Duke Women Secure Meet Record in 4x400m Relay

Saturday, April 22

Durham, N.C.

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Day Two at Duke Invite

Duke Women Secure Meet Record in 4x400m Relay

4/22/2017 10:26:00 PM | Track & Field

Senior Day Recognition Full Results

By: Duke Sports Information

DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke track & field program concluded competition at the Duke Invite today at Morris Williams Stadium with one meet record, one time that ranks on the Duke all-time list and 24 top-10 marks.

“This meet was great,” said head coach Norm Ogilvie. “We built this venue to have meets like this. We had 2,000 athletes over two days. Yesterday we had great weather and today was a little different. The temperature dropped 20 degrees and that's definitely tough to compete in. Overall, we had some good performances over the weekend and we confirmed a lot of what we already knew this weekend. We competed tough in a lot of different events and it was a good experience. I think the athletes enjoyed it and we were able to honor our seniors today as well.”

Members of the women's sprint squad highlighted today's meet with a Duke Invite meet record in the 4x400m relay with their first-place finish. MacKenzie Kerr, Sydnei Murphy, Brittany Aveni and Madeline Kopp dominated with a huge time of 3:42.96 to finish 10 seconds faster than the second-place finisher.

The 4x100m relay team also performed well today as Murphy, Kopp, Kerr and India Lowe clocked in a season-best time of 45.16 to rank as the second-fastest time in Duke history.

Both the men's and women's pole vault squads were outstanding today on their home turf as senior Connor Hall posted the second-best clearance in Duke history with a 17-1.00 (5.21) mark.

Madison Heath took first place on the women's side with a clearance of 13-10.00 (4.22), followed by Laura Marty in second with 13-6.25 (4.12). Nati Sheppard and Chesney Ward completed the women's performance with marks of 12-10.25 (3.92) and 12-4.50 (3.77), respectively. Ward's clearance registered as a personal-best, as well as Daniel Golubovic's 15-9.25 (4.81) height.

Sophomore Jeremy McDuffie secured a solid performance yesterday to qualify for the finals in the men's 110m hurdles. McDuffie placed sixth today in a time of 14.55. McDuffie also competed in the triple jump and finished ninth with a leap of 46-11.75 (14.32).

Also qualifying for today's final sections was sophomores Sydnei Murphy and Domonique Panton in the 100m. Murphy clocked in at 11.73 followed by Panton in 12.31 to finish fourth and seventh, respectively.

Rounding out the short distance track events was Kerr with a personal-best 24.42 in the women's 200m.

The women's distance runners performed well today in the 1,500m as Liz Lansing, Kim Hallowes and Gabrielle Richichi each posted top-10 finishes. Lansing clocked in at 4:27.32 to take second, followed by Hallowes close behind in a personal-best 4:27.87 to take third. Richichi rounded out the complete Blue Devil takeover in seventh for her first 1,500m race in 4:36.92.

Competing for the men was highlighted by Tom Sullivan's tenth-place finish in a personal best 3:53.42. Matt Wisner, Nikhil Pulimood and Stephen Garrett competed in their first 1,500m of their careers and clocked in at 3:55.55, 3:56.20 and 3:58.78, respectively.

Freshman AJ Eckmann posted a solid 9:43.72 in the 3,0000m steeplechase to take seventh place.

In field events, Nicholas Solfanelli and Kiegan Lenihan represented Duke in the men's javelin competition and finished third and fourth, respectively. Solfanelli tossed the implement 205-7 (62.66) followed by Lenihan's 197-4 (60.14).

Cassie Martin placed sixth in the women's high jump competition with a clearance of 5-4.25 (1.63), followed by Tracy Jander at the same height to tie for ninth.

On the men's side was Rivers Ridout with a third-place finish with a 6-7.00 (2.01) leap.

Golubovic registered a personal-best 159-8 (48.67) toss in the men's discus competition to claim eighth while senior Amarie Bremel finished in fifth with 153-0 (46.64).

The Blue Devils will be back in action next weekend April 27-29 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa.

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