STATEN ISLAND – The Cortland women's indoor track and field team finished in 25th place of 50 schools that scored points at the 2016 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Div. III Championships. The two-day event was held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island.

The Red Dragons finished with 12.4 team points. Ithaca won the team title with 77 points, followed by Wellesley (49) and Misericordia (47).

Four Cortland individual entries and one relay team earned All-ECAC honors with top-eight finishes at the meet. Kailyn Balzano (East Greenbush/Columbia) finished third in the 800 meters (2:15.74), and she anchored the fifth-place Distance Medley Relay (12:21.64) that also featured Kayla Blomback (Orchard Park), Dana Kupiec (Salem) and Melissa Emilio (Oneonta).

Mary Baughman (Rush/Rush-Henrietta) finished seventh in the 5,000-meter run with a time of 18:17.02. Emily Taylor (Huntington/John H. Glenn) and Jane Martinez (East Lyme, CT) were two of five pole vaulters who tied for eighth place with heights of 3.31 meters (10' 10.25").

Cortland's other results at the meet were:

Nicole Hofmann (Farmingdale), 10th, Pentathlon, 2,755 pts.
Kupiec, 10th, 400-meter dash, 58.78 and 15th, 200-meter dash, 26.27
Midge Moore (Massapequa), 10th, 200-meter dash, 25.83 and tied 19th, 60-meter dash, 8.05
Allison Schumann (North Salem), 10th, 5,000 meters, 18:24.04
4x400-meter relay (Hannah Anthes (Liverpool), Emilio, Valerie Moise (Central Islip), Jennifer Jelic (Oneonta)), 11th, 4:03.42
Kerri Culhane (Sayville), 13th, Mile, 5:14.05
Moise, 14th, 200-meter dash, 26.20
Kayla Koelbel (Bradford, PA/Kings Park (NY)) in Pentathlon - did not finish (no long jump or 800 meters) (1st in 60-meter hurdles, 9.03; tied 2nd, High Jump, 1.55 meters (5' 1"); 9th, Shot Put, 8.75 meters (28' 8"))

Cortland awaits the announcement of participants for next weekend's NCAA Div. III Championships, which will be held at Grinnell College in Iowa. The final participant list will be posted on NCAA.com Monday by 9 a.m. The top 17 women in each individual event and the top 12 in each relay (4x400 and DMR) qualify for nationals. As of Saturday night, Koelbel is Cortland's lone athlete ranking in a national qualifying spot with her 11th-place pentathlon score of 3,343 points.

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