GORHAM, Maine  -- Senior Melissa Bellemore (Manchester, N.H./West) of the University of Southern Maine women's indoor track and field team has been recognized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) for her outstanding performance during the week of February 5-11, being named the ECAC Division Three Field Athlete of the Week. 
    
Competing at the New England Alliance and Little East Conference Championships this past Saturday (February 10), Bellemore won three events and placed in another to help the Huskies sweep the two titles for the seventh consecutive year.
    
This is the second time this season that Bellemore has been the recipient of the ECAC weekly honor.  She was named Little East Conference Women's Field Athlete of the Week for the third time this winter, and for the 10th time in her career, earlier in the week.
    
Bellemore won the pole vault for the fourth straight year by clearing 11 feet, 2 1/2 inches, the long jump with a leap of 16-0 1/2, and the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 9.03 seconds in the finals.  She also placed in the triple jump with a jump of 32-1.
    
In the Alliance meet, which featured schools from the Little East Conference and the Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference, Southern Maine captured championship with 184 points.  Keene State College was second with 132 points, followed by Eastern Connecticut State University with 116.50 points, Westfield State College with 71 points, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth rounded out the top five with 60 points.
    
The Huskies took the Little East crown with 191 points, followed by Keene State with 135 and Eastern Connecticut with 129.

Southern Maine will host the New England Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships this Saturday (February 17) at the USM Field House.  The first event, the pentathlon, gets underway at 10:00 a.m.  Throwing and jumping events will start at 11:00 a.m., and the running events begin at 11:30 a.m.