The Washington University men’s and women’s track and field teams finished in fourth and first place, respectively, at the ninth annual Rose-Hulman Engineer Track and Field Invitational Saturday in Terre Haute, Ind.

The women’s side won with a score of 149 points, besting runner-up Monmouth College by 22 points. Despite several top-place finishes, the men’s team came up short, scoring 76 points in the meet and falling behind Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (152.33), Monmouth College (113.33) and Wabash College (103.83).

“I thought our kids did very well,” head coach Jeff Stiles said. “We saw some very positive results from the meet even though [senior runner] Michael Burnstein was out with pneumonia…Overall it was a great invitational for us.”

Highlights on the women’s side included the performance of senior Erica Jackey, who won the one mile run with a time of 4:59.21, setting an invitational meet record and ranking second-fastest on the women’s mile time in school history.

“I started the mile on a good pace,” Jackey said. “I didn’t [expect to break] my record, but when [Coach Stiles] gave me the signal to finish hard, I knew that I could probably do it. It’s always great to get a new personal best.”

Sophomore Jasmine Williams also shone on the women’s side, winning the long jump, recording a season-best height of 5.32 meters, and breaking the invitational’s five-year-long record of 5.24 meters. Williams also participated in two other events, placing second in both the women’s high jump (1.63 meters) and the 200-meter-dash (27.15 seconds).

“Jasmine has really had a great season so far,” Jackey said. “She’s competed in a lot of events at every meet and placed well in all of them.”

Other impressive finishes included junior Anne Diaz-Arrastia’s first-place finish in the triple jump with a height of 10.57 meters, beating runner-up Monmouth by a centimeter, and her fourth-place finish in the long jump. Sophomore Anna Etherington also performed well, finishing first in the pole vault with a height of 3.50 meters. Freshman Lucy Cheadle won the 3,000-meter dash with a time of 10:16.47.

Though Burnstein couldn’t attend the meet, the men’s team still competed well, finishing with two first-place finishes, three second-place finishes and some season-best records. In the high jump, senior Justin Pieper placed first with a height of 1.95 meters, winning the event for the fourth-straight time this season. In the 3,000-meter dash, the Bears finished with first and second-place finishes. Freshman Andrew Padgett and sophomore Austin Vanbastelaer clocked times of 8:45.22 and 8:55.73, respectively.

Season-bests were recorded in the men’s pole vault as freshmen Troy Makous, Kyle Engelken and Nicholas Alaniva each reached the 4.45-meter mark. In the 60-meter hurdles, senior Tyler Jackson finished second with a time of 8.21 seconds, setting a season-best record and placing fourth in the Division III performance list. In the mile, Freshman Ryan Senci took a second-place finish, clocking a time of 4:25.05.

The Bears look to keep up their success in Bloomington, Ill., on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Bob Keck Invitational. Feeling confident about the team’s performance, Stiles wants his athletes to maintain the same focus that they’ve had so far.

“We’ve just got to keep getting better,” Stiles said. “We need to take care of business—get focused and get ready.”