Women's Indoor Track & Field opens the season with second place finish at the Otterbein Early Season Showcase
By Tim Glon
ADA — The Ohio Northern women's indoor track and field team opened its 2021 season with a second place finish at the Otterbein Early Season Showcase meet on Sunday at the Clements Center.
The Polar Bears (3-1 overall) were second with 136 points. John Carroll won the meet with 241 points, Otterbein was third with 86, Wilmington was fourth with 27 and Capital was fifth with nine.
Sophomore Anna Schatzle (Brookville, Ind./Franklin County) won the pole vault, clearing a personal best 3.21 meters. Sophomore Cienna Kuhn (Elida) was third in the event with a height of 2.76 meters.
Senior Stella DeWitt (Weston/Cardinal Stritch) was second in the long jump with a leap of 5.41 meters, was second in the 200-meter dash in :28.20 and was third in the 60-meter hurdles in :09.78.
Sophomore Lexi Neff (Northfield/Walsh Jesuit) was second in the 800 in 2:29.85.
Senior Kylie Vestal (Youngstown/Austintown Fitch) and sophomore Kamryn Rhodes (West Mansfield/North Union) finished 2-3 in the 1-mile run in 5:27.66 and 5:30.20, respectively.
Northern out five of the top six places in the 3,000-meter run, led by junior Tessa Pitcovich (Stow/Stow-Munroe Falls) in second in 11:00.45 and senior Kathleen Colvin (Hilliard/Bishop Ready) in third in 11:05.18.
Freshman Hope Stanley (Geneva) was third in the 60-meter dash in :08.87.
Freshman Sydnee Perram (Port Clinton/Danbury) was third in the high jump, clearing 1.45 meters.
Junior Taylor Ellerbrock (Columbus Grove) was third in the 1,000 in 3:11.03.
The Polar Bears will return to action on Saturday when they host John Carroll and Baldwin Wallace in the annual Joe Banks Invitational.