ST. PAUL — The Marshall track and field team sent five individuals and four relay teams to the Hamline Elite Meet at Hamline University on Friday, with the team picking up two top-5 finishes and another four top-10 finishes.

Leading the way at the meet was the boys 4×800-meter relay team. Made up of sophomores Samuel Deutz and Mykel Paulsen and juniors Ethan Bly and Josh Leibfried, the team ran a time of 8:05.25. The Tigers edged out third-place Buffalo by just 0.3 seconds while Mankato East’s group of Evan MacLean, Jackson Henkels, Isaiah Anderson and Luke Scholtes took first at 7:56.55.

The Marshall girls also took fourth place in the same event. Freshman Katelyn Leibfried, seniors Allyson Sample and Anna Kuecker and sophomore Taleigha Bigler clocked in at 9:33.82. Minnetonka took first place at 9:14.55 while Wayzata and Hibbing claimed second and third at 9:20.50 and 9:30.47.

As an individual, Sample took 11th place in the 3200 meters with a time of 11:14.27, about three seconds shy of her season-best that she set in Marshall last week and 15 seconds back of her junior year personal best. Hutchinson’s Isabell Schmitz won the event with a season-best time of 10:45.37 while each of the next three finishers — Robbinsdale Armstrong’s Caitlyn Osanai, Champlin Park’s Abigail Hibbs and Rochester John Marshall’s Abigail Tri — set personal bests.

Autumn Deutz placed eighth for Marshall in the pole vault at 10-03, falling just shy of the tiebreaker with Prior Lake’s Annaliese Cundiff and St. Michael-Albertville’s Jacqueline Bergeron for sixth. Roseville Area’s Jayda Wilson won the event at 11-09 while Perham’s Gracie Morris and North Branch’s Ella Dick took second and third at 11-03.

Chioma Onyeaghala was the Tigers’ lone other individual top-10 finisher, placing 10th in the long jump at 15-07.5, just 1.2 inches shy of her PR. Minneapolis Washburn’s Hattie Anderson won the event at 17-01, putting her 5.5 inches ahead of her next closest competitor.

Deutz and Leibfried each also competed individually for Marshall, with Deutz claiming 12th place in the 800 meters at 2:04.92 and Leibfried finishing 16th in the 1600 at 4:36.17. Leibfried was coming off a record-setting performance at St. Peter, when he set a program-best time of 1:57.46 in the 800 meters for Marshall.

Marshall’s girls 4×400-meter relay team of Peyton Boeck, Avery Schneekloth, Katelyn Leibfried and Taleigha Bigler placed ninth at 4:16.12 while the mixed relay team of Boeck, Josh and Katelyn Leibfried and Alex Franson placed seventh at 3:52.09.

Marshall will next compete — weather permitting — in New Ulm today at 4 p.m.