Georgia outdoes Arkansas women

Despite Razorbacks’ strong showing, Bulldogs hit on all cylinders in win

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Arkansas Razorbacks women couldn’t have performed much better on the second day of the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

The problem was neither could the Georgia women, who have found their stride by adding sprinters to their bevy of jump champions.

The Razorbacks’ efforts were good enough to solidly place second, which Coach Lance Harter couldn’t have been more proud of when he stood behind his team and watched as his athletes celebrated their accomplishment and posed for photos.

Twins Lexi Jacobus and Tori Hoggard avenged last year’s showing at the NCAA meet and outperformed SEC champion Olivia Gruver of Kentucky to place first and second in the pole vault, while Payton Chadwick had to wait to see whether she had won the 60 hurdles it was so close. She did by four-hundreths of a second.

Jacob us cleared a school- record 15 feet, 3 ½ inches to win the pole vault, edging her sister by 2 inches for the 1-2 finish. Chadwick, who ran under eight seconds for the first time in the prelims on Friday, bettered the effort with a 7.922.

Nikki Hiltz started the proceedings with a thirdplace finish in the mile with a personal-best 4:32.59, which was just .19 off the school mark.

Arkansas also got points from Desiree Freier, who was fifth in the pole vault (14-5½) and Janeek Brown, who was eighth in the 60 hurdles at 8.51 after clipping a hurdle.

The Razorbacks finished second with 49 points, 12 behind Georgia and 15 clear of Kentucky.

Jacobus