PITTSBURG, Kansas -- Midwestern State junior Jaylen Hogue improved on a school record while earning an NCAA Division II qualifying mark Saturday afternoon in the Pittsburg State Invitational at Robert W. Plaster Center.

Hogue's performance was just one of 14 personal bests for the Mustangs and the first of two school record efforts as the 4x400-meter relay squad moved closer to a provisionally qualifying mark of its own.

Hogue took .01 seconds off of her previous best mark to run a 24.64 finishing second behind Mid-America Nazarene's Nikiwe Mongwe, who ran a 24.41.

The time matched the 16th-best in NCAA Division II coming into the weekend and was one of five PRs set by Midwestern State in the 200-meter dash.

Sophomore Kennedy Smith placed 22nd with a 25.65 followed by sophomore Daiza Jones (26.12/33rd), freshman Trell'Kyrah Watkins (26.19/34th), and freshman Da'shrana Sims (26.63/46th).

MSU 4x400-meter squad of Jones, Jadyn Dangerfield Moore, Nathalia Escontrias, and Sims placed sixth overall and third amongst a tight pack of three NCAA Division II opponents.

The time of 3:55.56 improved the school indoor record by nearly two seconds as the Mustangs narrowly finished the race behind Pittsburg State (3:53.84/4th) and Oklahoma Baptist (3:54.39/5th) just off the provisional time of 3:35.36.

Escontrias, who owned the top 800-meter time in the LSC coming into the weekend, delivered the fifth-best 1-mile time in program history taking 20th overall finishing in 5:16.92, while sophomore Arianna Carballeira also set a personal best time of 5:29.22 to place 31st.

Senior Peyton Lewis improved on her own MSU indoor record to place 10th in the long jump with a mark of 17 feet, 7 inches. She also placed 13th in the triple jump with a leap of 36 feet and 3/4 inches.

Junior Emily Hurst cleared 5 feet and 3/4 inches to set a new program record while taking fifth in the high jump.

Dangerfield Moore added another strong showing in the 800-meter run by placing 14th with a time of 2:20.88.

Senior Elizabeth Butzke's PR time of 10:35.51 not only earned her a 15th-place showing in the 3,000-meter run, but landed her eighth on the program's all-time performance chart.

Fellow senior Alexandra Feller (10:43.68/20th) along with freshman Mariana Sanchez (10:58.38/25th), junior Sydney MacDonald (11:04.76/28th), and freshman Rosalene Reyes Perez (11:05.70) also ran personal best times in the 3,000-meter run.

Midwestern State competes in the Washburn Open Friday and Saturday in Topeka.

Pittsburg State Invitational

Robert W. Plaster Center
Pittsburg, Kansas

Midwestern State Track Results

60-Meter Dash (Qualifying Round): 6. Kennedy Smith, 7.83; 7. Steveanna Hearn, 7.85*; 24. Corinne Thorpe, 8.01.
60-Meter Dash (Preliminaries): 18. Kennedy Smith, 7.84; 22. Steveanna Hearn, 7.90.
200-Meter Dash: 2. Jaylen Hogue, 24.64*; 22. Kennedy Smith, 25.65*; 33. Daiza Jones, 26.12*; 34. Trell'Kyrah Watkins, 26.19*; 36. Steveanna Hearn, 26.33; 46. Da'shrana Sims, 26.63*.
400-Meter Dash: 26. Trell'Kyrah Watkins, 1:00.01*.
800-Meter Run: 14. Jadyn Dangerfield Moore, 2:20.88.
1-Mile Run: 20. Nathalia Escontrias, 5:16.92*; 31. Arianna Carballeira, 5:29.22*.
3,000-Meter Run: 15. Elizabeth Butzke, 10:35.51*; 20. Alexandra Feller, 10:43.68; 25. Mariana Sanchez, 10:58.38*; 28. Sydney MacDonald, 11:04.76*; 32. Rosalene Reyes Perez, 11:05.70*.
5,000-Meter Run: 21. Cori Morgan, 20:04.78*.

Midwestern State Field Results

High Jump: 5. Emily Hurst, 5-0.75.
Pole Vault: 17. Delaini Hanna, 9-1.
Long Jump: 10. Peyton Lewis, 17-7.
Triple Jump: 13. Peyton Lewis, 36-0.75.

Midwestern State Relay Results

4x400-Meter Relay: 6. Midwestern State (Daiza Jones, Jadyn Dangerfield Moore, Nathalia Escontrias, Da'shrana Sims), 3:55.36.

* - denotes personal record.