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Bemidji, Minn. - Buoyed by a litany of stellar individual performances, particularly in the distance events, the University of Minnesota Duluth laid clam to the team title at the 2014 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships, which wrapped up Saturday on the campus of Bemidji State University.

The Bulldogs rolled up 143 points as a team to dethrone defending champion and runnerup University of Mary (139 points) and capture their first conference indoor crown since 2004. Augustana College (91) was next followed by Minnesota State University-Mankato (77.16), Winona State University (56) and Wayne State College (54).

UMD freshman Samantha Rivard finished as the meet's leading point getter (28), aided by first-place showing in both the mile (4:57.66) and 5,000-meter runs (17:06.50) Saturday. She also took second in the 3,000-meter run one day earlier. Also contributing to the Bulldogs' point coffers Saturday were freshman Breanna Colbenson (2nd place; 17:18.84) and junior Alexandra Rudin (5th; 17:38.62) in the 5,000-meter run; sophomore Hannah Olson (4th; 5:05.88) and junior Amanda Boman (7th; 5:10.52) in the mile run; junior Victoria Zoller (3rd; 2:17.82), senior Kayla Johnson (6th; 2:19.66) and freshman Cassandra Ortberg (7th; 2:20.77) in the 800-meter run; senior Jacque Thaemert (3rd; 2:59.60), soophomore Hannah Olson (6th; 3:03.01) and senior Hannah Wurl ( junior Chanel Miller, who rolled up the most individual points at the NSIC indoors in 2013, in the 60-meter hurdles (4th; 8.88); junior Amelia Maher in the 600-meter run (5th; 1:36.70), junior Erin Pangerl in the 60-meter dash (6th; 7.88) and freshman Stefani Friedenfel in the triple jump (11.02 meters). In addition, the 4 x 400 relay team of Maher, sophomore Madeline Schaeffer, senior Kaitlin Hassing and Ortberg, placed eighth in the final event of the day.

Other top performers were Janet Johnson of the University of Mary, who broke her own record in the 60m hurdles as she blazed to a 8.37 provisional finish, shaving .21 off her previous mark from 2013. Also, the University of Mary’s 4X400 meter relay comprised of Crystal Hovland, Melanie Rodriguez, Kathryn Stewart and Cassandra Jones broke Winona State’s record of 3:53.3 by over two seconds as they won the event in a time of 3:50.99 to provisional qualify for the national championships.

2014 NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championship Results