On Saturday, I had the pleasure of covering the Little East Indoor Championships at the Providence Career & Technical Academy. The Little East Conference consists of nine Division III schools: Castleton, East Connecticut, Keene State, Plymouth State, Rhode Island College, Southern Maine, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth and Western Connecticut State.
I apologize to the competitors that I did not get a chance to cover. I did my best to hustle around the venue but missed quite a bit of the throwing competition.
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In the women's high jump, Plymouth State's Ani Flynn cleared 1.59 meters to win the competition. Dorinda Okorji (UMass Boston) also cleared 1.59 but came in second on count backs. Olivia Jalbert of Southern Maine cleared 1.53, the same height as three other competitors but secured the third spot on missed attempts.
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The women's 5000 meter run featured the teammates of Keene State securing the top two positions. Margaret St. John won the event in a time of 18:42.13. Her teammate, Kalle Warner ran a personal best of 18:26.2 to place second. Emily Philbrook of UMass Dartmouth came in third place and ran a personal best in 18:53.41.
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In the 60 meter hurdles, Aryianna Garceau of UMass Boston ran an impressive race to win the championship title and hurdle to one of her fastest times of the year. Keene State's Molly Lu McKellar had a clean hurdle race to finish in the second position. Saya Breiting-Brown of Southern Maine ran a personal best in the heats. Saya followed up that fantastic time in the finals with a third place finish.
Aryianna Garceau followed up her victory in the hurdles with a win in the 60 meter dash. Aryianna ran a personal best in the finals to secure the win. Keene State's Keely Giordano also ran a personal record to place second in the final. Multi-talented Khalsa Hammith of Southern Maine finishe third in the race (also running to a personal best.) Khalsa would also win the long jump competition.
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Rose Karow of Plymouth State ran one of her fastest times of the year to win the women's 800 meter run. Sarah Ames of Keene State ran a personal best to place second with Julia Latura of UMass Dartmouth finishing third in the final of the 800 meter run.
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In the 200 meter run, Aryianna Garceau (UMass Boston) recorded the same time as Janiah Young of Southern Maine but got the win with an outstanding lean. Janiah's teammate Isa Moustakas finished with the third best overall time for the day, while winning her heat.
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Haley Oliver of Rhode Island College won the 3000 meter race in a season's best performance (10:31.36) UMass Boston's Shea Roche came in second place and Gwen Catalano from Southern Maine finished in third, setting a personal best.
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