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EDINBORO, Pa. – Senior Steve Morgan claimed his fifth career PSAC title with a victory in the 60-meter hurdles, while sophomore Aspen Gaita (60m hurdles) and sophomore Khai Samuels (800m) each registered their first conference titles for East Stroudsburg University on Day 2 of the 2017 PSAC Indoor Championships.

Morgan has now won a pair of 60m hurdle races at the conference stage to go along with three 110m hurdle titles outdoors. Gaita lowered her school and PSAC records in her victory, and Samuels beat out his closest competitor by over 1.5 seconds in a dominant performance.

The Warrior men ended the two-day meet in third place with 78 points, cracking the top three for a ninth time in 11 years. The women took fifth place with 53 points, moving up four spots from their ninth place showing last winter.

Morgan completed the 60m hurdle final in 8.06, matching his personal best and NCAA Division II provisional mark previously set on Feb. 3 at the Armory in Manhattan. The time is two-hundredths off the ESU record of 8.04 set by Rusty Smith in 2008. Junior Christian Castro joined Morgan in Sunday's final, and he added three additional points to the Warriors' team score after crossing the line in sixth place with a time of 8.33.

Gaita entered her race as the No. 1 qualifier, and she lived up to those expectations with a first-place time of 8.54, beating out her nearest competitor by 0.08. That mark is 0.05 quicker than her previous ESU and PSAC record of 8.59 set on Dec. 9 at Lehigh, and it is the ninth-fastest registered in Division II this season. Gaita is ESU's first 60m hurdles champion on the women's side since Lauren Ventrella in 2010.

Samuels had a career-best effort of 1:55.32 in the 800m entering the weekend, but he lowered that mark down to 1:53.73 to finish well ahead of IUP's Austin Cooper in second (1:55.37). Samuels now ranks No. 2 all-time in ESU history, just back of Mike Saparito's school record of 1:53.19 set in 2011, and he was only three-hundredths away from the NCAA DII provisional oversized track standard of 1:53.70.

The Warriors had 13 other top eight individual showings on the day, with four of those coming in the women's high jump alone. Sophomore Victoria Matthews highlighted the event with an NCAA provisional clearance of 5-6 which tied her with Bloomsburg's Joselyn Estrada-Pascual for second place. Matthews is now No. 10 in program history after beating out her previous PR by three inches.

Gaita (sixth, 5-3 3/4), freshman Sarah Smith (t-eighth, 5-2 1/2) and sophomore Carly Gregas (t-eighth, 5-2 1/2) also scored for ESU in the high jump.

Freshman Tiana Webster had the next highest showing for the Warriors, as she took third in the 60m dash final after matching her preliminary time of 7.79 (tied for No. 3 all-time). Senior Robert Garvey, senior La Treil Ridgeway, freshman Noah Lockwood and junior Kaylyn West added top five individual efforts for ESU.

Garvey lowered his personal-best down to 49.72 with a fourth-place finish in the 400m (No. 8 all-time), and Ridgeway placed fourth in the triple jump with a season-best effort of 46-8. Garvey scores for the first time individually indoors, while Ridgeway reached the top eight for a third time in four years.

Lockwood earned a fifth place result in the shot put with a PR toss of 48-0, only half an inch off the ESU freshman record set by Glen Pinciotti in 1982. West took fifth in the 800m with a time of 2:18.26, just beating out senior teammate Lauren Toth (2:18.60) in sixth. West moved up to No. 3 in program history in the event, while Toth is now No. 5 and junior Hope Decker is No. 9 after finishing in 13th with a mark of 2:21.21.

Senior Alec Lederer, runner-up in the 5000m on Saturday, placed sixth in the 3000m this afternoon with a PR effort of 8:38.40 (No. 5 all-time). Sophomore Pat Monahan, meanwhile, matched his ESU record of 6.98 set in yesterday's preliminary round to take sixth place in Sunday's final.

Sophomore Nate Sharrah added a point for the Warrior men with an eighth place result in the two-day heptathlon (3,410 points).

The 4x400m relays concluded this year's championships. The ESU women foursome of Matthews, sophomore Leiana Dean, sophomore Shante Dorin and sophomore Arianna Ventura took sixth with a time of 3:59.87, while the men just missed out on a fourth PSAC title on the afternoon. Freshman Andrew Schumacher, freshman Anthony Del Popolo, Garvey and sophomore Akeim Thomas ended up in second place after completing the race in 3:19.51, only 0.46 back of first-place Slippery Rock. The time ranks seventh in ESU history.

The Warrior men continue their streak of having at least one PSAC champion in every season since the conference began competing indoors in 2002. The ESU women have had at least one champion in seven of the past eight seasons.

Four Warriors (Gaita, Morgan, Castro and Matthews) posted NCAA DII provisional marks during the indoor season. The field for this year's DII Championships, held March 10-12 in Birmingham, Ala., will be announced in the coming days.