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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (2/28/2015) -- Senior Hana Hunt won the pentathlon and the Distance Medley Relay (DMR) successfully defended its league title for the University of Detroit Mercy women's track and field team Saturday during the first day of the 2015 Horizon League Indoor Championships, being held at Youngstown State University at the WATTS facility.

Detroit earned 22 points during the first day of the indoor championships and is just seven points out of second place in the team standings. Milwaukee leads the championships with 34 points, while Oakland and Youngstown State are tied for second place with 29 points.

The Titans got off to a great start Saturday behind a pentathlon victory from Hunt. Hunt set a new PR in the pentathlon, finishing with 3,189 points, 84 points better than the second-place finisher. 

Hunt won the 800-meter run with a time of 2:31.11 in her final pentathlon event to clinch the victory. Hunt also finished second in the high jump (1.58m/5'2.25") and placed third or better in four of the five events. She was third in the shot put (9.22m/30'3") and tied for third in the long jump (4.92m/16'1.75").

Detroit repeated as indoor conference champions in the DMR, finishing in a time of 11:59.87 to earn 10 points. The team of senior Sara Taylor, freshman Elizabeth Mullen, freshman Sydnie Fetherolf and senior Louisa Coppola won the event by more than six seconds. Detroit was in a strong position entering the final leg of the race and Coppola helped propel Detroit to the win by pulling away from the field in the final 1,600 meters.

Senior Lauren Berlin earned two points for the Titans in the weight throw. She finished fifth overall with her best throw reaching 13.58 meters (44'6.75").

Five Titans competed in the 5,000 meter run. Senior Zeinab Baydoun finished just outside of the points, placing eighth with a time of 18:25.34. Freshman Taylor Smith followed in 18:36.94 for Detroit, while sophomore Devon Sutton (19:01.60), freshmen Jenny Ponkowski (19:26.72) and Sydney Shaw (19:58.75) also ran in the event.

Several Titans qualified for Sunday finals after preliminary heats on Saturday. Junior Allison Garner had the second best time at 7.75 in the 60 meter dash, winning her heat. Junior Jessica Doherty also qualified in the 60 meter dash with a time of 7.91. Freshman Alyson Hamilton had a time of 8.07 in the event.

Sophomore Samantha Zakalowski placed second in her heat of the 800 meter preliminaries and had the fourth-best time in the event at 2:19.10.

Junior Alani Letang qualified for the 400 meter dash finals with a time of 58.55 in the preliminaries. Sophomore Jayona Dent was 11th with a time of 59.59, Holmes crossed with a time of 59.71 and Mullen finished the 400 meters in 60.07.

Garner just missed out on qualifying for the 200 meter finals, placing ninth in 25.75, just .01 seconds out of the eighth spot. Freshman Brogan Holmes and Doherty each earned PR's in the event with times of 25.89 and 26.24, respectively.

Letang had a time of 26.15, freshman Alyson Hamilton crossed in 26.90, sophomore Natalie Peterson had a time of 27.66, junior Grace Battista posted a time of 28.55 and sophomore Paige Anderson crossed in 28.82 in the 200 meter dash for Detroit.

Peterson and Anderson each raced in the 60 meter hurdles for the Titans, earning times of 9.52 and 10.13, respectively. Freshman Delaney O'Rourke placed eighth in the weight throw (9.60m/31'6") and junior Alexander Lindig was 14th in the long jump, reaching 4.88 meters (16' 0.25").

The 2015 Horizon League Indoor Championships wrap up Sunday, with events slated to being at 9 a.m. at WATTS. A live video feed of the final day of competition is set to get underway on ESPN3.com at 12:55 p.m.