TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Bates College junior Vantiel Elizabeth Duncan finished sixth in the weight throw for her second career All-America honors, while senior teammate Izzy Alexander qualified for the finals in the 800-meter run on Friday at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Duncan of Topsham recorded a top throw of 53 feet, 4 inches in the 20-pound weight throw, the same event she finished eighth last year. Her All-America award becomes the 40th earned by a Bates athlete coached by throwing coach Joe Woodhead. Duncan will also compete in the shot put.

Alexander of Harvard, Mass., meanwhile, virtually assured herself a fourth career All-America award by qualifying for the finals in the 800. Her preliminary heat time of 2:13.74 was the fourth best in the 11-athlete field, and it slices 0.13 seconds off of her own Bates record. Alexander will become a four-time All-American merely by finishing the race in tomorrow’s final, which will include eight runners.

Other Maine athletes:

• Bethany Dumas, a freshman at Southern Maine from Augusta, finished 16th in the women’s pole vault with a height of 11-.

• Jordan Beall of Lewiston, who graduated from Leavitt Area High School, placed fifth in the women’s long jump to earn All-America honors. Beall attends Emory University in Atlanta.

• Clare Franco of Brunswick, a freshman at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., finished 12th in the women’s 400. Her time of 58.35 broke her school record.