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Women's Track Wins Reebok Boston Indoor Games
January 31, 2009 | Women's Track & Field
Jan. 31, 2009
BOSTON, Mass. - The Boston College women's track team won the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on Friday at the Reggie Lewis Center in Boston. The Eagles won five events on the day, led by junior Caitlyn Bailey who reached the NCAA Provisional qualifying mark in the 800m.
BC finished the event with 165 points while South Florida came in second with 128. Northeastern, Vermont, and UMass rounded out the top five.
The top three finishers in the 800m run were all Eagles. Bailey won the event with a time of 2:07.95. Heitkamp came in second at 2:11.29 and sophomore Siobhan Breagy finished third by crossing the line in 2:12.37.
Freshman Georgette Asfoura picked up her first collegiate win in the high jump by clearing 1.68m.
The 4x400m relay team of Bailey, junior Meaghan Callahan, and freshmen Sara Missert and Anna Cioffredi took home the win with a time of 3:51.91.
Senior Mallory Champa won the mile with a time of 4:51.79 while four of her teammates finished behind her in the top five. Graduate student Mary Heitkamp finished second (4:52.53), junior Gretchen Andrus was third (4:57.46), graduate student Nikki Tufts finished fourth (4:57.65), and junior Samantha Gawrych rounded out the top five (4:57.85).
Gawrych won the 1000m by crossing the finish line in 2:52.64. Sophomore Madeline Wallace finished right behind her at 2:52.99 while junior Christine Sullivan finished in fourth at 2:57.14.
Freshman Anna Cioffredi took second in the 400m at 57.06 while junior Meaghan Callahan finished right behind her at 57.61. Senior Alicia Henry finished third in the 500m at 1:17.69 and Missert was right on her tail at 1:17.77.
Tufts also finished second in the 3000m with a time of 10:14.32. Junior Lauren Johnston (10:20.60), senior Nichole Lister (10:21.23), and sophomore Christy Titus (10:22.30) took fifth, sixth, and seventh in the event, respectively.
BC will compete in the Giegengack Invitational hosted by Yale on February 6.
