Thirteen personal bests not enough for women at MAC championships

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The Central Michigan women’s track and field team came out of Bowling Green, Ohio, this weekend with 13 personal bests, but no Mid-American Conference championships.

“They faced a lot of adversity after losing a top scoring athlete in Raeanne Lohner (ankle),” said track and field director Willie Randolph. “They showed great things for the future.”

Overall, CMU finished seventh overall with 55.50 points. Eastern Michigan won the MAC championships as Western Michigan finished second.

Senior Whitney Johnson finished fourth in the weight toss with a throw of 57 feet, 10 inches. Senior Mykal Imbrock finished 12th with a throw of 52 feet, 8 inches, a personal best for her.

Senior Shanaye Carr finished eighth in the long jump with a jump of 18 feet, 10 inches, while sophomore Tamica Harbour placed 15th with a jump of 17 feet, 10 3/4 inches, achieving her best jump in her career.

Senior Danielle Dakroub had the seventh best time in the 5,000-meter dash, recording a time of 17:10.92. Junior Holly Anderson came in ninth (17:14.84) which is her career best. Senior Raeanne Lohner came in 13th with a time of 17:34.53. Lohner is awaiting word from a doctor on the extent of an ankle injury she suffered during the meet.

“She is definitely a big part of our team and we’ll need her for outdoor,” Dakroub said. “The other distance runners and myself need to step up.”

In the preliminaries, senior Shanaye Carr qualified first in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.61 tying her personal best, senior Brittnee Shreve qualified seventh with a time of 8.72.

Senior Jordan Dunn qualified third with a time of 7.50 in the 60-meter dash, another personal best. Junior Kirlene Roberts just missed qualifying by four one-thousandths of a second with a time of 7.585.

Junior Christina Farrow qualified seventh in the 800-meter at 2:14.55, senior Alexandria Sissions qualified ninth in 2:15.54, another personal best for the team.

“We started off a little slow,” Randolph said. “Day 1 we had a lot of people get personal bests, but we had to be aggressive and we didn’t do that.”

Freshman high jumpers Samantha Stein placed fourth with a jump of five and half inches, while Megan Heffner came in sixth.

In the distance events, junior Maddie Ribbant added another personal best with a time of 4:58.90 good for seventh place in the mile.

Dakroub finished fourth and a personal best in the 3000-meter in 9:45.42, Anderson had another personal best of 10:08.03 coming in 12th.

“It was a good start to outdoor, but overall it was an OK weekend,” Dakroub said. “I’ll work on maintaining consistency and staying relaxed for outdoor.”

Christina Farrow came in fifth in the 800-meter and Sissions recorded another personal best with a time finishing ninth with 2:15.38.

Carr won the 60-meter hurdles with a personal best time of 8.57, Shreve came in fourth earning five more points with a time of 8.65.

“I wasn’t happy with my long jump, but I was really happy about the hurdles and I was able to repeat and get 10 points for my team,” Carr said. “Everybody gave it all they had on the second day.”

Dunn finished third in the 60-meter dash with yet another personal best of 7.54 and picking up six points.

In the final event, the women in the 4×400-meter relay finished eighth with a time of 3:52.07 ending the meet for the women.

“We came out on Day 2 fighting and we finished off strong,” Randolph said. “We got a lot of respect but we need to come out the gates stronger.

“We don’t have time to be down, we have to start getting ready for the outdoor season, which is right around the corner.”