FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bowen leads Mounties on Day One of PSAC Indoor Championships
 
EDINBORO – Charlsie Bowen placed second in the pole vault to lead Mountaineer track & field on day one of the PSAC Indoor Championships on Saturday.
 
Bowen cleared an NCAA provisional height of 3.56 meters in the pole vault to take second overall in the field. The sophomore was one of just three athletes to clear the height in her best result at a PSAC Championship event. It matched the best result for a Mountaineer women's pole vaulter with Alexa Tsiknas also finishing second in 2011.
 
The men's distance medley relay team of Quashaun Jaquay Willis, Nicholas Auchenbach, Ben Drexler and Joelsen Resimo placed fourth overall with a time of 10:14.11.
 
Junior Allison McCurry won her heat in the 5,000-meter run and hit a huge PR to finish 13^th at 18:38.85. McCurry entered the race seeded 20^th.
 
Sophomore Savannah Buckley hit a personal best in the 60-meter dash with her time of 8.01 to finish 14^th in the field. Buckley also registered a PR in the 300-meter dash at 26.68 to finish 22^nd.
 
Freshman Jenny Bellefleur took 20^th in the 200m with a personal best time of 26.51.
 
Another PR fell in the 400-meter dash where junior Melanie Hartley clocked a time of 1:00.3 to finish 21^st overall.
 
Nicholas Auchenbach was 13^th in the men's 400m at 51.14.
 
Vaulter Katy Haywood finished 18^th after clearing a height of 3.08 meters.
 
The Mountaineer women's team is 11^th through day one with eight points while the men also sit in 11^th with five team points.