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UdeM records 9th at nationals

Three Université de Moncton completed their season at the U championships in Windsor, Ont., on the weekend.

Jean-Luc Bastarache, Constance Gil-man and Isabelle Morris were entered in the national championships for the Aigles Bleus and Aigles Bleues.

Bastarache, of Truro, N.S., finished ninth in the men’s with 4,432 points.

He was fourth in the (4.10 metres); fifth in the (11.14 metres); eighth in the (6.07 metres), (1.74 metres) and 1,000 metres (2:54,40); 11th in the 60-metre hurdles (9.17 seconds); and 12th in the (7.78 seconds).

Kieran Johnston of the Huskies won the heptathlon with 5,259 points.

Gilman, a native of Brackley Beach, P.E.I., came in 13th in the women’s shot put with a best throw of 11.08 metres. She was the Atlantic University conference champion.

Sarah Mitton of the claimed gold with a distance of 15.09 metres. Morris, of Miramichi, took 16th spot in the women’s high jump. She was unable to jump the 1.55-metre high bar. Morris was the AUS conference champ.

Maja Naruszewicz of Guelph captured gold with a 1.74-metre jump.

Miramichi’s Sydney MacDonald, competing for the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds, finished 11th in the women’s pentathlon with a score of 3,156 points.

Veronique Omalosanga of Moncton, a member of the , ran in the women’s 4x200-metre relay preliminaries and helped her school qualify for the final. Laval took eighth place overall.

Moncton’s Shawna McKay ran in the prelims for the in the women’s 4x200-metre relay.Dalhousie placed ninth overall. Times&Transcript_12_3_18

Fredericton’s Andrew LeBlanc claimed bronze in the men’s 1,000 metres in 2:28.66 for the . He also won gold in the men’s 4x800- metre relay with Guelph.

Fredericton’s Jack Berkshire, competing for the , placed fourth in the men’s in 34.59.