Women's Indoor Track & Field finishes 4th at OAC Elite Meet
By Tim Glon
The Ohio Northern women's indoor track and field team finished fourth of 10 teams at the OAC Elite Meet on Saturday at Otterbein and Capital.
The Polar Bears (11-8 overall) finished with 73 points.
Junior Kayla Silva (Westerville/South) and senior Stella DeWitt (Weston/Cardinal Stritch) each placed in three events to lead ONU.
Silva was second in the 200-meter dash in :26.56, was third in the 60 meters in 7.94 seconds and was fifth in the long jump at 5.32 meters.
Her 60-meter time was was just .02 of a second off of her school record :07.92 set in 2019.
DeWitt was second in the triple jump with a leap of 10.68 meters, was third in the long jump with a jump of 5.49 meters and was fourth in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.42 seconds.
Sophomore Lexi Neff (Northfield/Walsh Jesuit) was third in the 1,000 run in 3:12.93.
Four Polar Bears placed in the top eight in the 5,000-meter run, led by junior Rue Whitmore (Mason) in fourth in 18:28.89. Senior Kathleen Colvin (Hilliard/Bishop Ready) was sixth in 18:34.01, junior Tessa Pitcovich (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) was seventh in 18:39.01 and freshman Megan Vapenik (Strongsville) was eighth in 19:30.85.
Sophomore Anna Schatzle (Brookville, Ind./Franklin County) was fourth in the pole vault by clearing 3.25 meters, while sophomore Cienna Kuhn (Elida) was seventh in the event at 3.05 meters.
Freshman Oleysa Mertz (Johnstown) was seventh in the mile run in 5:37.84 and freshman Sydnee Perram (Port Clinton/Danbury) was seventh in the high jump by clearing 1.47 meters.
Junior Megan Wright (Eaton/Twin Valley South) finished eighth in the 3,000 in 10:34.82.
No. 17 Mount Union won the meet with 204 points, No. 3-ranked John Carroll finished second with 150 points, Otterbein was third with 100 points, No. 23 Marietta finished fifth with 45 points, No. 9 Baldwin Wallace was sixth with 41 points, Heidelberg was seventh with 32 points, Wilmington was eighth with 23 points, Muskingumw as ninth with 10 points and Capital was tenth with 2 points.
The majority of the meet was held at Otterbein, with throws and the pole vault events contested at Capital.
The Polar Bears will return to action next Sunday at a tri-meet at Capital with Wilmington.