GORHAM, Maine  -- The University of Southern Maine women's indoor track and field team pulled off another double Saturday winning the New England Alliance and Little East Conference championships for the ninth consecutive year.
       
The Huskies edged out runner up Westfield State College, 125-112, in the Alliance meet for the closest team finish since 2003.  Rhode Island College was third with 109 points followed by Worcester State College with 101 points.
       
The Huskies captured the Little East title over second place Rhode Island College, 163-133.  Keene State College was third with 101 points.
       
The New England Alliance meet consists of school representing the Little East Conference and the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC).  Each conference scores its respective champion from the Alliance results.
       
Southern Maine won two Alliance events.  Junior Emily Artesani (Orono, Maine) took the top spot for the third straight year in the 400 meters with her time of 1 minute, 0.98 seconds.  Artesani finished second in the 200 meters with a time of 27.09 seconds and fourth in the 55-meter dash with a time 7.69.
       
Freshman Bethany Dumas (Augusta, Maine) made a big splash in her first Alliance meet winning the pole vault with a school and meet record height of 3.66 meters (12-0).  That height broke the school record of 11-9 3/4 (3.60 meters) set by Melissa Bellemore in February 2006 and the meet record of 11-7 set by Bellemore the same year.  Dumas also improves upon her NCAA Division III provisional qualifying mark.      

Others picking up second place finishes were sophomore Hillary Hall (Waldoboro, Maine) in the high jump (1.60 meters/5-3) and junior Sarah Myrick (Weybridge, Vt.) in the 3,000 meters (11:03.12).
       
Earning third place results were sophomore Christina Connolly (Boise, Idaho) in the pole vault (3.05 meters/10-0), senior Emily Poliquin (Lisbon Falls, Maine/Lisbon) in the triple jump (10.87 meters/35-8), sophomore Carly Dion (Biddeford, Maine) in the 800 meters (2:25.00) and senior Gabby Cyr (Fort Kent, Maine) in the mile (5:27.96).  Dion was one spot behind Cyr in the mile (5:28.22).
       
Southern Maine will send its qualified competitors to the New England Division III Championships to be held next weekend at Bowdoin College.

Little East Conference Results                                           New England Alliance Results

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