LEXINGTON, Va. - The Lenoir-Rhyne Track and Field Team made its return to Virginia Military Insitute for the second weekend in a row. 

Throughout the weekend, the Bears were led by a group of three women who placed in the top 10 for two unique events: Olivia Jackson, Marlesia Walker and Savannah Nippa. 

In the women's weight throw, Jackson took a third-place finish with a toss of 14.72 meters. Walker, the junior from Kankakee, Ill., finished seventh with a new season-best throw of 13.96 meters while Nippa generated a new personal best throw of 12.65 meters to round out the top 10. 

In the women's shot put, the three finished consecutively on the leaderboard with Jackson, Walker and Nippa garnering eighth, ninth and 10th place results, respectively. Jackson, the senior from Cherokee, N.C., recorded a toss of 11.3 meters while Walker produced a season-best throw of 10.33 meters. Nippa, the senior from Sanibel Island, Fla., finished just a shade behind Walker with a 10.29-meter throw. 

For other events in the field, Pearl Ballard recorded a fourth-place finish in the women's pole vault with a 3.22-meter result. That height is a new season best for the junior out of Hendersonville, N.C. 

Ellis Horton recorded the best individual result for the Bears in Lexington with his second-place finish in the men's weight throw. The senior from Mount Pleasant, N.C., recorded a toss of 16.06 meters, the best throw amongst all Division II participants. 

Although it was not a busy weekend on the track for the Bears, LR was able to produce two top five finishers in men's 60-meter hurdles. The pair of freshmen, Nick Tibolla and Liam Sutton, registered third and fifth-place results with times of 8.25 and 8.56, respectively. 

The Lenoir-Rhyne Men's and Women's Track and Field Teams will return to action for the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational. The two-day event hosted by Liberty University will begin on Friday, Feb. 9.