CONWAY, Ark. – With only five student-athletes competing, the Millsaps College track and field team turned in an extraordinary sixth place performance out of 10 teams at the 2010 SCAC Championships held at Hendrix College over the weekend.

\#Erica Cook\# led the charge with a second place finish in the 100m dash and a third place finish in the 200m dash to earn All-SCAC honors in each event and was edged out by Lindsay Svehla of Rhodes College by just one one-hundredth of a second in the 100.

\#Deonna Walton\# also had an impressive showing in the sprints finishing the 100m dash in fifth place to gain four team points for the Majors.

Walton's best event took place on Friday when she had the best mark in the long jump heading into the final attempt by Samantha Specht of Rhodes, who jumped two inches further to claim the individual title.

For her second place finish in the long jump, Walton received All-SCAC honors.

Running the 1500m for the first time this spring, \#Krista Clark\# crossed the finish line in 15th place with a time of 5:36.49.

In the 4x400 meter relay, the Millsaps team of Cook, Walton, Clark and \#Victoria Romano\# earned one team point by finishing in eighth place.

Turning to the throwing events which took place on Friday, \#Kasey Laird\# had a career day picking up six team points with a fourth place finish in the discus and an eighth place finish in the javelin.

Laird's 26.61m throw in the javelin came as a personal best and she added a 12th place finish in the shot put with a toss of 9.54m.

Romano also fared well in the discus finishing right behind Laird in ninth place with a personal best throw of 29.91m and recorded another personal best in the javelin with a mark of 25.42m, which placed her 14th overall.

“These young women worked extremely hard to get to this point and they gave it their all this weekend and the results really showed” head coach Andy Till said.

In just its first year sponsoring the sport, Millsaps finished in sixth place out of 10 teams with 33 points.

Rhodes College earned its third consecutive conference title with 228.5 team points, 39 points more than second-place DePauw University, who finished with 189.5 points.

The Lynx are the first women's program to win three consecutive SCAC Track & Field Championships since Sewanee accomplished the task in 1992, 1993 and 1994.