NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's track and field team compiled 26 top-five performances, including seven first-place results, at the unscored Ole Opener on Saturday at Tostrud Center.

St. Olaf won five events on the track and two field events at the first of back-to-back home meets to end the month. Junior Kevin Turlington, senior Olaf Coffey, and first year Cristian Escobar Pearson all posted the top times in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) in an event on the track at the meet.

Turlington was the top finisher in the 3,000-meter run in 8:25.90, which ranks eighth in NCAA Division III this season and moved the junior up from 10th to seventh on St. Olaf's all-time list in the event, in addition to being the MIAC's top time to date. Senior Sean Hartney and junior Parker Max joined Turlington in the top four with Hartney in third (8:40.42) and Max in fourth (8:42.45).

St. Olaf posted the top-four times of the day – and in the MIAC this season – in the 1,000-meter run, led by Coffey's time of 2:33.38. First year Jackson Bullock (2:33.98), sophomore Christian Fells (2:34.24), and sophomore Ethan Cozine (2:37.17) rounded out the 1-4 finish for the Oles.

First year Jakob Eenigenburg raced to a win in the 400-meter dash in 52.30 seconds, which ranks second in the MIAC, while first year Gavin Vogel was third (53.14) with a top-three MIAC time. Junior Zach Martin  (2:00.06) edged first year Austin McInturff (2:01.32) to win the 800-meter run, while both were part of St. Olaf's first-place 4x400-meter relay (3:32.29) along with Fells and sophomore Henry Johnson.

Senior Eh Ler Moo and first year Kale Kardonsky accounted for St. Olaf's two first-place results in field events. Moo won the long jump by four inches with a mark of 6.46 meters (21' 2 ½") on his fourth attempt after needing a mark on his third jump to earn three more tries. Kardonsky broke onto St. Olaf's all-time list in the shot put in 10th with a winning throw of 14.54 meters (47' 8 ½").

After grabbing a spot on St. Olaf's all-time list in the 60-meter hurdles in his first collegiate meet, first year Cristian Escobar Pearson bettered that fourth-place time by one one-hundredth of a second in the prelims (8.59) before finishing as the runner-up in the finals (8.62). Escobar Pearson's prelims' time is the fastest in the MIAC this season.

Sophomore Max Albertson was the runner-up in the triple jump (13.31m, 43' 8") with the second-best mark in the conference so far and moved to sixth on the program's all-time list in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.18 seconds in the prelims. Albertson went on to place third in the finals (7.19).

St. Olaf will be back at the Tostrud Center for the St. Olaf Invitational & Multi on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24-25.