NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Competing in the final Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference heptathlon of her collegiate career, Bailey Joens (Osage, Iowa) made sure it was a memorable one Friday afternoon.
 
The Cardinal senior — coming off a stellar opening day in the two-day, seven-event competition — totaled 3,885 points en route to a fourth-place finish. A finish that was just six points back of third-place Stephanie Pickthorn of Saint Benedict, not to mention vaulting Joens to No. 2 in program history — and leaving her in the top 30 in the nation.
 
Joens opened Day 2 with an eighth-place leap of 4.57 meters in the long jump, before adding a lifetime-best throw of 28.71 meters for fourth in the javelin, and posting a season PR of 2:43.27 to finish eighth in the 800.
 
On Thursday, Joens kicked things off with a personal-best 17.36 in the 100 hurdles, placing seventh — and things just got better from there. Joens would win both the high jump and the shot put — PRing in both with marks of 1.56 meters and 9.83 meters, respectively — before closing out the day with a second-place, lifetime-best time of 27.29 in the 200.