At Coast Guard Spring Invite, Amanda Quinones sets record in 3,000 SC
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Junior Amber Petrizzo (Plainville) won the 100 and 200 meter
dashes and ran the anchor on the winning 4x100 meter relay for the Eastern Connecticut State University women's track and field team Saturday at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Spring Invitational.
Above: Amber Petrizzo
As a team, Eastern accumulated 92.2 points to finish in fifth place, less than ten points behind winner University of New Haven in the 11-team field.
Sophomore Amanda Quinones (Trumbull) set a program record in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, placing fifth in a time of 12:44.45 to break the former record (by 90 second), which was set exactly one year ago.
Freshman Cora Gingras (East Hampton) competed in four events, qualifying for New England Division III post-season competition in the high jump (4-11), long jump (15-11 ¾) and triple jump (33-3).. She was second in the long jump, fifth in the high jump and eighth in the triple jump.
At left: Cora Gingras
A total of 12 different individuals contributed points and the Warriors won four individual events and one relay.
In addition to Petrizzo, sophomore Kristianna Ibsen (Shelton) bested the field in the javelin, senior Erika Barber (Portland) won the pole vault (9-9), and the 4x100 relay won its event. Petrizzo was first among 33 in the 200 (26.73), and first in a field of 24 when she qualified for next month's ECAC Division III Championship in the 400 (59.89). Ibsen won the javelin for the second time in as many meets with a toss of 122-4 in a field of 18, Barber won her specialty for the 11th time in her outdoor career by pacing 13 other competitors, and the 4x100 relay was clocked in a winning time of 51.66 to pace six other competing teams. Runners on the relay were junior Roxanne Atterbury (Manchester), senior Monica Mills (East Hartford), freshman Christine Charpentier (Masuk) and Petrizzo.
Petrizzo's first-place finishes netted her 20 points, and Gingras added 17 points in four events with Ibsen totaling 16 points. Ibsen added four points with a fifth-place finish in the shot put and two with a seventh-place finish in the discus to go along with ten points as the javelin winner.
Also adding points were senior Sandra Brautigam (Scotland) in the 100 hurdles, Atterbury in the 200, Mills in the 400 hurdles, sophomore Maggie Gibeault (Brooklyn) in the pole vault, and the 4x400 meter relay. Brautigam added six points (third in the 100 hurdles), Atterbury three (sixth in the 200), Mills one (eighth in the 400 hurdles) and Gibeault 2 tenths of a point (tied for eighth in the pole vault). The 4x400 relay of Atterbury, Mills, Charpentier and Petrizzo contributed five points with a fifth-place finish.
Eastern hosts its own invitational Friday at 4 p.m.
