DULUTH, Minn.: The UW-Superior women's track and field team won three events on the final day of Upper Midwest Athletic Conference Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships and solidified a second-place team finish Saturday at Burns Wellness Commons.
 
The 'Jackets earned 161.5 points on the weekend. St. Scholastica won the team title with 219.5. Minnesota Morris finished third with 137 points, followed by Northwestern (55), Bethany (47) and Crown (23).
 
Superior won the 4x400-meter relay as junior LeAnn Torgerson (Two Harbors, Minn./Two Harbors), senior Valerie Rowe (Ironwood, Mich./A.D. Johnston) and junior Mikaela Shepard (Blaine, Minn./Blaine) and senior Kelli Praska (Eagan, Minn./Eagan) turned in a time of 4:11.26.
 
Individual event titles went to Praska in the 800-meter run in 2:21.42 and junior Maria Mazo (Hendaye, France/Irungo La Salle) in the 60-meter hurdles, as she lowered her own school-record time to 9.30.
 
Rowe broke a school record in the pole vault with a second-place finish. She vaulted 3.15 meters, bettering Shelley Balcer's mark of 3.12 meters from 2006. 
 
Mazo was second in the triple jump with a mark of 9.85 meters, just off of the winning mark from Crown's Mya Hill at 9.99 meters.
 
The 'Jackets also scored 15 points in each of the 60- and 200-meter dashes. Torgerson, Shepard and Rowe went 3-4-5 in the 200 with times of 27.34, 27.36 and 27.71, respectively. In the 60, Rowe finished third in 8.29, Shepard fifth in 8.44, Torgerson sixth in 8.45 and Mazo seventh in 8.49.
 
Senior Michaela Ruhman (Brule, Wis./Northwestern) was also fourth in the 800 meters in 2:30.87 for five more points in that event. 
 
Sophomore Haruka Hamanaka (Izumisano, Japan/Kishiwada) and senior Ali Manthey (Zimmerman, Minn./Elk River) ran sixth and seventh in the 3,000 meters in times of 11:30.40 and 11:43.48.
 
Sophomore Carson Haase (Brandon, S.D./Brandon Valley) was seventh in the shot put with a top heave of 10.44 meters to pace the Superior throwers.
 
UWS next heads to the Pointer Final Qualifier March 2 before the NCAA Championships March 8-9.