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PHILADELPHIA – East Stroudsburg University defended its Wetzler/Pennsylvania 4x400 relay title, winning back-to-back Keystone State crowns for the first time since 1984-85, to cap the Warriors' second day at the Penn Relays on Friday at historic Franklin Field.

Junior Ian Melhorn and seniors Greg Pammer and Negus Graham repeated as 4x400 champions and freshman Keith Parker-Washington led off as the Warriors cruised to a time of 3:17.68, almost three seconds ahead of runner-up West Chester, in a field of six Pennsylvania schools and Delaware.

Two Warriors ran 48.8-second splits, Melhorn on the second leg and Graham on the anchor, to cap busy days on the track at Franklin Field. The duo also ran on the 4x100 and 4x200 relays earlier in the day to help ESU to a pair of the top times among Division II teams at Penn.

The men's and women's 4x200 relays ran the second- and third-fastest times in school history, respectively, and the men's 4x100 won its heat in a photo finish earlier in the afternoon.

The quartet of Melhorn (21.6), Parker-Washington (21.3), senior Asher Ashfield (22.0) and Graham (21.0) finished 16th in the field and third among Division II schools in the 4x200 with a time of 1:25.97, six-tenths of a second off last year's school record of 1:25.37.

In the women's 4x200, senior Jasmine Johnson anchored the Warriors to a time of 1:42.67 with a leg of 24.8 seconds, one day after running the second-fastest 4x400 relay split in school history in 56.0. Freshmen Nicole Brown (25.4), Colleen Murphy (26.4) and Rachel Pierantozzi (26.0) ran the first three legs on ESU's fastest time in the event since setting the school record of 1:41.62 in 2002.

The men's 4x100 had the fourth-best time among Division II schools and won its heat with a time of 41.63, as Melhorn outleaned the anchor from Boston University after opening legs from Ashfield, Parker-Washington and Graham. The Warriors, who have an NCAA provisional time of 41.17 from earlier this season, were tied for 22nd of the 84 schools in the field.

Junior Josh Hontz, an NCAA provisional qualifier in the javelin, and the men's 4x800 relay will cap the Warriors' three-day trip to Franklin Field on Saturday.

On Thursday, sophomore Rose Mascoli ran an NCAA automatic qualifying time and shattered her own school record while finishing second in the women's 10,000m run, sophomore Corinne Fitzgerald broke 11:00 in the 3000m steeplechase for the second time in her career and the women's 4x400 relay ran ESU's fourth-fastest time led by Johnson's 56.0-second anchor lap.


ESU Results – Friday

Men's 4x100m Relay – 4th in Division II
t-22 (of 82), 1st of 7 in heat. Asher Ashfield, Keith Parker-Washington, Negus Graham, Ian Melhorn – 41.63

Men's 4x200m Relay – 3rd in Division II
16 (of 49), 5th of 9 in heat. Ian Melhorn 21.6, Keith Parker-Washington 21.3, Asher Ashfield 22.0, Negus Graham 21.0 – 1:25.97

Men's 4x400m Relay – second straight Wetzler/PA championship
1 (of 7). Keith Parker-Washington 49.4, Ian Melhorn 48.8, Greg Pammer 50.6, Negus Graham 48.8 – 3:17.68

Women's 4x200m Relay
41 (of 59), 6th of 9 in heat. Nicole Brown 25.4, Colleen Murphy 26.4, Rachel Pierantozzi 26.0, Jasmine Johnson 24.8 – 1:42.67