In the team’s second and final home track and field meet of the season, the Emory University women came away with a team win, while the men finished second, at the Emory Classic and Decathlon this weekend.

The women finished first out of the 16 teams competing, scoring 168.50 points during the two-day meet.  Hope College finished second with 118 points, while Murray State University finished third with 93 points.  On the men’s side, Emory’s 157 points placed the team second only to Hope College’s 194 points, while Taylor University finished third with 155 points.

Emory senior Brittany Donino once again paced the women, recording first-place finishes in both the hurdle events.  In the 400-meter hurdles on day one, Donino recorded the sixth-fastest time in school history, 1:04.41, just .21 seconds shy of the NCAA provisional qualifying time.  She returned on day two to win the 100-meter hurdles, after recorded a provisional time of 14.94 seconds in the preliminaries of the event.

Emory sophomores Charlotte Diggs and Laura Lambie-Hanson finished second and third, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles, while sophomore Jasmine McCullough and Lambie-Hanson claimed second and third in the 100-meter hurdles.

Also on the first day, freshman Theresa Ford won the javelin throw with a toss of 33.45 meters, and finished second in the high jump, clearing a height of 1.57 meters.  Senior Natalie Fenn won the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:21.85, just under nine seconds short of a provisional mark, while teammate and fellow senior Rebecca Flink finished second.  Sophomore Lauren Attiah finished third in the long jump with a distance of 5.15 meters.

On the second day, freshman Melanie Frank won the 800-meter run with a time of 2:20.74, while also running the third leg of the Eagles’ winning 4x400-meter relay team (4:04.31), along with Hadiza Sa-Aadu, Lambie-Hanson, and Melanie Levy.  Ford claimed her second victory of the meet as well, winning the discus throw with a distance of 37.27 meters.

Other top three finishers from Emory on day two of the Classic included sophomore Alix Dyer in the 200-meter dash (2^nd, 25.53 seconds) and Kara Cutrona in the shot put (2^nd, 10.71 meters).

Senior Alex Greenhouse came away with victories in two events during the meet for the men.  On the first day, Greenhouse won the 400-meter hurdles with a personal season-best and NCAA provisional qualifying time of 53.09 seconds.  On day two, he was victorious 400-meter dash with a time of 49.52 seconds.  His fellow senior Tyler Faits finished second in the 400-meter dash in a mark of 49.73 seconds.

The Eagles also placed well in the 3,000-meter run, where senior Charles Meade won the event with a time of 8:54.48.  Emory athletes claimed the next four spots in the event as well, with Paul Winterhalter finishing second, Stephen Ellwood third, Michael Spewak fourth and Andrew Sullivan fifth.

Also finishing first at the meet for Emory was Anthony Lombardo, who won the pole vault by clearing a height of 4.35 meters, matching his season best.

Other top three-finishers for Emory at the meet included Ben Euwer in the hammer throw (3^rd, 40.77 meters), Tommy Fyffe in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (2^nd, 9:34.22), Everett Bryant in the 110-meter hurdles (3^rd, 15.42 seconds), Jason Campbell in the 800-meter run (1:57.42), Xavier Fowler in the triple jump (2^nd, 13.60 meters) and the Eagles’ 4x400-meter relay team of Chike Brennen, Isaac Chambers, Campbell and Faits (3^rd, 3:22.30).

Emory senior Stephen Beehler and junior Brad Pruente also competed in the decathlon at the meet.  Beehler earned a third-place finish with 5,703 points, while Pruente came in fourth with 5,649 points.

The Emory Classic also marked the final home meet of the careers of a number of Emory’s senior athletes.  The Eagles celebrated the achievements of their departing seniors during a ceremony held in the middle of the meet on Saturday.

With the Emory Classic in the books, the Eagles have completed their home meet schedule for the 2010 Outdoor Track and Field season.  Emory will return to action next weekend at the Duke Invitational on Friday and Saturday, and the Gem of the Hills Invitational at Jacksonville State on Saturday.