West Long Branch, N.J (May 7, 2011)-The Mount St. Mary's women's track and field team is tied for fourth while the men's team is in sixth place after the first day of the Northeast Conference Track and Field Championships hosted by Monmouth University.

Jessica Huber finished in fourth and Heather Gula in seventh to score points in the pole vault for the Mountaineers.  Teika Robinson was fourth in the long jump (5.53m) with Morgan Ostasewski finishing third in the discus (40.24m).  Hanna Dubois was seventh in the javelin as well for the Mountaineers.

Twin sisters Ashlyn and Ashley DeCruise qualified for the finals in both the 100m and 200m dash.  Ashlyn had times of 11.99 seconds in the 100m and 24.25 seconds in the 200m.  Ashlyn had marks of 12.31 seconds in the 100m and 24.77 in the 200m.

Lily Otu (56.13) and Desi Scott (56.59) earned spots in the finals in the 400m dash.  Megan Kinsella earned a spot in the finals in the 1500m with a time of 4:49.02. 

For the men, Dylan Bernard placed fourth in the 10,000m run at 31:52.71 with Billy Lawrence was seventh in the high jump (1.92m).  Quinton Huguley was seventh in the long jump (6.93m) while Alan Coulson was fifth in the discus (43.90m).

Tom FitzSimons placed fourth and Charles Haberkorn eighth in the javelin throw.

Tyler Swope earned a spot in the finals in the 100m dash with his time of 11.26 seconds while Gigi Gibilisco qualified for the finals in the 800m with his mark of 1:55.85.  FitzSimons also qualified for the finals in the 110m hurdles (15.22).

The meet concludes tomorrow.