Senior Marisa Turner had another spectacular performance in a Liberty League Championship and was joined as a meet award winner by classmate Allison Scarf, but St. Lawrence University's women's track and field team couldn't quite catch Rensselaer for the team title at the Merrick-Pinkard Track and Field Complex on Saturday.

RPI ended the Saints' string of four straight outdoor team titles, winning the meet with 266 points with the Saints second with 236 followed by RIT with 140, Vassar with 79, Union with 27 and Bard with 15.

Turner, named the Outstanding Track Performer of the meet accounted for 45 points in the meet with four individual championships and two relay titles and set a meet record in the high jump and was part of a meet record and SLU record in the 4x100. Between the Liberty League indoor and outdoor championships, she has won eight individual titles and three relay championships and set four individual records and two relay marks. Scarf was named the Field Performer of the Meet and accounted for 37 points. She won the triple jump with a 10.83 meter mark, was second to Turner in the long jump with a 5.03 meter jump, was second in the 100 hurdles in 15.84, third in the discus at 37.77 meters, fifth in the shot put and eighth in the javelin.

Turner improved her own record in winning the high jump at 1.65 meters, won the long jump at 5.05 meters, the 200 meters in 25.52 and the 400 in a SLU record 56.34 seconds. She ran second leg on the 4x100 relay which set a SLU and league record with a 48.85 clocking, joining Molly Lennon, Chinelo Asanya and Ketura Mason and anchored the 4x400 relay, joining Lennon, Asanya and Elina Breton to run 4:01.58.

Asanya and Megan Kellogg also had productive days for the Saints as Asanya won the 100 in 12.74 seconds and was third in the 200 in addition to the two relay wins, while Kellogg won the 1500 meters in 4:43.03 and came back later in the day to win the 800 in 2:18.39. Junior Lisa Grohn won the showdown between two of Division III's top 5000 meter runners as she pulled away from RPI's Jamie Lord over the final two laps to win in a league meet record 17:12.32.

Other Saint champions included Hannah Fake, who won the pole vault at 2.83 meters Meghann Wood with a 12.41 meter throw in the shot put and Lennon, who won the 400 hurdles in 65.01.

Mason was second in the 100 and sixth in the 200, Jacqui Ebeling was third in the 400 hurdles with Fake seventh and both Ebeling and Fake scored in the 1010 hurdles with Ebeling sixth and Fake seventh. Anna Breton was seventh in the steeplechase and Miabelle Salzano was third in the 10,000 meters for the other Saint track points.

In field events, Leah Conners was third, Mariah Dignan fourth and Jessica Potter eighth in the hammer, Conners scored with a seventh in the discus, Dignan was fourth and Mikaela Martell seventh in the javelin, Princess Ngwu was eighth in the shot, Morgan Rosser was sixth and Grace Kelly seventh in the high jump and Rosser placed fifth in the triple jump.

The Saints will send select competitors to the Penn Relays with others competing in a Saturday meet at St. John Fisher next weekend. SLU will also host the New York State Collegiate Track Conference multi-event championships starting Sunday and concluding Monday.