MENOMONIE, Wis. 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 on 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.
Folgers posted her second in the 55 hurdles, where she posted 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 cross 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).