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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER YELLOWJACKETS
Rachel Dennis
Rochester Athletics
Dennis finished second in the 10,000 meter run and Sennett Turner was fourth.

Rochester Women Locked in Battle for High Finish at Atlantic Regionals

5/18/2022 10:30:00 PM

By: Dennis O'Donnell, Director of Athletic Communications
BETHLEHEM, PA – Day two of the 2022 NCAA Atlantic Region Outdoor Track & Field Championships should be extremely interesting for the University of Rochester. There are 54 collegiate institutions on the campus of Moravian College here. Exactly half the field has scored at least one point.
 
Through one day of competition, it's a terrific battle for second place between five schools. SUNY Geneseo leads everyone with 59 points. The next five positions are separated by a total of four points. St. Lawrence is second with 27. Rochester has 26. Ithaca and Carnegie Mellon are tied for fourth with 24, and SUNY Brockport is sixth with 23.
 
Rochester had a total of four finishers in the top four, scattered over one relay, one field event, and the longest of the distance races. UR put team points on the board in four events and competed in a total of eight events.
 
The 4x400 meter relay team broke its own school record – again. This time, the Yellowjackets ran a 3:44.63, breaking their previous mark by more than half of a second (3:45.24). The runners were Madeline O'Connell, Eileen Bequette, Kristin Hardy, and Susan Bansbach. They finished second to Geneseo, which set a meet record with a time of 3:42.19.
 
UR had two people in the top four of the 10,000 meter run. There were 23 runners overall. Rachel Dennis was second (38:06.39) and Sennett Turner was fourth (38:49.19). The other Rochester distance runners were Ella Wise Bellin (39:28.16, 11th place), Icel Sukovaty (39:39.73, 12th place), and Alicia Lawson (39:55.54, 15th place). Katherine Benninger was 14th in the 3,000 meter steeplechase (12:05.66).
 
In the field events, Ashley Heffernan was fourth in the pole vault (3.61 m.). She also ran a :14.87 in the 100 meter high hurdles to qualify for the Thursday finals. Alyssa Hoogs was 10th in the triple jump (10.99 m.) and Cora Rose was 16th (10.60 m.). Rose threw the discus a distance of 33.42 m. to finish 32nd. Gillian Reeder threw the discus 37.08 m. to finish 17th. Bequette finished 15th in the javelin throw (33.94 m.).
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