PHILADELPHIA – The Duke track & field program wrapped up the second day of the Penn Relays in Philadelphia Friday, highlighted by another relay squad qualifying for tomorrow's finals.
Duke advanced its second relay team to Saturday's finals as the women's 4x200 squad of India Lowe, Madeline Kopp, MacKenzie Kerr and Maddy Price combined for one of the top preliminary times in the event. The quartet finished first in heat three, running a 1:37.57 for the sixth-best time in the competition. The team will run Saturday at 2:25 p.m. in the College Women's 4x200 Championship of America Invitational, followed by the group of Kopp, Kerr, Price and Teddi Maslowski, who logged its qualifying time yesterday, in the College Women's 4x400 Championship of America Invitational at 5:50 p.m.
Elsewhere on the track, the men's relay team of Chaz Hawkins, Matthew Rodio, Michael Wilson and Jordan Burton placed seventh overall in the College Men's Sprint Medley Championship of America Invitational with a time of 3:26.90, the fifth-fastest time in Duke history. The first three legs, with Hawkins and Rodio each running 200 meters and Wilson covering 400 meters, combined for a 1:33.67 split before Burton clocked a 1:53.23 anchor leg over the final 800 meters.
Maslowski served as the Blue Devils' lone individual runner, competing in the College Women's 100-Meter Hurdles preliminary heats. The redshirt senior multi-event athlete crossed the line in a preliminary time of 14.02, just two spots short of qualifying for finals.
Representing Duke in the field events, redshirt senior Stephen Boals placed seventh in the College Men's Shot Put Championship with a heave of 56-6.50 (17.23m), while freshman Domonique Panton used a mark of 38-4.25 (11.69m) to finish 17th in the Women's Triple Jump College event. In the Men's High Jump College competition, sophomore Colt Sessions led the Blue Devil contingent with a height of 6-6.75 (2.00m) to finish tied for 16th.
The Blue Devils will close out the final day of the Penn Relays Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. with both track events and field events. Fans can watch live action of the Penn Relays Saturday from 12:30-3:00 p.m. on NBCSN, which will include Duke in the women's 4x200 and also the men's 4xMile relay.
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