McMINNVILLE, Ore. – When warm weather arrives, season- and career-best marks usually follow. Such was the case Saturday at Linfield's Maxwell Field, where sunshine and temperatures in the upper 60s greeted nearly 500 athletes at the Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational meet.
 
MEN
Freshman Jacob Tabares blazed to a third-place result in the 200-meter dash in 22.46 seconds. He also placed fifth in the 100 dash in 11.13. Charles Dayton posted a season-best effort in the same event in 11.26.
 
Linfield's 4x100 relay squad, comprised of Peyton Sorenson, Liam Christensen, Dayton and Tabares, recorded a season-best time of 42.82 to place fourth. The men's 4x400 relay, featuring Conner Dooley, Christensen, Luke Niemi and Tabares, was seventh in 3:34.99.
 
Competing in a field of 51 runners, Alex Oathout and Dooley each secured new personal records in the 1,500 run. Oathout was sixth in 3:56.55 while Dooley was eighth in 3:58.55. In the 5,000 run, Devin Harrison clocked 15:52.22 to place fifth.
 
In the field events, Nick Olsen threw the shot 49-1½ to place fourth.
 
WOMEN
Kira Hawaaboo won the long jump with relative ease, posting the fourth-best mark in Division III this spring. The junior heptathlete also captured first place in a field of 37 competitors in the 100-meter dash, turning in a personal-record time of 12.36 seconds. Hawaaboo timed 26.09 in the 200 dash, placing third in a field of 40 challengers, and was seventh in the high jump, leaping 4-10¼.
 
Rachelle Silis was 13th in the 200 with a season-best mark of 26.57. Silis also logged a fourth-place result in the 400 dash in a season-best time of 59.61.
 
Freshman Natalia Freimuth, Lauren Klopic and Klaira Flatt all placed among the top 10 competitors in the 400 hurdles. Freimuth was fourth in 1:10.01, Klopic scored a personal-record time of 1:11.91 and Flatt registered a season-best effort of 1:12.87.
 
In the field events, Sophie Hulke was sixth in the discus with a new personal record of 120-7. Eboni Zehner heaved the javelin a season-best 111-6 to place seventh and Kieryann Mattson was close behind in ninth place at 107-0. Islee Siliga was third in the shot put with a mark 38-2¾.
 
Logan Roberts leaped a season-best 5-0¼ in the high jump to place fourth and Analissa Paresa placed third in the pole vault with a mark of 11-7¼. Jordan Roberts went 34-7 in the triple jump to place third.
 
COMING UP
Linfield heads to Monmouth Saturday to compete in the John Knight Invite.