Day 1 Recap: Point Park leads RSC Women's Outdoor T&F Championship
Day 1 Recap: Point Park leads RSC Women's Outdoor T&F Championship
DAY 1 RESULTS
RIO GRANDE, Ohio -- After the completion of Day 1 Friday of the 2022 River States Conference Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship, Point Park (Pa.) University is in the leading and looking for a second outdoor conference title in a row.
The Pioneers scored 84 points on Friday to lead the field of 12 schools. St. Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) College is in second place with 57 points followed by host University of Rio Grande (Ohio) in third with 38. Indiana University Kokomo ended Day 1 in fourth place with 36 points.
Friday featured five of the eight field events going final and four of the 14 track events going final. Saturday will included the remaining three field events beginning at 9:30 a.m. and the remaining 10 track events beginning at 10:30 a.m. The team with the most points after two full days will be the conference champion.
Point Park pulled in a victory and a meet record in the high jump. Emma Pavelek cleared 1.67 meters to establish an RSC high-jump record for the second time this year. Point Park got 18 points from that event with Jaden Hines second.
The Pioneers also won the 10,000 meters to close out the day with Alyssa Campbell leading they way to the Pioneers scoring 20 points in that event. Point Park also got eight points from 4x800 relay and total of 21 points from individual Sopie Jebose, who scored in the pole vault (2nd), long jump (3rd), hammer throw (5th) and javelin (7th).
Another record to fall on Friday came from Midway (Ky.) University in the pole vault. Nevaeh Brown cleared 3.81 meters to get the record. That also surpassed the NAIA 'A' qualifying standard of 3.65 meters.
Midway had two records set on the day with Alexia Schofield running a championship-record time of 24.91 seconds to win the 200 meter prelims. That was also within the NAIA B standard.
2022 RSC WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIP -- DAY 1 OF 2
1. Point Park (Pa.) -- 84.00
2. St. Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) -- 57.00
3. Rio grande (Ohio) -- 37.50
4. IU Kokomo -- 36.00
5. Brescia (Ky.) -- 30.00
6. WVU Tech -- 24.00
7. Midway (Ky.) -- 23.50
8. IU East -- 22.00
9. Carlow (Pa.) -- 13.00
10. Ohio Christian -- 7.00
11. Alice Lloyd (Ky.) -- 6.00
12. Oakland City (Ind.) -- 2.00