WINONA, Minn. — A week ago, the Saint Mary's University track and field teams enjoyed a record-setting day at the UW-Eau Claire Invitational, as the Cardinal women shattered three school records en route to their fourth-place overall finish.

School records didn't fall as easily at the UW-Stout Open last Saturday — in fact, they didn't fall at all — but that certainly didn't mean the Cardinals' performance was any less impressive.

Just the opposite.

The SMU women posted 11 top-10 finishes — including second-place efforts from Jenny Folgers (McHenry, Ill.), Megan Mason (Rochester, Minn.) and Amanda Weinmann (Rochester, Minn.) — en route to a fifth-place effort. Jim Bansley (Chicago, Ill.) and Eric Habberstad (Blooming Prairie, Minn.) each raced to seventh-place times to lead the Cardinal men to a ninth-place finish.

"This was another good meet for us on the women's side and some encouraging performances on the men's side," said SMU coach Kirk Nauman. "It is great to see how we are coming along. These strong individual performances are coming at the right time — early in the season. These performances hold a lot of promise for the rest of our indoor and outdoor seasons."

Folgers posted her second in the 55 hurdles, where she recorded a time of 8.90. Mason's second was a 1.52-meter leap in the pole vault, while Weinmann recorded a throw of 11.78 meters in the shot put to also place second.

Autumn Valk (Appleton, Wis.) finished a close third to Folgers in the 55 hurdles, stopping the clock in 9.14, while Maria Roche (New Prague, Minn.) chipped in a fourth-place finish in the 800 (2:23.37), and Katie McIntire (Naperville, Ill. / 55, 7.91) and Alicia Hartung (Menomonie, Wis. / 1,500, 5:16.71) chipped in seventh-place finishes.

On the men's side, Habberstad crossed the finish line in 9.27 to place seventh in the 55, and Bansley clocked a time of 4:21.52 for seventh in the 1,500. Keith Pieschek (Sturgeon Bay, Wis.) added an eighth in the 1,500 (4:27.55) and Bansley was 10th in the 800 (2:07.77).