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Allentown, PA (January 27, 2012) – The DeSales University women's track & field team saw four different athletes take home five first place finishes at the Muhlenberg College Invitational on Friday night in Memorial Hall.

Among the first-place finishers were sophomore Chelsea Schmidt in the pole vault (2.84m), sophomore Erinne Schmalzer in the shot put (11.72m), sophomore Cara Guth in both the one mile run (5:41.50) and 800-meter run (2:36.02), and freshman Samantha Myles in the 3,000-meters (12:26.73).

Other top performances came from sophomore Olivia Wade in the shot put (3rd – 11.03m), sophomore Kam Stocks (4th – 10.04m), and senior Ashley Wade (6th – 9.88m).  Senior Rachel Winters was second in the one mile run (5:50.22) and freshman Alyssa Brandt (9.48) and sophomore Chelsea Saylor (9.68) finished third and fourth in the 55-meter hurdles.

Junior Renee Kunkle was fourth in the 400-meters (1:06.79) followed by freshman Michelle Churchman in fifth (1:08.54) and Saylor in sixth (1:11.41).  Kunkle was also fourth in the 200-meters (30.36), freshman Shannon Hellem was fifth (31.14), and Churchman was sixth (31.64) rounding out the top finishers.

The Bulldogs return to action on Friday when they travel to the Widener University multi/field events only invitational and on Saturday at the DeSchriver Invitational at East Stroudsburg University.