Seniors Sam Beckerleg and Liz Ross set school records with all-conference finishes on Saturday to highlight the first day of competition for the Shippensburg University women's indoor track & field team at the 2015 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships being contested at Edinboro University's Zafirovski Dome.
 
Beckerleg scored 3,356 points in the pentathlon – a third-place finish that breaks Rebekah Newhart's 2010 record by 156 points. She paced all competitors in the shot put, throwing 37 feet, 6 ¾ inches, ran a PR in the 60-meter hurdles of 9.63 seconds, cleared a new height of 5 feet, 3 ¾ inches in the high jump, landed a solid long jump of 16 feet, 9 ¾ inches and ran a solid indoor 800 meters of 2:37.92 for her nearly 200-point personal best.
 
Ross improved upon her school-record weight throw of last weekend by more than two feet, achieving the first 17-meter mark of her career on her last throw of the competition. It resulted in a second-place mark of 56 feet, 4 ¾ inches – signifying her first PSAC scoring effort in the weight throw.
 
Also in the field, sophomore Sarah Hunt finished second in the long jump, scoring for the first time in the event with a top mark of 18 feet, 3 inches. Freshman Kali Hepner achieved a new personal-best clearance in the pole vault, placing sixth after getting over the bar at 11 feet, 2 ¼ inches on her second attempt.
 
Victorious on Saturday was the 4x800-meter relay team of sophomore Erika Huffman, sophomore Laura Kibathi, senior April Schlusser and redshirt-freshman Kiana Tucker. The quartet ran 9:36.56 – posting a nine-second win over Edinboro.
 
Huffman and Kibathi both ran on SU's relay last season that placed sixth in 9:45.77 – that time was just .02 seconds slower than second-place Edinboro's time on Saturday.
 
Sophomore Casey Norton, who placed fourth in the 3K last year, earned an All-PSAC finish in the 5K this year by running 17:39.31. It is an eight-second indoor personal best for Norton in just her second indoor 5K race, the first of which was run two weeks ago in Boston.
 
A youth-laced distance medley relay of freshman Caity Reese, freshman Jill Bertino, junior Jessica Collins and freshman Hannah Fulton contributed four team points with a fifth-place time of 12:41.51.
 
Among qualifiers, senior Bri Fells and junior Megan Lundy posted the Top 2 seeds for the 400-meter finals. Fells and freshman Lindsay Sheehan qualified for the 200-meter finals, while redshirt-freshman Danielle Sciremammano earned the fifth position for the 60-meter hurdles finals with a PR of 9.08 seconds.
 
Shippensburg enters the second and final day of competition trailing first-place Slippery Rock by four points. Sunday's action begins at 11 a.m. with the weight throw.
 
60 (prelims)
Ashley Nicola 7.97
 
200 (prelims)
Bri Fells 25.78q [5th]
Lindsay Sheehan 25.82q [6th]
Danesha Butler 26.18
 
400 (prelims)
Bri Fells 57.26q [1st]
Megan Lundy 58.07q [2nd]
Jill Bertino 1:01.45
 
60H (prelims)
Danielle Sciremammano 9.08q [5th]
Kayla Lawson 9.38
Danesha Butler 9.43
 
5K
3. Casey Norton 17:39.31
Patty Reis 18:01.28
Alexandria Hamill 18:39.77
Bryanna Dissinger 18:44.02
 
4x800
1. Erika Huffman, Laura Kibathi, April Schlusser, Kiana Tucker 9:36.56
 
DMR
5. Caity Reese, Jill Bertino, Jessica Collins, Hannah Fulton 12:41.51
 
Pole Vault
6. Kali Hepner 11' 2 ¼" (3.41m)
Jessica Gill 10' 2 ½" (3.11m)
 
Long Jump
2. Sarah Hunt 18' 3" (5.56m)
Ashley Nicola 16' 8" (5.08m)
Danielle Sciremammano 16' 4 ½" (4.99m)
Alyssa Sitch 15' 11 ½" (4.86m)
 
Weight Throw
2. Liz Ross 56' 4 ¾" (17.19m)
Sam Nelson 46' 8" (14.22m)
Ava Bonetti 45' 4 ½" (13.83m)
Tamara Ovejera 44' 5 ½" (13.55m)
Brianna Davis 43' 10" (13.36m)
Sabrina Johnson 41' 2 ½" (12.56m)
Erin Doherty 37' 9 ½" (11.52m)
 
Pentathlon
3. Sam Beckerleg 3356
Teri Stoner 2587