1st of 8 at NCAC championship

Sophomore Sierra Wright (Loudonville) won an event and helped 2 relay teams win conference championships, and junior Sara Johnson (Dublin/Coffman) won all-conference honors in 4 events to help Ohio Wesleyan its ninth consecutive North Coast Athletic Conference indoor track & field title at the NCAC championship meet, hosted by DePauw University on Friday and Saturday in Greencastle, Ind.

Ohio Wesleyan won the meet with 193 1/2 points to 125 for Oberlin.  Allegheny finished third with 110 points, followed by Denison (74 1/2), Wittenberg (57 1/2), Wooster (56 1/2), DePauw (56), and Kenyon (28).

Wright won the 400-meter dash in :58.38.  She also combined with sophomore Mallory McCormick (Gahanna/Bishop Hartley), senior Katie Reid (Marion/Harding), and junior Abbey Warth (Massillon/Tuslaw) to win the 1600-meter relay in 4:00.52, breaking both the NCAC record of 4:03.02 set by Kenyon in 2012 and the school record of 4:00.82 set by freshman Amanda Clay (Van Wert), Reid, Warth, and Wright earlier this season.  Wright also teamed up with Clay, freshman Emily Brown (New Concord/John Glenn), and Johnson to win the 800-meter relay in 1:44.76.

Johnson won the 60-meter hurdles in :08.90 and added second-place finishes in the 60- and 200-meter dashes, with her time of :25.93 in the 200-meter dash breaking the school record of :26.15 set by Casey Ridgeway in 2008.  In Friday's preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles, she clocked an :08.86 to break both the NCAC record of :08.95 set by Sierra DeLeon of Kenyon in 2014 and the Ohio Wesleyan record of :08.97 she set last year.

Reid also won an NCAC championship, breaking the tape in the 800-meter run in 2:16.01.

All-NCAC honors also went to sophomore Sarah Fowler (Mount Vernon/Fredericktown), who finished second in the 3000- and 5000-meter runs, with her time of 17:46.27 in the 5000 on Friday breaking the Ohio Wesleyan record of 18:02.72 set by Nina DiTraglia in 2006; Clay, who was second in the long jump, third in the 60-meter dash, and fifth in the 200-meter dash, and set a school record during the preliminaries of the 60-meter dash on Friday, with her :07.89 breaking the school standard she set earlier this season; Warth, who placed second in the mile run and third in the 800-meter run; senior Megan Gentile (Newton, Mass./North), who placed second in the shot put and sixth in the weight throw; freshman Nicole Rozsa (Silver Lake/Cuyahoga Falls), who was third in the pole vault; and junior Sarah Alflen (Avon Lake), who finished third in the shot put.

Other standouts for the Bishops included freshman Meaghan Teitelman (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle), who finished fourth in the pentathlon, fifth in the long jump, and tied for seventh in the high jump; Brown, who was fourth in the long jump, fifth in the triple jump, and eighth in the 400-meter dash; junior Amy Greenwood (Granville), who finished fourth in the triple jump; McCormick, who placed fourth in the 400-meter dash; junior Sarah Cooper (Zanesville/Maysville), who finished fourth in the weight throw; sophomore Kaillie Winston (Millington, N.J./Watchung Hills), who placed sixth in the 5000-meter run and eighth in the 3000-meter run; freshman Anna Massara (Forest/Upper Sandusky), who tied for sixth in the pole vault; freshman Hallie Sinko (Copley/Archbishop Hoban), who finished seventh in the pentathlon; sophomore Jessica Cheadle (Escondido, Calif.), who was seventh in the shot put; senior Hannah Sampson (Kent/Roosevelt), who placed eighth in the 5000-meter run; freshman Rebecca Penrod (Delaware/Buckeye Valley), who was eighth in the pole vault; senior Olivia DeMeio (Tallmadge), who placed eighth in the weight throw; and senior Alexa Katrinchak (Elyria/Midview), who was eighth in the 60-meter hurdles.

The Ohio Wesleyan distance medley relay team of freshman Rachell Resnik (Van Buren), freshman Lindsi Woods (Lima/Allen East), senior Alexa Katrinchak (Elyria/Midview), and freshman Rheanna Wilson (Cambridge/New Concord John Glenn) finished fifth.

Ohio Wesleyan head coach Kris Boey was named NCAC Coach of the Year.

Final Results