HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The West Liberty University women's indoor track and field team finished runner-up for the second consecutive year at the Mountain East Conference Championships.
 
The Hilltoppers earned 121 team points comfortably in second, 34 points ahead of West Virginia Wesleyan and 62 behind the now back-to-back champion Charleston.
 
Kennedy Martin won the shot put with a new school record (12.45m) and three more fell in an action-packed day one. Olivia Combs upped her own school record in pole vault to 3.48m and finished second, while freshman Sierra Lanham also earned a silver medal with a school record 5.52m long jump. Zayne Brakeall scored a school record in the pentathlon with 2,803 points finishing in fourth place. Read the full day one recap here.
 
West Liberty got right to work earning first place finishes in each of the final two field events of the meet. Sydney Jefferys broke the school record on her third weight throw of the day with a 15.90m toss to finish atop the podium scoring 10 team points. Suzan Johnson added five team points coming in fourth place with a long throw of 14.65m.
 
The Hilltoppers took spots 1 and 2 on the podium in high jump. Freshman Jai'lah Walker finished in first place with a clear of 1.62m. Teammate Mara Pendergrast tied Walker with a clear of 1.62m as well, but Walker's jump was on her first attempt to claim the tiebreaker, while Pendergrast went over foul-free on her second try. The duo collected 18 points towards the Black and Gold's team total.
 
Senior Hailey Carreon made the 60m hurdles finals and came in second place crossing the line in 9.14 seconds to earn eight team points.
 
Maggie Kovalcik set two school records racing in the 60m and 400m dashes. Kovalcik edged out a new school record by one-hundredth of a second in the 60m, posting a 7.87, to claim fifth place and four team points. She was back at it in the 400m recording a 59.95 fourth place finish to earn five team points. Kovalcik had the first-ever, sub-one-minute time in the prelims on Friday with a 59.87.
 
Hannah Kemp ran her way to a silver medal in the 3000m race finishing in 10:28.28 only behind Julie LaFare, of Charleston, who set a new conference record (9:57.83). Kemp totaled eight team points for her spot on the podium.
 
The 4x400m relay squad featuring Zayne Brakeall, Bailey Pack, Ivy Allen, and Maggie Kovalcik grabbed a team point in the final event of the weekend, running a school-record time of 4:17.41 which resulted in eighth place.
 
Brakeall also picked up a point in the triple jump finishing in eighth after posting long leap of 9.88m on the third attempt.
 
West Liberty will begin outdoor season on March 16-19 in Charlotte, N.C.

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