Rouillard Leads Women's Track at MASCAC/Alliance Championships

GORHAM, Maine – Junior Molly Rouillard paced the Bridgewater State University women's track and field team at the MASCAC/New England Alliance Indoor Championships held at the University of Southern Maine on Saturday.

The Dartmouth, Massachusetts native captured both the MASCAC and Alliance titles in the 400-meter dash and the 4 x 400-meter relay.   She posted a time of 59.89 seconds in the 400 to set a MASCAC meet record while also tying Kristin Neville's 2003 school mark.  Rouillard, along with classmates Carrie Robitaille (Ludlow, Mass.) and Co Davis (Mansfield, Mass.) and freshman Malgorzata Czerwonka (Billerica, Mass.), also set the MASCAC 4 x 400 mark with a time of 4:.11.12.

Rouillard also won the MASCAC championship in the 3,000-meter run with a meet record time of 10:48.51, while Davis placed first in the 600-meter run (1:40.71).

Junior Sarah Lagasse (Rehoboth, Mass.) posted three first place MASCAC finishes as she won individual titles in the mile (5:21.24) and the 800-meter run (2:26.71) and joined classmates Jessica Eidinger (Sutton, Mass.) and Melissa Harris (Uxbridge, Mass.) and sophomore Megan Cullinane (Lunenburg, Mass.) on the Bears' MASCAC champion 4 x 800-meter relay team (10.25.51).

Eidinger also captured the MASCAC title in the 1,000 meter run with a time of 3:14.70.

Sophomore Taylor Robitaille (Ludlow, Mass.) set the BSU indoor mark in the pole vault with a height of eight feet, 0.5 inches.  Smith, who placed fourth in the MASCAC and ninth overall in the Alliance, eclipsed the previous school standard of seven feet, 9.25 inches set by both Whitney Demers and Julianne Lord in 2007.

The women's indoor team finished in third place in the MASCAC standings with 117 team points, and fifth in the Alliance standings with 64 points.  Worcester State University (201 points) captured the MASCAC title, while the University of Southern Maine (162 points) won the Alliance championship.