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The 2016 WCAC Championships were able to avoid heavy rainfall for the most part on Saturday for day two of their competition. But the rest of the WCAC competition couldn't stop the reign that is the Elizabeth Seton girls as they extended their streak of team titles to ten in a row.
The Elizabeth Seton girls tallied 183.50 points over the two days at Good Counsel High School, which included a meet record breaking performance on day one in the 4x200 meter relay of 1:40.03. They broke their own meet record set by their 2011 squad at 1:40.33 in one of their first times this spring loading up the All-American indoor quartet.
Lauren Morgan was one of their top individual performers on the track as she was able to withstand a strong challenger in St. Mary's Ryken sophomore Kelisa Cain (Cain ran 11.96 meet record in 100 prelims) in both the 100 and 200 meter dash finals with clockings of 12.02 in the 100 and 24.51 in the 200 respectively.
Their 4x100 meter relay squad, which wasn't their "A" squad, picked up another 10 points for their squad late in the competition on Saturday posting a winning time of 49.10.
In the field events, the Elizabeth Seton girls picked up a whopping 47 points from the throwing events alone led by girls shot put champion Georgia Coleman (33'6") and girls discus champion Maiya Chapman (91'4").
Nina Crawford was a double winner for Elizabeth Seton like teammate Morgan in clearing 5'4" on a slick surface for the girls high jump and edging out Taylor Grimes of Bishop McNamara by a mere quarter of an inch in the long jump with her winning leap of 17'3.50".
Meanwhile, Grimes swept the hurdles on Saturday taking the 100 meter hurdles finals in 14.62 and running a 45.43 personal best race to place first in the 300 meter hurdles. Both races, Grimes was pressed to the finish line by a hurdler from St. John's College in freshmen Nile Brown (2nd, 14.75) in the 100 meter hurdles and Sahna Sabbakhan (2nd, 45.44) in the 300 meter hurdles.
It was easy to see how the St. John's College girls were able to qualify for the Championships of America 4x400 meter relay finals at the Penn Relays last month when they swept the top 3 places in the girls 400 at the WCAC Championships led by race champion and sophomore Kasey Ebb in a 56.41 PR victory. She was followed by two fellow underclassmen teammates Alahna Sabbakhan (2nd, 57.14) and Aliya Williams (3rd, 58.73). Their 4x400 meter relay squad won the final event decisively as well by 16 seconds with their overall time of 3:57.41.
The Good Counsel girls did their damage in the distant events led by senior Megan Crilly going out strong in her final races on her home track. Crilly anchored the Good Counsel girls to the 4x800 title in a season best time of 9:36.77 and victory to start off the meet. Next, Crilly would then win individually both the 3200 on Friday in 11:43.48 and 1600 on Saturday in 5:28.72 with teammate Claudia Wendt taking runner-up and Ellen Tuttle finishing fourth in both races to rack up serious points as a group.
She would finish her two days taking runner-up in the 800 behind Holy Cross junior Theresa Rogers (2nd, 2:17.45), but not before running a new personal best at 2:18.14 for second place and another eight points for her team.
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