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Harper Women Finish in Top 10 at Nationals


UTICA, N.Y. – The Harper College women's track and field team took 10th place with a team total of 27 points at the 2014 DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships, hosted by Mohawk Valley Community College. SUNY Delhi (136 points) captured the team title by a meager half point over Suffolk Community College (135.5 points), followed by third place Mohawk Valley Community College with 108.5 points.

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Several Harper athletes performed well and contributed to the point total over the final two days of competition. Sprinter Stephanie Hurwitz (Rolling Meadows, Ill./Fremd) earned points in her solo events, taking sixth place in both the 100m and 200m. Hurwitz ran a PR time of 12.87 seconds in the 100m final and PR'ed in the 200m final with a time of 26.69 seconds.

Marisa Andreuccetti (Elk Grove Village, Ill./Conant) earned a sixth place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:35.27. In the distance events, freshman Mary Piltaver (/Conant) scored points for the team on Friday with a sixth place finish in the 10k, crossing the finish line in 43:54.19. Teammate Lori Delfin (/Wheeling) took ninth place in 46:07.47. On Saturday, Piltaver finished eighth in the 5k in a time of 21:08.80.

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The 4x100m relay team of Hurwitz, Taylor LoCoco (/Prairie Ridge), Lara Sladek (/St. Viator) and Gabrielle Brosnan (Mount Prospect, Ill./Christian Liberty) finished in 52.90 seconds in the final to take seventh place. The 4x400m squad of Hurwitz, LoCoco, Brosnan and Andreuccetti finished in 4:29.37 for eighth place.

In the field events, Sladek and Amanda Hagen (/Hoffman Estates) netted points for the Hawks. Sladek placed eighth in the shot put with a throw of 9.82m while Hagen took fifth in the nation in the javelin throw with a PR toss of 27.44m.


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