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Sophomore Manika Gamble won the 400-meter hurdles and was runner-up in the 100-meter hurdles to pace the High Point University women's track & field team to a fifth-place finish at the Big South Championship on Saturday at Charleston Southern. Senior Geneva Winterink took third in both the 5,000-meter and steeplechase and sophomore Christina Fenske was runner-up in the high jump.

“I thought it was a solid team effort, we put ourselves in position to finish in the top three and were actually fourth going into the final event,” said HPU head coach Mike Esposito. “The highlight was Manika's double in the hurdles along with a 56.4 split in the 4x400 relay. It was great to see Geneva on the podium twice as a senior and Christina Fenske continued her consistency in the high jump. I'm also very pleased with the progress of our throwers.”

Liberty scored 245.5 points to best runner-up Coastal Carolina's 191. The race for third was much tighter, with Charleston Southern taking third with 90 points, Winthrop fourth with 73, High Point fifth with 69 and Radford sixth with 56.5. Rounding out the team race, Gardner-Webb placed seventh with 39 points, UNC Asheville took eighth with 37 points and VMI placed ninth with 16.

Gamble ran away with the 400-meter hurdles title, finishing in 59.62, more than three seconds ahead of runner-up Olivia Charnuski of Liberty (1:02.99). In the 100-meter hurdles, Gamble ran to a time of 14.08 into a headwind to place second to Winthrop's Rebecca Holmes. Sophomore Erin Lonon placed seventh in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:06.59.

Winterink had a great finish in the 5,000-meter to pass several runners and place third in a time of 18:07.95. She placed third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on Friday night in 11:16.82. Behind Winterink, Kelsey Frasier placed fourth in the steeplechase and Emily Webb took seventh and Kelsey Hunt placed ninth in the 5,000-meter. On Thursday night in the 10,000-meter, Webb took third in 38:12.55 and Brittany Killough took sixth in 38:57.10.

In the field events, Fenske cleared 5-5.25 to tie for second in the high jump. She was also named to the Big South All-Academic team. Sophomore Gabrielle Barnes placed sixth in the heptathlon with 3,924 points and HPU got eighth-place finishes from senior Kara Boatman in the shot put, freshman Lynee Pina in the discus and senior Amber Donnelly in the javelin.

Gamble and Lonon teamed with Rachel Webb and Emma Tobin to place sixth in the 4x400-meter relay. HPU's 4x100-meter relay of Barnes, Lora Robinson, Rachel Webb and Lonon placed fifth.

High Point University hosts the VertKlasse Meeting on Sunday, April 25 at Vert Stadium. The field events begin at 5 p.m. and the running events begin at 6 p.m. The high-energy event is HPU's only home meet of the season.