BALTIMORE – Gillian Blackwood and Molly Smith set school records on Friday, and the Loyola University Maryland women's track and field team won five events as the Greyhounds took second as a team at the 2019 Loyola/Johns Hopkins Invitational.
 
Blackwood took down a nearly eight-year old school record in the 100-meter hurdles; Smith topped her own standard in the 400 meters, a race in which Senna Ohlsson tied Smith's previous record, as well.
 
Smith was one of three individual winners for Loyola, and she was a part of three winning relays for the Greyhounds.
 
Heather Merrifield won the 400-meter hurdles, MaryEllen Woods claimed top honors in the 800 meters, and the 4x100- and 4x400-meter relay teams both took first in their races.
 
Men's cross country runner Nathan Galloway also claimed a win in the 5,000 meters at the meet.
 
The Greyhounds scored 121 points at the meet, finishing second behind Towson University.
 
Blackwood ran a wind-legal time of 15.02 in the hurdles, taking more than a quarter-second off the previous school record. Samantha Westley set that standard in May 2011, running 15.29 at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships.
 
Kathleen Shepherd and Bre Mucius also scored in the hurdles for Loyola; Shepherd took fourth in 15.43, the fourth-fastest time in school history, and Mucius was seventh in 16.15.
 
Smith and Ohlsson dueled in what would be the fastest quarter-mile race run by two Loyola runners in program history. Smith crossed the line in 56.45, edging Ohlsson's 56.48 by three-hundredths of a second. Ohlsson's time tied Smith's previous record and is now second-best in school history.
 
Maria Jaeckel also scored in the 400 for the Greyhounds, running 60.18 to take eighth.
 
Heather Merrifield continued her strong start to the outdoor season with a victory in the 400-meter hurdles. She ran 61.86 in the race and now has run the three fastest times in school history over the last three weeks.
 
Devon Terwilliger and Eve Schoenberg finished third (65.80) and fourth (66.58), respectively, behind Merrifield.
 
MaryEllen Woods won the 800 meters, leading four Greyhounds who finished in the top-seven in the event. Woods completed the two laps of the track in 2:15.22, edging teammate Kayleigh Caggiano who was second in 2:15.80. Grayce Heinemann took sixth in 2:19.71, and Audrey O'Neill finished seventh in 2:20.17.
 
Smith was part of two relays that won on Friday, running the second leg of both the 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays.
 
Rhoda Miller, Smith, Rachel Koller and Danielle Spano won the shorter of the two relays in 48.72, the second-fastest time in school history. Merrifield, Katherine Schramm, Terwilliger and Ariana Santo Pietro were third in the race, clocking a time of 49.14 that is good for ninth-fastest at Loyola.
 
The 4x400-meter relay team of Koller, Smith, Ohlsson and Courtney Kenny won in 3:54.72, the ninth-best time in school history.
 
Kenny took third in the 200 meters, running 25.62 which is No. 3 all-time at Loyola. Koller was close behind in 25.93, tying her personal-best and her mark for sixth-fastest in program history. Jaeckel also scored, taking eighth in 26.23.
 
Koller and Schramm both had top-10 finishes in the 100 meters as the former ran a wind-aided 12.55 seconds, and the latter crossed the line in 12.71, also wind-aided.
 
Gabrielle Silvestri was sixth in the 1,500 meters (4:56.28), and Tara Ryan took seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 12:17.86. Grace Jansson also was a scorer in the 5,000 meters, running 18:53.92 to place seventh.
 
In men's racing, Brandon Rossi was 20^th in the 800 meters, finishing in 2:02.35, while Jake Fowler (4:14.77) and Sam Williams (4:15.66) finished 10^th and 12^th in the 1,500 meters. Galloway took first-place in the 5,000 meters, running 15:27.13.
 
The men also ran in the 4x400 meters where Patrick Cropsey, Galloway, Rossi and Fowler were 10^th in 3:45.30.