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Jan. 15, 2005

Complete Results

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Despite some fine individual performances, a strong showing by the RedHawk freshman class and even a school-record performance, the Miami women's track and field team finished third in a crowded top of the standings at the Bowling Green Invitational Saturday afternoon. Western Michigan won the meet with 227.5 points, ahead of the host Falcons (221.5) and RedHawks (212). Ohio (123.5 points) and Detroit Mercy (111.5) rounded out the five-team field.

Sophomore Lashonda Davis (Kokomo, Ind./Kokomo) followed up her school-record breaking performance at Kent State last month with an all-around productive day, finishing in the top four in four events. Davis took second in the 60-meter dash, finishing in 7.68 seconds, just three-hundredths behind Bowling Green's Jessica White. She then took fourth in the 200 in 26.21 and fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 37-0 1/4 while winning the second long jump in as many meets. At Kent State, Davis leapt a school-record 20-3, while she matched her previous best going into the season with a 19-0 1/4 long jump Saturday.

Other top-three finishes from returners included Taryn Nye's (St. Johnsbury, Vt./St. Johnsbury) second-place finish in the 600 in 1:40.80, less than two seconds behind WMU's Rachel Lindman. Fellow junior Lindsey Arundel (Rocky River, Ohio/Magnificat) posted a third-place finish in the shot put with a 42-8 3/4 toss. Miami's 4x400 squad came in second in 4:04.75, seven seconds behind a Western Michigan foursome.

Miami's freshman class was headlined by the school-record breaking pole vault from Sarah Landau (Geneva, Ill./Geneva), who vaulted 12-5 1/2, breaking the previous indoor mark of 12-0 by senior Tabitha Schwartz (Concord, Va./Appomatox). Schwartz took third on Saturday with an 11-5 3/4 vault while sophomore Jackie Marquardt (Custer Park, Ill./Reed-Custer) made it three RedHawks in the top five with a fifth-place 10-0 vault. With Davis' long jump and Landau's pole vault win, freshman Kristina Bolterstein (Middleburg Heights, Ohio/Midpark) won the high jump, matching her personal best at 5-8.

Rookie Jennie Stoll (Pewaukee, Wis./Pewaukee), in her first performance since the cross country season, posted a pair of third-place finishes in the 800 (2:21.56) and 1600 (5:08.26), while Tricia Frisella (St. Louis, Mo./Visitation Academy) took second in the 3000 in 10:30.31. First-year Miami runner Kristen Proach (Canton, Ohio/St. Thomas Aquinas) finished third in the 5K in 18:25.87.

Next Saturday, Miami competes at the Eastern Illinois Invitational in Charleston, Ill.