Taylor Leads Dukes at ECAC Championships

Friday, May 12

Princeton, N.J.

James Madison University

ECAC Outdoor Championships

5/14/2017 7:51:00 PM | Track & Field

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PRINCETON, N.J. – James Madison scored 21 points on the final day of the ECAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships to notch a 13th-place team finish inside Weaver Stadium on Sunday.

Freshman Alexys Taylor led the way for the Dukes with a second-place finish (eight points) in the 100-meter dash with a mark of 11.79 seconds. Senior Annie Johnson took 10th place in 12.21 seconds.

Taylor also ran the anchor leg of the 4x100 relay team that took fourth place (five points). She was joined by Johnson, senior Kennedy King and junior Aereale Scott for a time of 45.98 seconds.

The Dukes also got five points from a fourth-place finish in the 4x800 relay. The team of juniors Erica Gray and Madeleine McCarty and sophomores Micaela Poggi and Erica Jackson combined for a mark of 9:03.04.

JMU's scoring was rounded out by senior Carol Strock's seventh-place finish (two points) in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:28.46, and Scott's eighth-place finish (one point) in the 100-meter hurdles with a mark of 14.43 seconds. Redshirt junior De'Ana Forbes took ninth in the 100-meter hurdles, trailing Scott by thousandths of a second.

Combined with the five points from senior Tessa Mundell's fourth-place finish in Friday's 3,000-meter steeplechase, JMU totaled 26 points to finish in 13th. Cornell won the team competition with 74 points.

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The Dukes continue postseason competition with the NCAA East Preliminary meet in Lexington, Ky. from May 25-27. The individual event student-athletes and relay teams accepted into Preliminary Round competition will be announced and posted on NCAA.com the week prior to Preliminary Round competition.