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Track Keeps Pace at Harvard Invite

Fellow freshman Lauren Walker took fifth in 10:37.91, and Harvard did not enter any competitors in the 5,000-meter run.

The Crimson turned in some of its strongest performances off the track. Sophomore Sandra Stankovic won the high jump, clearing 1.65 meters, while freshman Jitka Vinduskova won the shotput with a 11.49-meter toss.

The pole vault was another strength for Harvard, which placed four women in the top eight. Freshman Erin Blackstock vaulted 3.35 meters to finish second, while junior Katherine Nishimura, freshman Clara Blattler and sophomore Michelle Behrens finished fifth, sixth and eighth, respectively.

Sophomore Allyson Pritchett finished fourth in the long jump with a leap of 5.27 meters, and Vinduskova made 5.2 meters for seventh. The Crimson finished at the front of the pack in the 60-meter hurdles, as junior Mary Serdakowski and senior Eleanor Thompson finished second and fourth with respective times of 9.18 and 9.3 seconds.

Freshman Julia Rozier finished the 800-meter run in 2:18.76, five seconds off the lead. Senior Vicky Henderson finished seventh in the 400-meter dash finals in 1:00.02, and Freshman Rikka Strong took ninth in the mile in 5:32.23. Freshman Chidimma Kalu led the Crimson in the 60-meter dash, finishing third in the preliminaries in 7.86 seconds before picking up fourth in the finals in 7.83 seconds. Freshman Owanaemi Briggs, who finished 12th in the 60-meter dash preliminaries, picked up an eighth-place finish in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.61 seconds.

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