The Emory University track & field teams took part in the Berry Field Day Invitational on Saturday afternoon in Rome, GA. The women’s team continued their strong performance of late, winning their third straight scored meet, edging out Division II’s Shorter 159.50-152 while the men’s team placed third at the Invitational with 100 team points.

The women were led by a pair of event winners on the day. Sophomore Gabrielle Stravech took home first in the 1,500m Run with a time of 4:45.15 and the 4x400m Relay team of junior Alexa Young, sophomore Erica Goldman, freshman Hayley Moyer and junior Elizabeth Magno closed out the meet winning the event with a time of 4:01.99.

The Eagles also set new season-best team marks in three events on the women’s side. Freshman Anne Marie Simeoneaux in the pole vault (2^nd, 3.05m), freshman Dilys Osei in the 100m Hurdles (2^nd, 15.15) and freshman Ariana Newhouse in the 200m Dash (4^th, 25.74).

For the men’s team, Emory scored four event winners at the meet with senior Jack Seigel winning both the shot put and discus events. In the shot, Seigel recorded a new personal-best and the third best mark in school history with a distance of 14.11m and in the discus, Seigel took first with a mark of 43.22m. Also winning events for the Eagles on Saturday were senior Spencer Koh in the javelin and sophomore Daniel Pietsch in 400m Dash. Koh registered a new season-best team mark in the javelin with a distance of 52.82 and Piestch clocked in at 48.64 for the first place showing.

Emory added two other season-best team marks with Koh in the pole vault (3^rd, 4.45m) and sophomore Max Brown in the 800m Run (2^nd, 1:55.80). The mark by Koh in the pole vault also represents the fourth best mark recorded in the event in school history.

The Eagles will be back in action next Friday at the Mount Laurel Invitational held at Sewanee University in the final tune up before the 2016 UAA Outdoor Championships at Washington University on April 23^rd and 24^th.