DARTMOUTH, Mass – Senior Brittany Kriley (Fair Lawn, NJ) and the 4x800 meter relay won championships and 14 individuals collected points in individual events that propelled Eastern Connecticut State University to a second-place finish at the 24^th Little East Conference Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship Saturday at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
 
Kriley, who progressed from a last-place finish as a freshman in 2017 to fifth in 2018 to a tie for third in 2019, recorded a winning jump of 5-1 ¾ (1.57m) as the event's No. 1 seed to become the second Eastern female to win the event at the championship, following All-New England jumper Lauren Hultzman in 2012 and 2013.
 
The 4x800 relay also claimed ten points and became the second Eastern women's 4x800 relay in three years to win the title. The team of senior captain Lauren Bresson (Roxbury), sophomores Jill McGahan (Dedham, MA) and Kelsey Zator (Scotland) and freshman Elisabeth Rodil (Milford, NH) clocked a winning time of 10:47.46.
 
As a team, Eastern equaled its best finish in the championship, placing second for the second time in three years, with 125 points. The University of Southern Maine (158 points) unseated two-time defending champion Rhode Island College to annex its 21^st team championship, while Keene State College was third (92) in the eight-team field.
 
Event winners are accorded first-team All-LEC honors and second-place finishers are named second-team All-LEC.
 
Kriley was among three Eastern athletes to earn All-LEC recognition in two events, also taking second in the 100 hurdles (15.83) as the No. 3 seed. In addition to running a leg of the winning relay, Bresson was second in the 800 (2:25.87) as the No. 1 seed, and Zator took second in the 1500 (5:18.71) as the No. 2 seed. Kriley's preliminary time of 15.54 in the hurdles broke Melissa Bard's 25-year-old program record of 15.80.
 
Additional second-team All-LEC qualifiers include senior Arlene Blackwell (Winsted), junior Maggie Santacroce (Bristol) and sophomore Wendie Stewart (Hartford). Blackwell earned the honor in the 3000 steeplechase (15:19.07) as the No. 2 seed, Santacroce in the 10,000 (43:08.64) as the No. 4 seed, and Stewart in the discus (116-3/35.43m) as the top seed.
 
With a first and second, Kriley was credited with 18 of the team's points in individual events, with Stewart and Santacroce adding 14 each, junior captain Manar Enany (Fairfield) 13 and Blackwell 11. Stewart recorded her points in the discus and shot, Santacroce in the 5000 and 10,000, Enany in the hammer throw and triple jump and Blackwell in the 3000 steeplechase and 400 hurdles.
 
The meet was the final one in the careers of seniors Blackwell, Bresson, and Jasmine Conduah (Fairfeld). In the meet,  Conduah was third in the high jump (4-11 ¾ /1.52m) that netted the team six points and eighth in the 100 hurdles (17.94),


Eastern's All-Conference Performers
(Event winner is first team, second place is second team)
Name                                Event                    Place                          Mark                     Seed/mark
Arlene Blackwell               3000mSC                  2^nd                          15:19.07                  2^nd/15:21.46
Lauren Bresson                 800m                       2^nd                          2:25.87                     1^st/2:24.66
Brittany Kriley                  HJ                           1^st                           5-1 ¾ (1.57m)           1^st/1.62m
Brittany Kriley                    100mH                     2^nd                          15.83                          3^rd/16.36
Maggie Santacroce          10,000m                   2^nd                          43:08.64                      4^th/NT
Wendie Stewart                 DT                           2^nd                          116-3 (35.43m)           1^st/38.68m
Kelsey Zator                       1500m                   2^nd                             5:18.71                       2^nd/5:28.82
** 4x800m Relay                                            1^st                              10:47.46                     3^rd/NT
**-Jill McGahan, Lauren Bresson, Kelsey Zator, Elisabeth Rodil
 
Points
Name                                    Event                    Place                     Mark                     Pts.
Arlene Blackwell               3000mSC              2^nd                          15:19.07               8
Arlene Blackwell               400mH                  5^th                           1:17.89                  2
Arlene Blackwell               HJ                           6^th                           4-7 ¾ (1.42m)    1

Lauren Bresson                 800m                     2^nd                          2:25.87                  8

Shannon Burby                 JT                            4^th                           107-3 (32.68m) 4

Jasmine Conduah             HJ                           3^rd                           4-11 ¾ (1.52m)  6

Mackenzie Dunn              TJ                            4^th                           32-2 (9.80m)      4
Mackenzie Dunn              LJ                            5^th                           15-6 (4.72m)      2

Manar Enany                     HT                           3^rd                           130-4 (39.74m) 6
Manar Enany                     TJ                            3^rd                           32-9 ¾ (10.0m)  6
Manar Enany                     SP                           6^th                           34-7 ¾ (10.56m)1

Brittany Kriley                  HJ                           1^st                           5-1 ¾ (1.57m)    10
Brittany Kriley                    100mH                  2^nd                          15.83                     8

Claire Langton                   TJ                            5^th                           30-11 ¾ (9.44m)2

Jillian McGahan                10,000m               5^th                           44:06.88               2

Elisabeth Rodil                   800m                     6^th                           2:38.68                  1

Grisella Rodriguez            400m                     4^th                           1:07.52                  4

Maggie Santacroce          5000m                   3^rd                           20:33.55               6
Maggie Santacroce          10,000m               2^nd                          43:08.64               8

Wendie Stewart               DT                           2^nd                          116-3 (35.43m) 8
Wendie Stewart               SP                           3^rd                           36-11 ½ (11.26m)6

Kelsey Zator                       1500m                   2^nd                          5:18.71                  8

4x800m Relay   1^st                           10:47.46               10          
4x100m Relay    5^th                           54.15                     2
4x400m Relay    5^th                           4:40.43                  2
 
FINAL TEAM SCORES
 
1. University of Southern Maine                            158
2. Eastern Connecticut State University            125
3., Keene State                                                          92
4. Plymouth State                                                     70
5. UMass Dartmouth                                                52
6. UMass Boston                                                       48
7. Castleton                                                               37
8. Rhode Island College                                            26