MIAC Women's Track: Toms open 24-point lead

March 4, 2005
Led by an all-time conference best in the long jump, the St. Thomas women won five events and holds a 24-point lead over Concordia Friday at the halfway point of the 2005 MIAC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moorhead. The meet concludes Saturday with nine other events.

With 11 of 20 events already contested, St. Thomas scored 27 points with four placewinners in the long jump and has 82 points for the day-one lead. Concordia (58), St. Mary's (53), St. Ben's (51.5), Gustavus (44), Carleton (37), Macalester (29), Hamline (25), Augsburg (24), Bethel (14.5) and St. Olaf (11) round out the team scorers.

Coach Joe Sweeney's Tommies are looking to win the MIAC meet for the sixth year in a row and 18th time in the 21-year history of the competition.

Tommie junior All-American Kristal Grigsby scored 26 points Friday. She won the long jump in a meet record and all-time MIAC best of 19-0, which is the best jump in Division III this year and is an automatic NCAA qualifying mark. Grigsby, the 2004 Division III outdoor national champ in the long jump, also won the high jump (5-3 1-4) and took third in the 55 dash (7.34). She'll compete in Saturday's triple jump and 4x400 relay.

Molly Bauman won the 55 hurdles (8.63) and Brigid Power won the mile (5:12.89) to each score 10 points. Also in the long jump, Andretta Colley was second (18-5 3-4), Bauman was fourth (17-1 1-4) and Selina Dehn was fifth (16-7 1-4).

UST also took second in the distance medley relay for eight points in 12:44.45 with Ronni Hamilton, Bauman, Meghan Mayer and Power.

Other Friday scorers were Christina Chapman, third in the 400 (59.95); Dehn, tied for fifth in the high jump (4-11 1/2); Chelsea Guettinger, seventh in the 5,000 (18:44.97).

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