LEWISTON, Maine – The University of Southern Maine women's track & field program won seven events on Saturday at the Bates Invitational to finish second in the team standings with 165 points. Senior Janiah Young (Perkinsville, Vt./Windsor), senior Alexis Karantza (Westbrook, Maine), senior Lucy Depolito (North Andover, Mass.) and the Huskies' distance medley relay team won events on the track. Sophomore Khalysa Hammith (Windham, Maine), senior Riley Reitchel (Palermo, Maine/Erskine Academy) and senior Jaigan Boudreau (Dayton, Maine/Thornton Academy) claimed field event titles.
 
Young placed first in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.94 seconds. Karantza (won the 600 meters with a time of 1:41.40. Depolito won the 5000 meters with a time of 20:00.34. The Huskies distance medley relay team of freshman Madi Sainis (Pierrefords, Quebec), sophomore Mya Austin (Sumner, Maine/Buckfield), senior AnnMarie Limberger (Vassalboro, Maine/Waterville) and junior Gwen Catalano (Buxton, Maine/Bonny Eagle) won their event with a time of 13:26.91.
 
Hammith won the long jump with a leap of 5.33m. Reitchel (Palermo, Maine/Erskine Academy) cleared 3.15m in the pole vault to win the event. Boudreau had the best performance in the shot put with a throw of 11.95m.
 
Track Event Highlights:

• Hammith placed second in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.96 seconds in the finals after running the top prelim time of 7.95 seconds.
• Sophomore Saya Breiting-Brown (Portland, Maine/Deering) placed second in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.58 seconds. She also placed sixth in the 200 meters with a time of 28.93 seconds.
• Freshman Addy Burkhardt (Lisbon Falls, Maine) finished second in the 600 meters with a time of 1:45.84.
• Sainis ran a personal-best time of 2:21.35 in the 800 meters and now ranks 10th in program history.
• Junior Julia Szewc (Hermon, Maine) placed second in the 5000 meters at 20:49.19. Freshman Tanuja Khedkar (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) placed third with a time of 22:45.89.
• Freshman Florence Guimont (Boisbriand, Quebec/Laval Senior) placed third in the mile with a time of 5:51.67.
• Senior Anabel Melanson (West Warren, Mass./Quaboag) placed fourth in the 600 meters with a time of 1:51.74.
• Senior Whitney Davenport (Westbrook, Maine) placed fourth in the 1000 meters with a personal-best time of 3:25.13.
• Austin placed fifth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.35 seconds in the finals.
• Junior Allie Kimball (Winslow, Maine) placed fifth in the 200 meters with a time of 28.29 seconds and was sixth in the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.38 seconds in the finals. Her prelim time of 8.33 seconds is a personal-best.
• Freshman Sienna Geretz (Cushing, Maine/Oceanside) placed eighth in the 200 meters with a personal-best time of 29.23 seconds.
• Freshman Ashley Arsenault (Winthrop, Maine) finished ninth in the 200 meters with a personal-best time of 29.72 seconds.

 
Field Event Highlights:

• Freshman Emma O'Brien (Aurora, Colo./Eaglecrest) was second in the pole vault with a mark of 3.00m.
• Freshman Biel Deng (Lewiston, Maine) placed fifth in the high jump at 1.38m. Arsenault also cleared 1.38m and placed sixth.
• Freshman Ava Gerrity (Windham, Maine) placed eighth in the triple jump (10.06m) and 10th in the long jump (4.67m).
• Senior Lizzie Asman (Marlborough, Mass./Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter) placed eighth in the weight throw with a season-best mark of 11.75m
• Freshman Nadia Sylla (Burlington, Vt.)  placed eighth in the shot put with a throw of 10.19m. She also set a personal-best in the weight throw with a mark of 9.88m to place 17th.
• Freshman Elara Kluck (Raymond, Maine/ Gray-New Gloucester) set personal-bests in the weight throw (11.62m) and shot put (9.48m) to place ninth and 13th.

Team Scores

1	Bates	320.5
2	Southern Maine	165
3	St. Joseph's (Me.)	55
4	Thomas College	49
5	Maine-Farmington	43
6	Husson	30.5
7	Maine-Fort Kent	14
8	Keene State	10
9	Bowdoin	9
10	Maine	6

 
Up Next:
The Huskies are off next weekend and will return to action on Friday, January 30 with a select group competing at John Thomas Terrier Classic at Boston University. The rest of the team will then be competing at Husky Invitational in Gorham on Saturday, January 31.