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Kaylyn West, Aspen Gaita and Marissa Flim

ESU Women Place Third at 2018 PSAC Indoor Championships, Earn Program’s Best Finish Since 2014

2/25/2018 12:00:00 AM

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EDINBORO, Pa. – Junior Aspen Gaita, junior Marissa Flim and senior Kaylyn West posted runner-up performances on Sunday, and the 4x400m relay placed third in the last race of the afternoon to vault the East Stroudsburg University women up to third in the team standings at this year's PSAC Indoor Track & Field Championships.

The Warriors ended the two-day meet with 66 points. They moved ahead of Edinboro (61) and Seton Hill (60) after sophomore Sarah Klag, Gaita, sophomore Allyson Stitzer and junior Shante Dorin registered a season-best time of 3:57.01 in the 4x400m. ESU's third-place finish is the program's best since the 2014 team placed second overall.

ESU totaled eight top-five efforts over the weekend, including six on the final day of competition, and the Warriors had nine overall scoring performances on Sunday.

Gaita was the first runner-up finisher for ESU, as she took second in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.64. That mark is two-hundredths off her season-best of 8.62 which she registered in the preliminary round. That time is currently ranked tied for 13th in all of Division II. Shippensburg's Danielle Sciremammano prevented Gaita from defending her 2017 PSAC title in the event, as she crossed the line in a PSAC-record time of 8.47 which ranks fifth nationally.

Flim entered the afternoon as the No. 3 qualifier in the 60m dash, and she moved up to second in the final after completing the sprint race in 7.71. That put her 0.02 ahead of Millersville's Courtney Ingold in third place and just 0.06 back of Seton Hill's Gabrielle Ravotto in first. Flim moves back into the top eight after placing sixth in the 60m as a freshman in 2016.

Gaita and Flim also both posted PR's while scoring in the 200m final. Gaita is now No. 3 in ESU history in the event after recording a fourth-place time of 25.33, while Flim's sixth-place effort of 25.56 ranks seventh in the ESU record books.

A five-time individual PSAC scorer in her collegiate career heading into the weekend, West registered her best-ever finish after taking the second in the 800m. Her time of 2:16.55 was a new PR and ranks No. 2 in program history, behind only Jan Blake's mark of 2:14.28 which was established 22 years ago in 1996. West's previous best individual finish was fourth in the 2017 and 2016 outdoor steeplechase finals.

ESU's six points in the field events came from junior Carly Gregas and junior Victoria Matthews in the high jump. Gregas, Matthews and sophomore Sarah Smith all had top clearances of 5-3 3/4, but Gregas ended up tied for third in the competition due to needing fewer tries to complete her jumps. Matthews took eighth place, while Smith followed just outside of the scoring places in ninth.

Senior Samantha Young earned the other three points for the Warriors in the mile, as she placed sixth in the first contested final of the afternoon with a time of 5:13.98.

Shippensburg repeated as team champions with a final total of 106 points, while Slippery Rock finished as the runner-up with 77 points.

Gaita (pentathlon, 60m hurdles, long jump) and the DMR team of Young, Klag, Dorin and West have reached DII provisional standards, with NCAA Championship entries to be announced in the coming days. This year's national meet takes place in Pittsburg, KS, on March 9-10. ESU's outdoor season, meanwhile, is set to begin on March 15-17 at Division I Charlotte. 
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