Full Results

COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - The LVC indoor track & field teams opened the 2009-10 season with some strong performances Saturday at the Ursinus College Winter Invitational.

Despite fielding short-handed teams, the men placed seventh out of 18 (and were fifth among Division III competition), while the women were 11th of 18 and seventh among D-III teams.

Among the highlights for the Dutchmen:

Jerome Duncan highlighted the meet for the men as he became LVC's second-fastest indoor 200-meter sprinter, placing third in that event (and tops among D-III runners) with a personal-best 23.34. Fellow sprinter Josh Light placed eighth in the 55, running a 6.77. Meanwhile, the 4x200 relay of Light, Justin Lee, Duncan, and Tyler Ciserik took fourth in 1:35.57, the sixth-fastest in LVC history.

Andrew Scott tied for second place in the shot put with a 44-11 3/4" toss, while Lee jumped 40-6 1/4" in the triple jump for sixth. Erik Brandt was right behind him in eighth place with a 39-8" debut.

For the women's team, freshman Alisha Farrell had a fantastic debut as she finished with LVC top-10s in the high jump (11th overall, 4-8"), pole vault (2nd, 9-6"), and 400-meter dash (27th, 1:05.72), and fellow freshman Meggy McLean was 16thin the 55-meter hurdles in 9.98.

Ashley Weaver took second in the pole vault by clearing 9-6" as LVC dominated the event with three in the top five along with Farrell's vault and Tracy Fortugno's fifth-place 9-foot mark.

Allix Sanders broke into the LVC top-10 list in the 55-meter dash with a 7.79, placing 11th in the event and putting her in a tie for seventh on the LVC list with the personal-best.

The women's 4x200 relay of Nicole Barra, Katie Evison, McLean, and Sanders was 10th in 1:53.81, the fastest 4x200 for LVC since 2000 and just nine-hundredths off the school record pace.

LVC is off for the holidays before competing in the Susquehanna Invitational on Jan. 23.