The Pioneer Trail: Friday, Feb. 13, 2015
Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field at Molloy Invitational - 4 p.m.The LIU Post men's and women's indoor track and field teams have one last tune-up meet before the East Coast Conference championships next weekend. This meet will see them head out to St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington for the Molloy Invitational at 4 p.m.
The Pioneers earned 14th and 13th-place finishes, respectively, at the Ramapo Indoor Select last Saturday (Feb. 7) in a meet held at The Armory. The green and gold took top billing in two events, and earned a third-place finish in one field event at the meet.
Red-shirt sophomore
Mike Scott (Fultonville, N.Y.) secured a first-place finish in the men's mile run, clocking an impressive time of 4:22.11 to beat Rowan's Pat McCurry by six-tenths of a second. LIU Post grabbed the top spot on the podium in the women's 4x400-meter relay. Freshmen
Lauren Hoffman (Melville, N.Y.) and
Talya Williams (Schenectady, N.Y.), junior
Elizabeth Stirling (Wantagh, N.Y.) and graduate student
Robin Lynn (Glen Gardener, N.J.) combined for a winning time of 12:27.47 in the race, besting second-place Wheaton (Mass.) by almost a full two seconds. Additionally, freshman
Danae Glover (North Babylon, N.Y.) sported a third-place finish in the women's triple jump (11.04).