EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. — Led by a seventh-place finishes in the heptathlon by Kristen Belko and in the pole vault by Jessica Hamrick, the Clarion University women’s track and field team had a solid Day Two at the PSAC Championships Friday at East Stroudsburg.
(Photo: Jessica Hamrick)
Belko earned her second PSAC-scoring finish in the heptathlon, she was eighth in 2013, by scoring 4,189 points. After picking up 2,603 points on the first day of the two-day event Thursday, she scored 602 points in the 800-meter run (2:37.51), 592 points in the long jump (5.12 meters) and 339 points in the javelin throw (22.67 meters, 74-feet, 4-inches) Friday. It marks the seventh time Belko, who picked up two points for the Golden Eagles, has scored at either a PSAC Outdoor or Indoor Championship event.
Hamrick, meanwhile, once again broke her own school record in the pole vault going over the bar at 11-feet, 0.75-inch to also earn a pair of points giving Clarion four points on the day, which put the Golden Eagles in 14th place.
Sophomore Tatiana Cloud also had a good Friday on the track qualifying for Saturday’s finals in the 400-meter hurdles by running the second-fastest time, 1:02.88, just missing an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark, which is 1:02.40. She was a half second behind the top qualifier, Erin Madison of Millersville, who ran a 1:02.38.
Cloud also ran the anchor leg of Clarion 4×100-meter relay, which also qualified for Saturday’s finals by finishing eighth in the preliminaries with a time of 48.95 seconds, just off the school record of 48.48 set at last year’s championship meet when the relay took fifth. Joining Cloud on the relay team Friday were Jessica Shomo, Courtney Corban and Anna Pfingstler.
Corban, meanwhile, just missed qualifying for the finals in the 400-meter dash finishing in 11th place in a time of 59.05 with the top eight qualifying for Saturday’s finals. She was just over a second out of the top eight. Pfingstler also ran the 400 taking 21st in a time of 1:02.74.
Freshman Kari Steuer just missed scoring in the shot put taking ninth with a toss of 40-feet, 6.25-inches under a foot away from eighth place.
Also, Jessica Shomo finished 13th in the long jump, and Belko failed to hit height in the high jump.
The meet concludes Saturday.
