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1st of 8 at NCAC Relays
Jan. 30, 2010
![[ Lainey Kekic ]](../images/kekic4.jpg)
Junior Lainey Kekic (Canfield/Western Reserve) helped Ohio Wesleyan to 3 first-place finishes as the Bishops successfully defended their North Coast Athletic Conference Relays championship with a win in the annual meet on Saturday in Granville.
Ohio Wesleyan won the meet with 107 points to 69 for runner-up Oberlin. Wittenberg and Kenyon tied for third place with 54 1/2 points, followed by Allegheny (48), Wooster (44), Denison (32), and Earlham (18). The meet consists of relays, running events and field events, with the running events and field events scored by ranking the combined efforts of each school's top 2 participants.
The NCAC Relays title was the fourth in a row for the Bishops, who also won in 2004 before finishing second in 2005 and 2006.
Kekic combined with freshman Nicole Lourette (Mechanicsville, Md./Chopticon) to win the triple jump relay with a total of 63-10 1/4, teamed with freshman Emily Amburgey (Germantown/Preble Shawnee) to tie for first place in the high jump relay with a total of 9-10, and combined with freshman Stephanie Mitchell (Wareham, Mass.), freshman Calina Hilyard (Columbus/Upper Arlington), and junior Lindsay Dunbar (Marysville) to win the 800-meter relay in 1:50.07. Kekic and Amburgey also finished second in the long jump relay, while Kekic, Hilyard, senior Kara Reiter (Chardon), and senior Sarah Shinn (Edinboro, Pa./General McLane) finished second in the 1600-meter relay.
Amburgey also teamed with junior Laura Packard (Mount Vernon) to win the 55-meter hurdles relay with a total of 19.23 seconds.
Packard and sophomore Chelsea Imm (Glandorf/Ottawa-Glandorf) paired up for a win in the pole vault relay with a total of 17-11 3/4.
The Bishop distance medley relay team of Shinn, Reiter, junior Rachael Newman (Strongsville), and junior Kat Zimmerly (Edinboro, Pa./General McLane) won its event in 12:30.33.
Sophomore Hannah Phlipot (Van Wert) and sophomore Sam Smyth (Falmouth, Maine) claimed Ohio Wesleyan's other first-place finish, winning the shot put relay with a total of 74-6 1/4.
Other standouts for the Bishops included sophomore Emma Lisull (Ann Arbor, Mich./Greenhills) and freshman Jane Lehman (Amherst/Steele), who finished second in the 5000-meter run relay; and the sprint medley relay team of Dunbar, Lourette, Mitchell, and senior Claire Everhart (Edinboro, Pa./General McLane), which placed second.