PORTLAND, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College women's track & field posted three top-three finishes and celebrated their six seniors on Day 2 of the L&C Larry Byerly Invite on Saturday. 
 
THE BASICS
 
Lewis & Clark – 5^th out of 29 Teams – 46 Points
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Freshman Malia Heien won the 400m and junior Macy O'Hara and sophomore Cameryn Nagaji posted third-place finishes to lead the Pioneers in their final tune-up before the Northwest Conference Championship Meet. 
 
After the meet concluded, Lewis & Clark honored the six member of their senior class: Sean Bodi, Sarah Carney, Hanna Callinan, Gillian Pifer, Andrew Scott and Elijah Woody. The six student-athletes took one last run around the track as a group and then were celebrated by their teammates and coaches.
 
Heien broke the one-minute mark in the 400m for the first time in her collegiate career to defeat a field of 29-runners. Her time of 59.28 was just under .5 seconds faster than the second-place finisher from Western Oregon. Freshman Elsie Chin took 15^th in the event with a time of 1:04.98. 
 
O'Hara took third in the 200m with a PR time of her own. She broke 26 seconds in the 200m for the first time in her career with a time of 25.96. Freshman Miriam Reside placed 39^th with a mark of 31.32. 
 
Nagaji led a quartet of Pioneers in the triple jump. The reigning Northwest Conference Champion in the event posted the second-best mark of her season to place third overall. Her final jump of the day traveled 10.63m (34-10.50 feet) to put in her in third behind athletes from Multnomah and Southern Oregon. Sophomore Olivia Farrar placed fifth in the event with a jump of 10.36m (34-00.00 feet). Freshmen Anli Davis and Alma Williams finished in 15^th and 16^th after jumps of 9.19m (30-02.00 feet) and 8.82m (28-11.25 feet). 
 
Freshman Piper McCoy Harmon led three Lewis & Clark throwers in the shot put. McCoy Harmon finished fifth out of 33 entrants with a throw of 11.45m (37-06.75 feet). Fellow freshman Nia Pile came in just behind her, as Pile's best throw of 10.87m (35-08.00 feet) put her in seventh place. Freshman Autumn Loporto came in 18^thwith a heave of 9.44m (30-11.75 feet). 
 
McCoy Harmon also led the Pioneers in the discus throw. She posted a mark of 33.38m (109-06 feet) to finish 15^th. Freshman Reilyn Sabado came in 27^th with a throw of 29.50m (96-09 feet). 
 
Williams led three Pios in the long jump. She placed 22^nd with a leap of 4.34m (14-03.00 feet). Davis came in just behind her in 24^th with a mark of 3.96m (13-00.00 feet). Sophomore Bethany Ballesteros made her season debut and jumped 3.32m (10-10.75 feet) to take 27^th. 
 
Sophomore Riley Buese led eight Lewis & Clark runners in the 1,500m. She ended the race in 19^th with a time of 4:48.19. Freshman Clare Lucey took 35^th place when she crossed the line in 4:59.11. Reside and sophomore Maggie Martin were the next two Pioneers to finish with Reside (5:28.32) edging Martin (5:29.25) by less than a second. Freshman Madeleine Boyle (5:41.13) took 59^th place and fellow freshman Tara Elsa (5:48.34) placed 61. Pifer (5:54.77) and junior Macy Carroll (6:02.22) were the final two Pioneers in the event. 
 
Lucey paced four Pioneers in the 800m. She came in 31^st place with a time of 2:35.50. Junior Katya Schwieterman crossed the line in 2:37.55 to finish in 34^th. Reside (2:40.08) and Elsa (2:49.65) rounded out the Lewis & Clark quartet. 
 
Carney finished in 20^th place in the 100m hurdles with a time of 20.21. In the 400m hurdles, Carroll (1:21.82) and Carney (1:22.83) ended the race in 17^th and 19^th places. 
 
The Pioneers had one relay team compete on Saturday. The 4x100m relay team of Carney, Farrar, Chin and Reside came in eighth place with a time of 55.62. 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Heien's time in the 400m ranks sixth in program history and is the third-best mark in the NWC this season. Chin's time in the 400m (1:04.98) is the 40^th-fastest time in program history. 
• O'Hara's time in the 200m (25.96) moves her up into eighth in program history. She goes into the NWC Championship Meet with the fourth-best time in the conference this year. 
• McCoy Harmon posted a PR mark of over 2 feet in the shot put to move into eighth place in program history in the event (11.45m). Pile added a PR of her own and now sits in 16^th with a mark of 10.87m. Loporto moved into 33^rd in program history with her PR throw of 9.44m. 
• Buese is now 11^th in program history in the 1,500m (4:48.19) after shaving over a second off her PR time. Lucey joined her in the top-30 in the event after her time of 4:59.11 moved her into 26^th place. 

WHAT'S NEXT 
 
The Pioneers will travel to Salem, Oregon on Friday and Saturday for the 2023 Northwest Conference Championship Meet. Both men's and women's track & field enter the weekend sitting on seven team points, after this past week's NWC Multis Event.