CINCINNATI, Ohio - Having already secured one national berth this indoor season,
Emerson VanScoy earned another in even more impressive fashion Saturday.
VanScoy won the high jump and hit the NAIA national qualifying 'A' standard, one of two events she won for the Midway women's indoor track and field team, which took third at the Mount Saint Joseph Alumni Open in Cincinnati.
The Eagles won four events overall on their way to a 78-point finish.
Having already locked up the win and a 'B' standard after clearing 1.66 meters, VanScoy hit the 'A' mark on her second try. She was a national 'B' Standard qualifier in high jump
at both Indoor and Outdoor Nationals a season ago,
narrowly missing an All-American finish at Outdoor.
This comes after she, alongside teammates
Maddi Reed and
Makayla Brooks,
hit the qualifying 'B' standard in pole vault two weeks earlier.
For good measure, VanScoy also took first in long jump Saturday with a distance of 5.15.
Brooks continued her strong start to the season, tying teammate
Cate Coppola for the top mark in pole vault at 3.50, with Brooks earning the win.
On the track side, Midway also got a first-place run of 14:26.46 in the 4,000-meter distance medley from
Stevie McSorley,
Abby Baldridge,
Macy Adams and
Ariah Egleston.
In sprints,
Emilee Cecil had a pair of third-place finishes, running an 8.30 in the 60 and 28 seconds flat in the 200.
In another relay,
Malene Obermayer, Coppola, VanScoy and Reed took fifth in the 4x400 in 4:50.13.
Elsewhere, McSorley (800, 2:36.43),
Riley Gillis (3,000, 12:30.54) and
Kashlynn Rice (60 hurdles, 10.81) all had sixth-place finishes, with
Nadia Meeks (11.05, 60 hurdles) and
Lillian Alcorn (11.22) directly behind Meeks in the 60 hurdles.
The Eagles have one more tune-up before the River States Conference Indoor Championships next weekend, traveling to Danville, Ky. for th Center Indoor Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
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