CONWAY, Ark. — In the two previous track meets of the 2009 season, the Bryant LadyHornets and the Conway Lady Cats have battled to a one-two finish withBryant being victorious in both. On Friday night at the Conway WampusCat Relays, the Lady Cats reversed the finish order, defending their hometurf with a strong performance.
Conway took their home meetchampionship scoring 155 points with Bryant finishing runner-up with 136points. Russellville finished a distant third with 75 points.
“My hat is off to Conway," said Lady Hornets coach Danny Westbrook. "They came out and competed and performedextremely well tonight. I think we must have made them mad afterwinning those two previous meets.
"We were healthy and have no excuses," he added. "We just seemed to be a little flat and, as a whole, lacked thecompetitiveness that we’ve had before. I hope we can get that fixedbecause one of our goals for this season is to win our conferencechampionship and Conway definitely stands in the way of accomplishingthat goal.”
Jordan Chadwick was the leading scorer for the Lady Hornets with 26points. Morgan Seelinger added 18 points.[more]
Bryant Lady Hornet Scorers:
100 meter hurdles – Jordan Chadwick – 2nd – 16.3; Lacie Raney – 4th –17.1
300 meter hurdles – Morgan Seelinger – 2nd – 50.1; Morgan Humbard – 5th– 58.4
200 meter dash – Jordan Chadwick – 3rd – 27.2; Ashley Petz – 6th – 27.5
400 meter dash – Jordan Chadwick – 1st – 1:01.1; Lacie Raney – 2nd –1:02.4
800 meter run – Mikayla Speake – 2nd – 2:36; Dylan Vail – 4th – 2:38;Leah Skinner – 6th – 2:42
1600 meter run – Dylan Vail – 5th – 6:11; Jessica Shepard – 8th – 6:18
3200 meter run – Lola Fleming – 6th – 13:29; Katherine Thompson – 6th –13:35; Kaytlyn Stracener – 7th – 13:58
4 x 100 meter relay – Brandii Robinson, Seelinger, Speake, Petz – 5th –53.6
4 x 400 meter relay – Raney, Seelinger, Petz, Chadwick – 1st – 4:32.1
4 x 800 meter relay – Speake, Skinner, Ruple, Vail – 1st – 10:53
Pole Vault – Catherine Fletcher – 2nd – 9’0”; Karlee Porter – 6th – 6’0”
Long Jump – Ashley Petz – 3rd – 16’5”; Morgan Seelinger – 6th – 15’6”
Triple Jump – Morgan Seelinger – 3rd – 32’6”; Lacie Raney – 6th – 29’5”
The Lady Hornets will next compete at the Cabot Panther Relays on April16.
