THE EVENT
SMU at Stout Open

January 31, 2004

at Stout
Open
THE RESULTS
Men's Results / Click here
Women's Results / Click here

Second-place finishes carry Cardinal women to 5th at UW-Stout Open

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).