MOORHEAD, Minn. — Ashley Dingels (Gibbon, Minn.) got the Saint Mary's University women's track and field team off to a flying start as the MIAC Championships last weekend, soaring to a conference-record point total en route to winning the heptathlon.

And the sophomore's feet still haven't touched the ground — which was a good thing for the Cardinals.

Dingels posted a pair of second-place efforts in the high jump and the 400 to lead the Cardinal women to an eighth-place finish at the two-day MIAC Championships at Concordia College.

Dingels, who became SMU's first-ever MIAC record-holder when she bested the conference mark in the heptathlon, cleared 5-3 3/4 in the high jump, then raced to a time of 59.76 en route to her two second-place finishes.

SMU's Jenny Folgers (McHenry, Ill.) and Ashley Luehmann (Lewiston, Minn.) also had a hand — or foot — in helping the Cardinals' to their 47.5-point total. Folgers placed second in the 100 hurdles, crossing the finish line in 15.22, while Luehmann placed third in the javelin with a toss of 114-11, just one foot short of her own school record.

Megan Mason (Rochester, Minn.) broke her own school record in the pole vault, finishing fifth with a vault of 10-4 3/4, while Luehmann chipped in a seventh in the discus (116-2) and Folgers and Ellen Koranda (Blue Earth, Minn.) tallied eighth-place efforts in the 400 hurdles (1:07.78) and the 800 (4:55.4), respectively.

The Cardinal men's team settled for an 11th-place showing, as junior Todd Yankowski (Chicago, Ill.) picked up all the team's points with his fourth-place finishes in the decathlon (5,686) and the javelin (158-4).