PITTSBURG, Kan.—Twelve Northwestern State athletes collected personal bests in their second meet of the season at the Pittsburg State Invitational on Saturday.

Among those personal bests were veteran sprinters Sileena Farrell and Kalen Beavers in the 60-meter dash.

Throughout her career, Farrell has improved every single year. Often overlooked due to having some of the best sprinters in collegiate track and field on her team, she has shown the lights are not too bright for her.

"There were a lot of good performances today," head coach Mike Heimerman said. "Sileena looked really good and all the ladies in the 60 did well. The twins did well, considering that finals race should have been called back for a false start. That's why Keontae did have a time he just sat there and the others were late reacting but still ran. They all would have ran faster.

"I think overall it was a very good day considering the last week to week and a half of training weather we had. We are looking forward to getting back to the warm weather since it only got up to 10 degrees here today."

Farrell, a senior from England, made a statement in the 60 prelims, running a personal best 7.36 to comfortably finish first in the event and earn a trip to the finals. She was joined in the finals by Dynia Lewis (7.56) and Juvonna Cornette, who finished fourth and fifth in the prelims, respectively.

While she didn't set another personal best in the finals, she did run a 7.42, which tied her previous personal best, to win the event. Lewis tied a personal best with a time of 7.55 to finish fourth, while Cornette (7.58) finished fifth.

On the men's side, four Demons made the 60-meter finals. Both Beavers twins reached the finals, as well as Keontae Gaines and Eddy Vu.

Kalen Beavers ran a 6.71 to place first in the prelims, as NSU went 1-2 with Gaines (6.72) coming second.

Vu (6.77) and Koen Beavers (6.81) each made the finals, placing fifth and seventh in the prelims.

Randy Kelly ran a personal best with a time of 7.16 in the 60 prelims.

If that wasn't enough for Koen Beavers (6.75), he ran another personal best with a 6.70 in the finals to place second.

Vu (6.73) placed third in the finals and Koen Beavers placed fifth.

In the men's 60-meter hurdles, Brian Fisher (8.22) and Dishaun Lamb (8.31) placed fifth and seventh each advanced to the finals.

Fisher set another personal best with an 8.12 in the event, placing fifth, and Lamb placed seventh with a seventh-place finish.

On the women's side, Silet Gray (8.98) ran an 8.98 to place 11^th, Nia Richards (8.99) came in 12^th and Thea Ring (9.09) finished 14^th.

Cherie Neal ran a personal best 9.25.

Margaret Conteh (55.10) took first in the women's 400-meter dash, leading four in the top 12.

Kahliyah Anderson (55.87) placed fifth and Layden Jack ran an indoor personal best 56.77 to finish ninth.

Dhakiyah Blake (56.98) and Samari Finney (57.18) finished 10^th and 12^th, respectively.

After winning the Southland Conference Male Athlete of the Week, William Achee ran a 47.74 in the 400-meter dash to place fourth.

Kason Jones (48.07) placed sixth and Desmond Duncan (48.17) finished eighth.

In the 4x400 relay, the women's 'A' team ran a 3:41.21, while the 'B' team finished third with a 3:49.29.

On the men's side, the 'A' team ran a 3:09.04 to place second and the 'B' team clocked a 3:15.96 to finish third.

Alaysia Reed ran a 2:28.70 in her first collegiate race in the women's 800-meter run.

Over in the field events, Roy Morris continued a strong start to his sophomore campaign by posting an indoor personal best and finishing first in the long jump.

He jumped a 24-10.5, leading the Demons to have three in the top five. Elijah Rowe (24-6) placed third and Randy Kelly posted a personal best 23-0.5 came in fifth.

In his second career meet, Marquis Butler recorded a 49-3.75 in the triple jump.

On the women's side, Leah Brown recorded a jump of 38-2.25 in the triple jump.

Brown led the way in the high jump for NSU, cleared 5-2.25.

Three Lady Demons finished in the top five in the women's shot put.

Shanice Hutson (46-2.25), Ryah Dates (45-7.75) and Shakera Williams (44-7) came in third through fifth, in order.

Dates tossed a personal best in the women's weight throw, recording a 55-7, finishing fifth.

In the men's shot put, Donroy Brown placed fourth with a toss of 55-1.75, followed immediately by Abner Johnson's personal best (54-11) and La'Darion Dudley (53-6.5).

Johnson also finished eighth in the weight throw with a toss of 57-1.

Samari Finney placed third in the women's long jump with a 19-6.25, while Cherie Neal recorded an indoor best jump of 18-8.

Grace Ross cleared 10-4 in her first official score as a Lady Demon in the pole vault.

Next up is another one-day meet Feb. 7 at the Woo Pig Classic, the third of four indoor meets prior to the Southland Conference Championships, which are Feb. 25-26 in Birmingham, Ala.