Complete Results
Final Team Scores
TULSA, Okla. – It came down to the homestretch of the final event, but the streak lived on.
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The North Dakota State women's track & field team pulled out a win in the 4x400m relay to share the conference team championship with South Dakota on Saturday afternoon at the Summit League Outdoor Championships. Over the three-day, 21-event meet, both the Bison and Coyotes scored exactly 263 points to tie for the team title.
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The win extends NDSU's nation-best outdoor conference championship streak to 11 years.
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Trailing South Dakota by four points going into the final event, NDSU's
Alyssa Lind,
Deidre Hahn,
Peyton Frolek and
Alexis Woods brought home a first-place finish and 10 team points in the 4x400m relay in 3:42.73. The Coyotes finished third, earning six team points and securing the tie.
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It was the 11th straight Summit League outdoor 4x400m title for the Bison women.
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Woods defended her conference title in the 400m dash in 54.86, leading a Bison sweep of the top three places with Hahn (55.80) and Lind (personal-best 55.86) for 24 critical team points. Woods also ran 24.02 for third place in the 200m dash.
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The Bison women swept the top six places in the shot put, with senior
Courtney Pasiowitz claiming the title on her final throw with a school-record mark of 54-03.25 (16.54m).
Bailey Retzlaff was the runner-up, adding more than one foot to her personal-best that ranks third in school history at 53-11.75 (16.45m).
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Junior
Shelby Gunnells placed third in the shot put, throwing a personal-best 52-02.75 (15.92m) to rank fourth all-time at NDSU.
Kelsey Laufenberg,
Maggie Schwarzkopf and
Maddy Nilles completed the Bison sweep of the top six.
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NDSU senior
Piper Jensen placed third in the triple jump with a personal-best leap of 42-00.75 (12.82m) that ranks her third in NDSU history. Sophomore
Bailey DeMar finished seventh in the triple jump with a personal-best mark of 40-11.75 (12.49m) to rank sixth all-time at NDSU.
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In her fourth distance race of the meet, junior
Katie Bostrom gutted out a third-place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:12.31. NDSU's
Maea Wall,
Paige Harris and
Dakota Wood finished fourth, fifth, and seventh in the 400m hurdles.
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Hahn,
Gabby Grommesh, Lind and Woods took third in the 4x100m relay in a season-best 46.34.
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Annika Rotvold finished fifth in both the 1500m (4:33.69) and 5000m (17:37.39), and
Jen Dufner took seventh (4:36.58) in the 1500m for the Bison.
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After earning a runner-up finish in the heptathlon on Friday, senior
Jaelin Beachy came through with a sixth-place finish for the Bison women in the 100m hurdles, running 14.41.
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