Drummond, Kihm Each Place First, Lady Raiders Third at PSAC West Challenge
Apr. 8, 2006
CALIFORNIA, Pa. - Led by sophomore Casey Drummond (Marple Glenn, Pa./Upper Dublin) and freshman Christine Kihm (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown) who each had first-place finishes, the Shippensburg women's track and field team totaled 153 points to place third at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West Challenge hosted by California University (Pa.) at Adamson Stadium on Saturday. Slippery Rock took home first with 262.25 points followed by Indiana (Pa.) with 166.25 points.
Drummond was the only athlete to surpass five-feet in the high jump, taking first with a leap of 5-feet, 1-inch which was three-feet higher than the four athletes that tied for second, including freshman Shae Conrad (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove) and junior Monica Speca (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Trinity). Drummond's mark is her highest this spring and qualifies her for the PSAC championships later this month.
In the pole vault, Kihm totaled her fourth first-place finish, first this spring, with a mark of 10-feet, 6-inches, placing her in a six-way tie for first. Her mark was 0.25-inches higher than her previous best of 10-feet, 5 3/4-inches set at the Fred Hardy Invitational on March 25.
Junior Julie Riccardo (Exton, Pa./Bishop Shanahan), senior Anna Mack (Olyphant, Pa./Lakeland), senior Sonia Spriggs (Avondale, Pa./Avon Grove) and junior Megan Schweighofer (Tyler Hill, Pa./Honesdale) all had runner-up finishes. Riccardo improved on her previous best of 26.68 seconds in the 200-meter dash set at last week's Terrapin Invitational with a mark of 25.80 seconds, placing her second behind Vera McDaniel of Slippery Rock who bested her top time in the PSAC by almost one second with a time of 24.40 seconds.
Mack posted the conference's second fastest time in the 100-meter hurdles this season at 15.20 seconds, placing second behind Andi Rose of Slippery Rock who has the fastest time in the PSAC this season. On Saturday, Rose took first in a mere 0.10 seconds ahead of Mack. In the hammer throw, Schweighofer placed second with a mark of 43.32 meters. Last week, she shattered her school record in the event with a throw of 49.60 meters at the Terrapin Invitational.
Spriggs placed second in the shot put at 12.19 meters which was 0.21 meters farther than her previous best of 11.98 set at the Terrapin Invitational last weekend. She also took third in the discus throw with a mark of 38.37 meters, the fourth-best in the PSAC this season, and captured fifth in the hammer throw at 36.98 meters.
As a team, the Lady Raiders had 23 top-five finishes, including a third from freshman Siobhan Richards (York Haven, Pa./York Haven) in the 100-meter dash and a third in the 3,000 meters by senior Lindsey Govern (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley). Also in the 3,000 meters, sophomores Bridget Danner (Etters, Pa./Red Land) and Christina Herman (Aston, Pa./Sun Valley) earned fourth and fifth-place finishes, respectively.
Richards also took home fourth in the 400-meter hurdles while the 4x200-meter relay team placed second and the 4x400-meter relay team was third.
Shippensburg will compete in the Bison Outdoor Classic hosted by Bucknell University next Friday, April 14 at 6:45 p.m.
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