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WASHINGTON, Pa. (April 5) – The Waynesburg University women's track & field team recorded an impressive sixth-place finish and set four school records on Saturday at the 16-team Washington & Jefferson College Invitational.

Sophomore April Loving (East McKeesport, Pa./East Allegheny) set school records in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes and reached an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)-qualifying mark in the 100 meters at the W&J Invitational. She opened the afternoon with a time of 13.32 seconds and second-place finish in the 100-meter preliminaries, best in her heat. In the finals, Loving crossed the finish line in a school record 12.94 seconds to finish in second place.

Later in the day, the East Allegheny graduate broke her own school record in the 200-meter dash. Loving completed the race in 27.83 seconds, over six-hundredths of a second faster than her previous record set last weekend.

Junior Ashley Dodd (Upper St. Clair, Pa./Upper St. Clair) and freshman Elisha Jones (Russell, Pa./Eisenhower) each captured individual titles in the pole vault and javelin, respectively, for the second-straight week.

Dodd, who qualified for the ECAC Championships last week, earned the pole vault title with a clearance of 11.48 feet (3.50 meters).

Jones captured the title in the javelin with a throw of 122.57 feet (37.36 meters), winning the event by over 22 feet (six-plus meters).She also posted a 10th-place overall finish in the discus with a season-best heave of 102.99 feet (31.39 meters).

Junior Becca Geisel (Uniontown, Pa./Uniontown) set the school record in the triple jump with a leap of 33.50 feet (10.21 meters) and finished in sixth place in a field of 14 competitors.

Freshman Michaeline Macosko (Jefferson Hills, Pa./Thomas Jefferson) broke her own school record in the 400-meter hurdles on Saturday. Macosko finished in fifth place with a record-setting time of 1 minute 12.14 seconds, cutting two seconds off her previous school-best mark set last week.

Sophomore Melissa Cox (Waynesburg, Pa./Jefferson-Morgan) also posted a top-five finish for the Yellow Jackets in the 800-meter run. Cox rounded the track in 2:26.23 to finish the 36-runner race in fifth place. Her time at the W&J Invitational was over two seconds faster than her time in last week's outdoor opener.

In addition to Jones winning the javelin, Waynesburg featured two other top-10 throwers in the event. Junior Amanda Staudt (Cochranton, Pa./Cochranton) and Becki Friedline (Latrobe, Pa./Greater Latrobe) finished in seventh and eighth, respectively, in the event. Staudt hurled the javelin a distance of 97.77 feet (29.80 meters), while Friedline was close behind at 97.74 feet (29.79 meters).

The Yellow Jackets totaled 46 points at the event hosted at Cameron Stadium. Allegheny College captured the team title with 114 points, while Wheeling Jesuit University (105) edged host W&J (103) for second place.

Waynesburg returns to action on Wednesday, April 9, at the Geneva College Quadrangular, which is scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m. in Beaver Falls, Pa.