BALTIMORE – Lauryn Clarke won a pair of events, and Maeve Lowther took first in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Saturday while the Loyola University Maryland track and field team competed at its home venue in the Loyola-Johns Hopkins Invitational.
 
Lowther won the steeple by more than 30 seconds on Saturday, turning in a time of 10:51.33 while George Washington's Claire Bohan was second in 11:26.24.
 
Her winning time was a personal-best by more than 10 seconds and is the third-fastest in school history. She is also the second woman at Loyola to run under 11 minutes in the event.
 
Clarke completed a double in the 100 and 200 meters for the second time this season, winning the 100 in 11.94 seconds and the 200 in 24.51.
 
Her time in the 200 is the second-fastest in program history, just shy of her school-record time of 24.24 seconds from last season. She ran the fifth-fastest time in the 100.
 
Jane Mazzeo took second in the 100 behind Clarke's 11.94, running a personal-best of 12.28 to improve her time as the fourth-fastest competitor in the event in Loyola history. Maddie Van Haren finished 11^th in 12.56 and is the fifth-fastest ever at Loyola in the event.
 
Madelyn Ricard was 16^th in 12.82, Mia Maselli took 17^th in 12.88, and Elizabeth Gallagher ran 12.99 for 20^th.
 
Claire Dalsass and Kiera Udell posted top 10 finishes in the 800 meters, running 2:17.46 for fourth and 2:18.57 for sixth, respectively. Kat Zysk was 18^th in 2:24.69, and Talia Banafato ran 2:32.59 for 28^th.
 
Mackenzie Newman finished fourth in the steeplechase with a time of 11:49.17, and Kylie Maddalena was ninth in the 5,000 meters in 19:14.61.
 
Meghan Leonard ran her first collegiate 400 hurdles race and finished seventh in 66.15 seconds, five-hundredths of a second in front of Lauren Gerow who was eighth in 66.20. Maggie Yost finished 13^th in 70.21 in the evnet after taking 11th in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.38 seconds.
 
Van Haren had an eighth-place finish in the 200 with a time of 25.32, while Mazzeo was 12^th in 25.69. Maselli finished 17^th in 26.30, while Gallagher's personal-best of 26.78 was good for 23^rd. Ricard clocked 27.23 for 29^th, while Chelsea Ayitey-Adjin was 46^th in 28.39 and Ajia Morrison ran 28.58 for 47^th.
 
A quartet of Greyhounds ran in the 400 meters with Julia Baguiao's 13^th-place finish in 61.08 leading the way. Nicole Militi was a spot behind in 61.42, while Ayitey-Adjin and Morrison were 19^th and 20^th in 64.74 and 65.14 seconds.
 
Udell ran 4:44.04 for 15^th in the 1,500 meters, leading six Greyhounds in the event. Norah Affanato was 30^th in 4:55.27, and Kayla Hayes ran 4:58.22 for 35^th. Kasey Boag took 39^th in 5:01.23, and Maddie Hyde's 5:13.83 and Banafato's 5:23.55 took 56^th.
 
The Greyhounds 4x100-meter relay of Mazzeo, Maselli, Gallagher and Nelly Cruz was fourth in 49.00 seconds. Loyola's top 4x400-meter relay – Baguiao, Dalsass, Militi and Leonard – was third in 4:03.99. Gerow, Maselli, Zysk and Ayitey-Adjin were eighth in 4:16.67, while Gallagher, Hyde, Boag and Hayes took 10^th in 4:23.46.
 
Loyola men's cross country runners competed in a pair of events. Dennis McNamara was ninth in the 5,000 meters in 15:37.30, and Christian Zawislack took seventh in the men's steeplechase in 9:59.46.