TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Southeast Missouri track and field teams opened their season winning eight events at the John Gartland Invitational hosted by Indiana State Friday night. 

Included in the event wins was Brianna Dixon who set a new SEMO indoor record in the high jump reaching 5-10 to take the title. 

Event Winners
Marshall Swadley won the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 65-9.5 and later captured the shot-put title with another PR of 60-10.5.

John Hartmann claimed first place in the high jump after clearing a personal-best height of 6-9.5.

Clara Billing earned the pole vault victory with a height of 12-11.75.

Kale Clements won the 800 meters in 2:26.4 during her first collegiate meet.

Sydney Burdine captured the 400-meter title with a time of 56.09.

Madelyn Gray won the mile with a time of 5:04.6.
 
Top Three Finishers
Sullivan Gleason placed third in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-2.75.

Dixon followed up her win with a second-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles, running 8.72.

The women's 4x400-meter relay team of Burdine, Jasmine McClelland, Clements, and Gray finished second in 4:10.1.

The men's 4x400-meter relay team of Marcus Gordon, Jon'David White, Jackson Witvoet, and Connor Moore placed third with a time of 3:31.4.

Byron Sowerby earned a runner-up finish in the 3,000 meters, clocking 9:02.7.

Jonas Davis finished third in the 200 meters with a time of 22.54.

McClelland placed second in the women's 200 meters, running 25.77.

Moore finished second in the 400 meters with a time of 50.93.

Trenton Braswell placed second in the weight throw with a mark of 65-4.75.

Liberty Blackburn earned second place in the high jump with a clearance of 5-4.25.

Luke Busateri finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 46-11.

Andreese Ortiz finished in third in the shot put reaching 45-10 for a new personal best throw.
 
Other Notable Performances 
Ortiz placed fourth in the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 58-3.25.

Alyssa Repke finished fifth in the weight throw with a mark of 55-5 while competing in her first collegiate meet.

Colin Beers earned a fifth-place finish in the pole vault after clearing 15-11.

Aarion Jackson placed fifth in the long jump with a leap of 22-3.5.

Matt Pluff recorded a mark of 22-1 in the long jump during his first collegiate competition.

White placed sixth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.33. Marcus Gordon Jr. followed closely with a seventh-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at 8.35.

Jackson Witvoet finished sixth in the 200 meters with a time of 22.8 and also placed sixth in the 60 meters at 7.11.

Micah Grawer earned fifth place in the mile with a time of 4:26.12.

McClelland also finished sixth in the 60 meters with a time of 7.75 and Burdine placed seventh in 7.83.

Zavier Winton finished eighth in the weight throw with a mark of 55-5.

Bailie Hux placed seventh in the weight throw with a throw of 53-11.

Elliana Rhinehart finished ninth in the weight throw with a mark of 51-5.75.

Braswell added a fifth-place finish in the shot put with a mark of 52-2.5.

Mark Goldman placed eighth in the shot put with a throw of 47-11.75.

Quinton rounded out the shot put with a ninth-place finish at 46-2.
 
The meet will wrap up Saturday starting at 11 a.m. The Redhawks will have Luis Schadlich and Kannon Harlow finishing up the men's heptathlon. Anna Thomason will compete in the women's pentathlon.