WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota track and field teams head across town on Saturday, taking part in the Winona State Invitational at Paul Giel Field.
 
The Winona State Invitational Field:
• Concordia-St. Paul, Saint Mary's, Minnesota State and Winona State.
 
Cardinals' Last Action:
• Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.) and Maya Booker (St. Paul, Minn.) each collected first-place finishes to pace the Cardinals at the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bear Invitational and St. Thomas Tommie Twilight Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn. | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals close out the outdoor portion of their schedule next weekend, heading to St. Paul, Minn., to take part in the two-day Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships, hosted by Macalester.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2015 Men's Roster | 2015 Women's Roster | 2015 Schedule | Record Book
• Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.) and Maya Booker (St. Paul, Minn.) each picked up first-place finishes Wednesday, with Dennis winning the 400 (49.34) at the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bear Invitational, while Booker uncorked a throw of 45.66 to win the hammer throw at the Tommie Twilight. … Bryan Ortman (Chicago, Ill.) and Brandon Krogman (Owatonna, Minn.) also posted top 10 finishes for the Cardinal men—Ortman's coming in the long jump (seventh, 6.04 meters) and Krogman's in the 800 (ninth, 2:01.67)—while Laura Schommer (Hutchinson, Minn.) chipped in a second-place effort in 400 (59.82) and Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) finished seventh in the pole vault, breaking the school record by clearing 3.36 meters for the Cardinal women. … The Cardinals collected 14 Top 10 finishes at last Saturday's Saint Mary's Open, led by Ortman, who delivered a leap of 12.75 meters to place second in the triple jump. … Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) added a third in the long jump (6.69 meters) and a fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.44), and Schommer tallied a third in the 200 (26.13) in the Cardinals' lone home meet of the season. … Other top performances for the Cardinals at the Saint Mary's Open included: Tyler Kircher (Cashton, Wis.) finished fifth in the hammer throw with a toss of 48.68 meters in the home meet of his collegiate career, with Ortman and Jacob Hagen-Erickson (Austin, Minn.) chipping in sixth-place efforts in the long jump with identical 6.31-meter performances. The Cardinals swept the sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-place spots in the triple jump, as Ryan Buchmeier (St. Paul, Minn.), Gordy Paulman (DeForest, Wis.), and Phil Emmerich (Mondovi, Wis.) notched leaps of 11.23, 11.11, and 10.84, respectively. Aaron Haley (Plainview, Minn.) chipped in a sixth in the 5,000 (16:12.81) and Emmerich also added a seventh in the javelin (44.81 meters). Missurelli and Mary Hayes (Chicago, Ill.) also got into the Top 10 act, placing eighth in the pole vault (3.22) and 10th in the 1,500 (5:41.52). … The Cardinals broke three school records at the Phil Esten Challenge on April 17—giving Saint Mary's four new outdoor school marks this season. … Jovan Newsum (Glendale Heights, Ill.) broke the school's 10,000 mark with a time of 32:04.45—it was the second straight year that record has been broken at the Phil Esten Challenge. … Morris Dennis (Elk River, Minn.) posted one of the top times in NCAA Division III this season in shattering the Cardinal record in the 400 with a time of 58.45 at the Phil Esten Challenge, while Maria Missurelli (Franklin, Wis.) cleared 3.25 meters to etch her name in the record books in the pole vault. … Ross Kinderman (Onalaska, Wis.) owns the Cardinals' other new school mark this season, breaking the school record in the 110 hurdles at the Lee Krough Invitational on April 11, stopping the clock in 15.19. … The Cardinals are coming off an indoor season in which they broke six school records at the MIAC Indoor Championships. … Kinderman broke his own school record in the 60-meter hurdles, stopping the clock in 8.56 seconds, while Dennis equaled Kinderman's third-place, all-conference performance in the 400 at the indoor conference championships—also in record-setting fashion—stopping the clock in 50.18, and shattering the seven-year-old mark of 50.83, set by John Kelly in 2008. … Missurelli (pole vault, 3.32 meters), Schommer (60, 8.08), and Krogman (600, 1:25.30) also broke school records at the conference indoor championships. … Krogman, Dennis and Kinderman also teamed with Tyler Fiebig (Baraboo, Wis.) to rewrite the Cardinal record book with a sixth-place time of 3:29.36 in the 4x400 relay.