NORTHAMPTON, MASS. – Cortland earned four top-seven finishes to tie for 21st in the final team standings at the ECAC Div. III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by Smith College. The Red Dragons scored 15 points as one of 43 schools that recorded points at the meet. Ithaca won with 64.5 points, followed by The College of New Jersey with 64 and Bates with 50.

The 4x800-meter relay team of freshman Alexis Fairbanks (Apalachin/Owego Free Academy), junior Barbara Green (Levittown/Division Avenue), junior Stephanie McGrath (Camillus/West Genesee) and freshman Jordyn Naylon (Fairport) finished third in 9:37.94.

Also earning All-ECAC honors with top-eight finishes were freshman Nikki Schafer (Troy/Columbia) with a fifth-place effort in the pentathlon (2,976 points), junior Erin Keaveney (West Hempstead/Kellenberg Memorial) with a sixth-place time of 10:37.93 in the 3,000 meters and sophomore Alyson Dalton (Sherrill/Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) with a seventh-place finish in the 5,000 meters (17:58.44).

Three other Red Dragons turned in top-15 performances. Sophomore Brenna Filipello (Delmar/Bethlehem) was ninth in the pentathlon (2,627 points), freshman Christi Nassauer (Mount Sinai) tied for 11th in the pole vault (3.20 meters – 10' 6”) and Fairbanks was 14th in the 800 meters (2:20.36).

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