WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University men's and women's track and field teams get one final tune-up before next weekend's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships, as the Cardinals head across town to Paul Giel Field on Saturday to take part in the Winona State Warrior Challenge.
 
Cardinals' Last Action:
• May 4, 2016  * Mankato, Minn.: David Kemper narrowly missed the school record, winning the men's pole vault by clearing 4.40 meters at the non-team-scored, Minnesota State-Mankato Maverick Twilight. Jovan Newsum, coming off a record-setting performance in the 5,000 at Macalester last Thursday, posted the Cardinal men's second first-place showing, winning the 1,500 with a time of 4:02.65 | Recap
 
Up Next:
• The Cardinals head to Collegeville, Minn., next Friday and Saturday to take part in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships, hosted by Saint John's.
 
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• The Cardinals collected a pair of first-place finishes at the Minnesota State-Mankato Maverick Twilight on Wednesday— David Kemper narrowly missed the school record in winning the men's pole vault (4.40 meters), while Jovan Newsum posted a winning time of 4:02.65 in the 1,500. … Newsum broke the school's 16-year-old record in the 5,000 at the Macalestser Bolstorff Twilight on April 28, posting a second-place time of 14:49.86—nearly nine seconds faster than the previous mark, set by Ryan Bickler in 2000. … Bryan Ortman chipped in a second-place leap of 13.57 in triple jump for the Cardinal men at the Maverick Twilight, while Desmond Steward was fourth (13.40m) and Jacob Hagen-Erickson (11.99m) was sixth. … Other top men's performances in Mankato included: Jared Wolt finished fifth in the 800 (2:08.42) and Austin O'Hare recorded a sixth in the 1,500 (4:14.57), while James Davis was sixth in the 200 (22.16) and eighth in the 100 (11.29), and Morris Dennis finished eighth in the 200 (22.96). Gordy Paulman chipped in a seventh in the pole vault (3.80m) and Luis Avila chipped in an eighth in the long jump (6.21m) and a ninth in the 400 (54.45). … Clare Siska posted a fourth-place time of 73.63 in the 400 hurdles for the Cardinal women, while Erica Thiel clocked a time of 19:50.49 to place fourth in the 5,000. Kynzie Smedsrud placed seventh in the 100 hurdles (17.01), Allie Thiel was eighth in the 1,500 (5:14.50), Natalie King was ninth in the hammer (38.10m), and  Molly Abraham and Olivia Kostueck were 10^th in the 400 (68.43) and hammer (30.81m), respectively. … Dennis, Davis, Brandon Krogman, and Andrew Allemann shattered the school record in the 4x400 relay with a fifth-place time of 3:22.75 at the Phil Esten Challenge on April 22. … The Cardinals boasted a pair of all-conference performers at the MIAC Indoor Championships in March. Dennis shattered his own school record in the 400, for the second time this year, placing third with a time of 49.46—four-tenths of a second faster than his previous school mark. Missurelli, meanwhile, broke her own school record in the pole vault, clearing 3.35 meters to place second. … Ortman earned honorable-mention all-conference honors in both the triple jump and the long jump, placing fourth and sixth, respectively. … Davis, Krogman, and Becca Dup also collected honorable-mention All-MIAC honors at the indoor championships, with Davis placing fourth in the 200, and Krogman and Dup adding sixths in the 600 and long jump, respectively. … Davis set the school record in the indoor 200 at the UW-Stevens Point Big Dawg Invitational, stopping the clock in 22.71, while Krogman became the new school record-holder in the 800, breaking the tape in 1:58.74. … Dennis became coach Niels Anderson's first national qualifier, as the then-freshman earned a spot in the 400 at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor National Championships.