Teams: Women's Track & Field: Schedule & Results

COLLEGE WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD RESULTS
New England Div. 3 Championships
Friday-Saturday, May 2-3, 2008
At New London, CT

Meet Results

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Sophomore Logan Crane (Portland, ME) of the Tufts University women's track & field team is New England Division 3's fastest sprinter this season. She won the 100 meters in 12.35 seconds at the regional championship meet hosted by the Coast Guard Academy on Friday and Saturday. Tufts also had the fastest 4x100 relay foursome at the event with a winning time of 49.28 seconds.

Crane also ran the anchor leg for the winning 4x100 foursome. The other Jumbos in the group were senior Jenna Weir (New York, NY), senior co-captain Kaleigh Fitzpatrick (Lynnfield, MA) and sophomore Andrea Ferri (Dracut, MA).They edged the team from Williams by three-tenths of a second to win the race. 

The Jumbos scored well in the field events, helping the team total 66.5 points to place fifth at the meet. First-year Allison Fechter (Haddonfield, NJ) established a new Tufts record by clearing 10'8" in the pole vault to for third place. She surpassed the previous Tufts mark of 10'6" by Myrium Claudio in 2003. Tufts scored among the top three in three field events overall. Weir was the runner-up in the long jump with a 17'1 1/4" mark (5.21m). First-year Kanku Kabongo (Abington, MA) also earned a second place, reaching 36'4 3/4" in the triple jump (11.09m). Crane added a sixth-place performance in the long jump with 16'8 3/4" distance (5.1m).

Ferri had an excellent effort in the heptathlon, scoring 3,698 points for third place. She tied for first in the 200 meters with a time of 27.23 seconds on the first day and won the javelin on Saturday with a 96'8" (29.46m) throw. Fitzpatrick ran third in the 200 meters and junior Paula Dormon (Brockton, MA) was fifth in the shot put at 38'7 1/2" (11.77m).

Williams College won the New England Div. 3 title with 111 points.

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