne and sophomore Leanna D'Alfonso for the meets penultimate event, the 4 x 400m relay. D'Alfonso, running the relay fresh for the first time this season, came through the first 400 in 62-flat, setting the pace for the Gordon women. It was Beedle second, Previte third and Warne anchoring, bringing the team home in 4:20.88, for the third school record of the day.

While the women stormed the wild western part of Massachusetts, the Gordon men headed to Cambridge to compete at MIT.

Junior transfer Zak Flowers entered the meet knowing it would be his last chance to compete this season, but hoped to qualify for the ECAC's nonetheless. Zak will travel to Nicaragua this spring break with a mission's team from Gordon.

During the preliminaries, Zak had a best throw of 14.77m, which qualified him for the finals, but was still 43 cm off his best of the year. In the finals, he threw 15.21m, to break his own Gordon record by 1 cm, and then blew that away with a 15.45 on his final throw. In the process, Zak finished 5th, for All-New England honors and qualified for the ECAC Championship, which he will be unable to attend.

In the relays, the men put together a competitive Distance Medley team with senior Andrew Kwiatkowski (1200m), freshman Colin Smith (400m), sophomore transfer Alex Russell (800m) and sophomore Wes Nelson (1600m). They battled to a hard-fought 13th place in 11:21.25.

The men's 4 x 400m relay—Asher Gray, Neal Olson, Colin Ponzani and Ben Sebuufu—came up just short of the school record in 3:38.67. In Ponzani's first appearance in the relay, the team missed the mark by just over a second and a half.

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