Women's Track & Field Finishes Fourth at Ivy League Indoor Heps

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Women's Track & Field Finishes Fourth at Ivy League Indoor Heps

3/1/2015 6:03:00 PM | Women's Track & Field

By: Dartmouth

BOSTON – The Dartmouth women held on for fourth place at the 2015 Indoor Track & Field Ivy League Heptagonal Championship Sunday at Harvard's Gordon Track.

The Big Green posted 85 points for the weekend, while Harvard once again took the title with 125, winning its third-straight crown. Columbia (107) and Princeton (105) were second and third, while Cornell (75), Yale (50), Penn (38) and Brown (35) were the four teams behind Dartmouth in the standings.

Junior Dana Giordano followed up a win in the 3000m on Saturday with her second individual title of the weekend by winning the mile Sunday afternoon. Coming into the final as the top qualifier, Giordano kept things rolling with a 4:36.57 in the first track event of Sunday.

Giordano would also anchor the distance medley relay team that claimed second and eight points. The DMR quartet of Elizabeth Markowitz, Anna Kikut, Bridget O'Neill and Giordano ran an 11:37.83, nearly catching Yale (11:35.47) — which had built a sizeable lead early on — right at the finish line.

For the second time in her three years, junior Kaitlin Whitehorn won the high jump title during the Ivy indoor meet. Whitehorn edged out freshman teammate Alison Frantz for the title by clearing 5-7.25/1.71m on her first attempt at the height. Frantz — also the second-place finisher in Saturday's pentathlon — needed three attempts at the height, thus allowing Whitehorn to win as neither cleared the bar's next setting.

Jennifer Meech put together a solid day for herself, finishing fourth in the 200m (24.31) and third in the 400m (55.00), earning the Big Green a combined 10 points in the two events.

Meech was also part of the 4x440-yard relay team that ran a combined 3:43.18 to take second. That time converted to a new school record of 3:41.89 for the 4x400m relay. Meech was the anchor in the event that also featured Marissa Evans, Sarah Kikut and Erica Hendershot.

Hendershot picked up a point with a sixth-place showing in the 500m (1:14.98), while Reid Watson (16:31.46) and Sarah B DeLozier (16:38.47) were fourth and sixth, respectively, in the 5000m to earn five combined points.

Senior Marina Plesons was fifth in the pole vault, clearing 11-9.75/3.60m to earn another two points as did Molly Shapiro with a fifth-place showing in the triple jump. Shapiro's best mark was measured at 39-4.0/11.99m.