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Bison Women Win 9th Straight Summit League Indoor Track & Field Title
2/27/2016 8:47:00 PM | Women's Track and Field
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Results
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Another Summit League Track & Field Championship has come and gone, and another first-place trophy is going home with the North Dakota State women.
The Bison won their 9th consecutive Summit League indoor team title on Saturday afternoon, running their streak to 17 straight team championships counting outdoor crowns. NDSU has won every possible league title since joining the Summit League in 2008.
NDSU finished with 220.5 points in the team standings. South Dakota was the team runner-up with 181.5 points, and South Dakota State took third with 107.
The Bison women captured four more event titles on Saturday, the final day of the meet. Senior Erin Teschuk won the mile, junior Amy Andrushko finished first in the 800m, sophomore Courtney Pasiowitz took first in the shot put, and the 4x400m relay team of Melissa Kitching, Alexis Woods, Morgan Milbrath and Rose Jackson won to give the Bison women four straight league titles in the event.
Teschuk clocked 4:41.78 in the mile for her second individual title of the weekend. Taylor Janssen earned All-Summit League honors in third place, finishing in a career-best 4:58.21.
Pasiowitz threw 52-08.00 (16.05m) for the win in the shot put, leading a 1-3-5-8 finish by the Bison women. Freshman Shelby Gunnells placed third with a personal-best toss of 50-08.00 (15.44m) that ranks her fourth in NDSU history. Katelyn Weimerskirch was fifth, and Kelsey Laufenberg took eighth to score 21 team points for the Bison in the event.
Andrushko ran the 800m in 2:11.11 to win her first indoor individual league title. Junior Jenny Guibert placed third in 2:13.67.
Milbrath was the runner-up in the 400m dash, running an indoor personal-best 54.84 to stand as the fifth-fastest woman in NDSU history in the event. She added a third-place finish in the 200m dash, clocking the second-fastest time of her indoor career at 24.60.
Sophomore Brittany Brownotter earned a Summit League runner-up finish in the 5000m, clocking a personal-best of 17:17.73 to rank seventh in school history. Freshman Emma Kusch Dahle ran 17:29.27 to place sixth.
Senior Ann Govig cleared an indoor career-best 5-05.75 (1.67m) in the high jump for third place, and Lexy Boschee (5th) and Amanda Levin (8th) both also placed for the Bison.
In the pole vault, the NDSU women finished fourth, fifth, and seventh with Anna Benke, Brittany Stangl and Klara Lyon, respectively. Benke and Stangl both cleared 13-01.75 (4.01m), and Lyon vaulted 12-08.00 (3.86m).
Kitching (56.99) and Woods (57.04) finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 400m.
Junior Allie Lahren placed fifth in the triple jump at 37-01.25 (11.31m).
The Bison had three placewinners in the 60m hurdles, with Dakota Wood sixth, Lexy Boschee seventh and Maea Wall eighth.
Results
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Another Summit League Track & Field Championship has come and gone, and another first-place trophy is going home with the North Dakota State women.
The Bison won their 9th consecutive Summit League indoor team title on Saturday afternoon, running their streak to 17 straight team championships counting outdoor crowns. NDSU has won every possible league title since joining the Summit League in 2008.
NDSU finished with 220.5 points in the team standings. South Dakota was the team runner-up with 181.5 points, and South Dakota State took third with 107.
The Bison women captured four more event titles on Saturday, the final day of the meet. Senior Erin Teschuk won the mile, junior Amy Andrushko finished first in the 800m, sophomore Courtney Pasiowitz took first in the shot put, and the 4x400m relay team of Melissa Kitching, Alexis Woods, Morgan Milbrath and Rose Jackson won to give the Bison women four straight league titles in the event.
Teschuk clocked 4:41.78 in the mile for her second individual title of the weekend. Taylor Janssen earned All-Summit League honors in third place, finishing in a career-best 4:58.21.
Pasiowitz threw 52-08.00 (16.05m) for the win in the shot put, leading a 1-3-5-8 finish by the Bison women. Freshman Shelby Gunnells placed third with a personal-best toss of 50-08.00 (15.44m) that ranks her fourth in NDSU history. Katelyn Weimerskirch was fifth, and Kelsey Laufenberg took eighth to score 21 team points for the Bison in the event.
Andrushko ran the 800m in 2:11.11 to win her first indoor individual league title. Junior Jenny Guibert placed third in 2:13.67.
Milbrath was the runner-up in the 400m dash, running an indoor personal-best 54.84 to stand as the fifth-fastest woman in NDSU history in the event. She added a third-place finish in the 200m dash, clocking the second-fastest time of her indoor career at 24.60.
Sophomore Brittany Brownotter earned a Summit League runner-up finish in the 5000m, clocking a personal-best of 17:17.73 to rank seventh in school history. Freshman Emma Kusch Dahle ran 17:29.27 to place sixth.
Senior Ann Govig cleared an indoor career-best 5-05.75 (1.67m) in the high jump for third place, and Lexy Boschee (5th) and Amanda Levin (8th) both also placed for the Bison.
In the pole vault, the NDSU women finished fourth, fifth, and seventh with Anna Benke, Brittany Stangl and Klara Lyon, respectively. Benke and Stangl both cleared 13-01.75 (4.01m), and Lyon vaulted 12-08.00 (3.86m).
Kitching (56.99) and Woods (57.04) finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 400m.
Junior Allie Lahren placed fifth in the triple jump at 37-01.25 (11.31m).
The Bison had three placewinners in the 60m hurdles, with Dakota Wood sixth, Lexy Boschee seventh and Maea Wall eighth.
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