BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Cress sisters combined to score seven points Friday in the shot put to help the Clarion University women's track and field team to a 10^th place standing after the second day of the 2012 PSAC Track & Field Championships at Bloomsburg.
 
Carol Cress took fourth with a throw of 42-feet, 2 1/4-inches while Allyson Cress was seventh in the event with a throw of 39-feet, 7-inches. Combined with the eighth-place finish Thursday by Milea Schall in the 10,000-meter run, Clarion has eight points going into the final day Saturday just four behind ninth place Millersville.
 
Also Friday, Alexis Carter qualified for Saturday's final in the 400-meter hurdles with the second-fastest preliminary time (1:03.22). Carter just missed qualifying in the 100-meter hurdles taking ninth in a time of 15.23, just 0.03 out of a qualifying spot.  
 
Megan Toddy just missed scoring in the 5,000-meter run taking ninth in a time of 18:37.27, while Sarah Loughner just missed scoring in the high jump taking ninth with a leap of 5-feet, 1 ¼-inches and Carol Cress was 10^th in the Hammer throw (141-feet, 6-inches).
 
The 4x100-metr relay team of Carter, Nicolena Guzzi, Bethany Naugle and Jessica Vitous took 10^th in a time of 49.57, while Vitous was 13^th in the 100 hurdles in a time of 15.99 and Naugle was 21^st in the long jump in a time of 16-feet, 1-inches. Katie Chambers was 16^th in the 800-meter run in a time of 2:23.41.
 
The championships conclude Saturday.