On the women's track and field side of the coin, Saturday's Cedarville Yellow Jacket Collegiate Open was a day where the multi-sport athletes shined -- as Haidyn Wamsley and the sister tandem of Makenna and Makaela Lovely posted point-scoring finishes in the javelin throw, long jump and high jump while Brianna Brudy notched an impressive time of her own in the 100 and 200 meter dashes.
Their efforts, along with that of distance runners Jessica Elick, Olivia Cisco and Jozi Brown, headed up a solid 24.5 point effort for Shawnee State, who only finished behind three NCAA Division I programs (Bellarmine, Cleveland State, Wright State), two NCAA Division II programs (Cedarville, Wayne State) and two NCAA Division III programs (Adrian, Wittenberg) in its team performance as the top NAIA school on the list.
In notching its 24.5 point total as a team, the Bears bettered fellow NAIA programs in Goshen, Rio Grande, Ohio Christian, and Alice Lloyd as well as NCAA Division III programs in Ohio Dominican and Wilmington.
Wamsley, who continues to produce every time out, scored 11 of those points on her own, posting a 17-foot, six-and-a-quarter-inch throw in the long jump and adding in a 95-foot, one-inch throw in the javelin to finish third and fourth in both of those events.
High-jump wise, the Lovely sisters each posted a mark of four feet, 10-and-a-quarter inches in the high jump to rack up an additional 6.5 points between them. Brudy, Wamsley, the Lovely sisters and Ivy Gentry then combined to add another point with their eighth place finish in the women's 4-by-100 meter relay.
From a distance running standpoint, Elick's eighth-place time of 19:50.80 in the 5,000 meter run led the charge. Cisco and Brown closed out the point-producing efforts for the Bears -- as Cisco clicked off a 2:33.72 to finish 10th in the 800 meter run while Brown posted a 5:05.22 to notch an 11th place effort in the 1,500 meter run.
Finishing just outside of the points in stacked fields were Amanda Salmons, who finished 12th in the 800 meter run with a 2:36.52, and Cisco, who also placed placed 13th in the 1,500 meter run, collecting a 5:05.98 to finish just behind Brown.
Brudy, who competed in the 100 and 200 meter dashes, placed 13th in the 100 with a time of 12.71 -- just missing the final scoring spot by two-tenths and one-one hundredth of a second -- and fared even better in the 200, posting a 26.02 to come within three-tenths and four one-hundredths of a second of the final scoring spot while bettering her time from the Charlotte 49er Classic by over a half-second.
Additional
Other performances included:
Women's Javelin Throw: Shelby Rhoden, ninth, 79 feet, 10 inches; Faith Kuhn, 10th, 73 feet, seven inches
Women's Long Jump: Ivy Gentry, 10th, 16 feet, two-and-a-quarter inches; Marli Marcum, 16th, 15 feet, six-and-a-quarter inches
Women's Discus Throw: Shelby Rhoden, 18th, 102 feet, six inches
Women's Shot Put: Faith Kuhn, 19th, 32 feet, three-and-three-quarters inches; Shelby Rhoden, 24th, 30 feet, six-and-a-quarter inches
Women's 1,500 meter run: Amanda Salmons, 25th, 5:22.32; Juniper Allen, 27th, 5:24.57; Beth Middleton, 31st, 5:30.26
Women's 800 meter run: Beth Middleton, 27th, 2:49.36; Juniper Allen, 33rd, 2:54.22
Women's 200 meter dash: Ivy Gentry, 40th, 28.32
Women's 5,000 meter run: Sydney Reed, 15th, 20:52.54; Mckenna Pannell, 19th, 21:46.61; Natalie Brammer, 23rd, 23:26.40
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