The Butler high School Girl’s track & field team opened the season Saturday with a dominating performance at the Knoch Relays. The girls team won the meet with 158 points. Canon McMillian was 2nd with 97. The girls won 10 of the 17 events in the unique relay format. Meet records were set by the 800 Meter Relay team of Maddie Tonini, Maggie Hohn, Shana Hoy and Alexis Leech, the Sprint Medley Relay of Maddie Glew, Shana Hoy, Alexis Leech and Liz Simms and the 1600 Meter relay team of Maddie Tonini, Shana Hoy, Maegan Emanuel, Alexis Leech.
The Slippery Rock University women’s track and field team recorded 14 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference qualifying marks, one NCAA provisional mark and seven event wins at the Dave Labor Invite Saturday at the Bill Lennox Track. Frigid temperatures and gusty winds all day made it difficult to put up impressive times in many of the running events. The Rock were paced by Jasmine Bailey and Kennedy Evans with two wins each. They also joined together with Erica Hans and Emily Horstman in a winning effort in the 4×100-meter relay.
Bailey won the 100-meter dash in 12.33 seconds and took the 200-meter dash in 25.22 seconds. Butler graduate Horstman also hit the PSAC mark in the 200m with a third place finish in 25.88 seconds.
Evans, another Butler graduate, ran a personal best in the 100-meter hurdles to win in 14.42 seconds and cruised to a win in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:02.28, an NCAA provisional mark.
The Slippery Rock University baseball team increased its winning streak to 10 games with a doubleheader sweep of Pitt-Johnstown Saturday afternoon at Point Stadium in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Slippery Rock produced a season-high run total in its 17-10 victory in game one before cruising to the sweep with a 12-6 win in game two.
The victories improve The Rock’s record to 14-5 overall and 6-0 in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference competition. With 28 games remaining in the regular season, Slippery Rock has already eclipsed its win total from a season ago.