5/6/2011 8:12:03 PM / Women's Track & Field
Samatha Spindel No. 1 In Discus Throw at the Northeast-10 Championship
LOWELL, Mass. – Samantha Spindel (Brewster, N.Y) of the Southern Connecticut State University women's outdoor track team claimed the top spot in the discus throw with a distance of 40.29 meters on day one at the Northeast-10 Conference Championship held today on the UMass-Lowell Campus.
In the long jump, Courtni Walker (Uniondale, N.Y.) finished two-hundredths of a meter off the lead in second with a leap of 5.54 meters.
The freshman duo of Ourania Bletsas (Easton, Conn.) and Aubrey Dowding (Warwick, R.I.) claimed third and fourth honors in the javelin throw with tosses of 35.75 and 35.57 meters.
The Owls will be back in action tomorrow for day two of the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.