Boston College
ACC Championship
Track & Field Concludes ACC Championship
April 23, 2011 | Women's Track & Field
April 23, 2011
Saturday's Results 
Complete Results
Durham, N.C. - Caroline King became the second outdoor ACC Champion from Boston College by winning the 800-meter run on Saturday afternoon at Duke University's Wade Wallace Stadium. The Scotia, N.Y. native submitted a 2:04.88 clip, marking just the second occasion an Eagle has run a sub-2:05 in program history and first since Kasey Hill captured the 2008 Heptathlon that BC stood atop the podium.
To deliver BC's fastest half mile time since 1980, King took the shoulder of Duke's Devotia Moore after moving in and gained the lead on the second straightaway. The field collapsed around the Eagle as the bell sounded heading in the final lap, but King burst ahead and stretched her lead by several strides. With 100 meters to go, North Carolina's Ashley Verplank kept things interesting by closing the gap to finish only 11-hundreths behind King, who captured the 10th all-conference honor since joining the ACC in 2005.
Adding onto BC's point total in the 800-meter race, Caitlin Bailey took sixth in 2:06.63, claiming three points and becoming the first athlete from Boston College to score four years at the ACC Championship.
Hope Krause set a personal record to score in the 5,000-meter run. The Eagle from New Canaan, Conn. ran on the tail end a lead pack of about 13 runners most of the way, before moving up to claim seventh place and tally two points in 16:49.38.
Jillian King and Siobhan Breagy competed in the 1,500 meter final. King went out in front running with Lauren Lemieux of Virginia. The Eagle took control around the half way point as the pace increased, but was overtaken with about a lap to go. King finished in ninth at 4:26.51, while Breagy was 11th in 4:33.81.
Michael Keebler led BC in the men's 5,000, taking 15th in a field of 41 with a 14:40.22.
The men's 4x400, composed of Joseph Stuart, Kellen MacDonald, Tyler Archer and Bradley Noss, took tenth in 3:19.16, eight-hundreths shy of breaking onto BC's all-time list.
The final standing saw the women in 11th place with 15 points.
