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Two Events as Women's Track Places Fifth at Ivy League Heptagonals
May 07, 2006 | Women's Track and Field
May 7, 2006
Complete Results
PHILADELPHIA - Senior Cack Ferrell won both the 5,000 meters and 3,000 meters, regaining the lead in the 3,000 in the final stretch, to lead Princeton to a fifth-place finish at the 2006 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships Sunday at Franklin Field.
The Tigers made a late charge to finish with 81 points on the day, good for fifth place ahead of Dartmouth, Harvard and Columbia. Cornell won its fifth straight outdoor Heps team title, finishing with 152 1/2 points.
Ferrell, who also won two events at indoor Heps in February (the mile and the 3,000), began the day with a win in the 5,000 in the morning in the first track event of the day. She ran with the pack for most of the 12 1/2 laps before breaking away and and defeating Dartmouth's Melanie Schorr by nearly five seconds. Her time of 16:26.82 was one of the top 10 times in meet history.
The 3,000 came several hours later, toward the end of the meet, and Ferrell won it in dramatic fashion. She lost the lead on the final turn but then recovered in the stretch to edge teammate Catha Mullen and Yale's Lindsay Donaldson in an extremely close finish. Ferrell's time was 9:35.17, whlle Mullen's mark was 9:35.42 and Donaldson's 9:35.55.
Princeton also took fourth and fifth place in the event, with Suzanne Andrews and Jolee van Leuven finishing the pack just behind the leaders.
Yale's Joslyn Woodard concluded a stellar Heps career by earning Most Outstanding Performer honors at the meet. Woodard won the long jump and 200 meters, setting Outdoor Heps records in each event, and also took the 100 meters for three wins on the weekend. Her 20 overall Heps wins (indoors and outdoors) are the most by a woman athlete in league history. In the relays, the Tigers had a strong performance in the 4X800 near the end of the meet. The team of Liz Bergold, Lindsay Cole, Karen Aherne and Jordan Wagenseller was second behind Brown in a time of 8:52.16.