Women’s Track & Field Opens 2021 Season At Gordon

WENHAM, Mass. – The Endicott women's track and field team saw two school records established and nine top-10 all-time finishes posted at the Gordon Invitational on Saturday evening to open up the 2021 season.

Hevyn Pray (Rehoboth, Mass.) highlighted the Gulls with a record-breaking performance in the 100-meter dash. Pray finished second overall with a time of 13.48-seconds, beating her old mark by .8-tenths of a second (13.56).

Meanwhile, Endicott's eight other top-10 all-time finishes came in the 200, 4x100, 4x400, steeplechase, long jump, triple jump, 1,500, and 100 hurdles, respectively.

TOP QUOTE

"Today was a special day to be back out on the track with the team after not having competed in over 400 days," said Endicott women's track and field head coach Spencer Lange. "This group has put in so much work and they were excited to have the chance to be out there against the competition. I am proud of the energy they brought today and to remember what that race feeling is like. We will now head back to The Nest to continue the work, but this was a great stop along the way and to test our fitness."

OTHER ENDICOTT HIGHLIGHTS

• Prey also finished second overall in the 200-meter dash with a time of 28.07.
• Ella Aldrich (Winchester, Mass.) was fourth in the 1,500-meter run (5:31.21).
• Bianca Del Maestro (Malden, Mass.) won the 100-meter hurdles (17.08) and the high jump (4-feet, 7.75-inches).
• Emma Farrington (Essex Junction, Vt.) claimed top honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (12:01.91).
• The Gulls' quartet of Del Maestro, Pray, Taylor Papa (Tolland, Conn.), and Alexa Flewelling (Peabody, Mass.) placed first overall in the 4x100-meter relay (53.97; school record 52.50).
• Endicott's 4x400-meter relay consisting of Olivia Folkes (Amston, Conn.), Kira Charrier (Dartmouth, Mass.), Kylie Lorenzo (Newbury, Mass.), and Amanda Recupero (Ipswich, Mass.) ranked second overall (4:38.52).
• Kelsey Hunter (Simi Valley, Calif.) placed second in the triple jump (31-feet, 10-inches) and fifth in the long jump (14-9.25).
• Endicott competed in the distance medley relay for the first time in program history as Aldrich, Charrier, Recupero, and Farrington came in second with a time of 14:11.27 (school record).

WHAT'S NEXT

Endicott will compete in the University of New England (UNE) Invitational on Sunday, April 18. 

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(Photo Credit - David Le '10)