Feb. 6, 2015

Track & Field | Roster | Twitter | Day 1 Results

LINCOLN, Neb. - In the first of two days at University of Nebraska's Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, Missouri State set several personal records in a field full of national powers.

Holly Pattie-Belleli, Haley Scott, and Cassandra Schwab all set personal bests with their point totals in the pentathlon. Pattie-Belleli placed third with 3497 points, Scott finished in fourth with 3394 points, and Schwab earned a seventh-place finish with 2830 total points.

Each of the three pentathletes set career marks in the individual components of the five-event competition. Pattie-Belleli jumped 1.57 in the high jump for a PR, tying Scott's 1.57m in the process. Schwab also set a high jump personal-record with her 1.48-meter height, and added a 60M indoor PR with a time of 9.78. Scott raised her career best long jump mark to 5.64m and lowered her 800-meter best to 2:33.14.

Four Bears competed in the 60m dash prelims. Chelsey Borders led the way for MSU with her 7.63, followed by Marissa Kurtimah (7.77), Shavonne Husbands (7.81), and Chelsie Horton (7.95).

Oarabile Babolayi was a few hundredths of a second off of her best 60m hurdles time, when she raced an 8.77 in the prelims. Pattie-Belleli followed up her pentathlon performance with a 9.25 in the 60-meter hurdles.

Babolayi also ran in the 400m dash finals, placing 14th with a time 56.77. Kadisha Francois finished the event in 58.81.

Melanie Raterman recorded a distance of 15.20 in the weight throw finals to place 22nd in the event.

The two-day meet in Nebraska will begin again Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The next meet that the Bears will compete in following the Frank Sevigne Husker Invite will be the Purdue Fred Wilt Invitational next weekend on Feb. 14.