CEDAR FALLS, IOWA -- The Drake women's indoor track and field team enjoyed its best performance of the season by winning five events at the UNI-Dome Open Friday.

Senior Caitlin Able (Aurora, Colo.) won the 400 in 59.56 seconds and ran the opening leg on the Bulldogs' winning 4x400 relay which was timed in 4:00.51. Other members of the winning relay were junior Beth Hamling (Council Bluffs, Iowa), junior Kara McCartney (Elgin, Iowa) and anchor Clarissa LaFlora (Kewanee, Ill.).

Senior Nicole Braunsdorf (St. Francis, Wis.) won the mile in 4:58.68, while junior Tyse Samani (Kansas City, Mo.) won the high jump at five feet 7 inches.

Junior Ari Curtis (Fort Collins, Colo.) won the 60 hurdles in 9.11 with freshman Sarah Yeager (Ottumwa, Iowa) fifth in 9.13. Curtis and junior Michelle Mitchell (Brookfield, Wis.) tied for third in the jump at 5-3.

Freshman Elle Yesnes (Hopkins, Minn.) was second in the 3,000 in 11:37.40.

Juniors Molly Scott (Kansas City, Mo.) and Johanna Sprang (New Brighton, Minn.) tied for third in the pole vault at 10-11.75. McCartney was fourth in the 800 in 2:17.61, while junior Cambria Pardner (Aurora Colo.) was fourth in the 60 in 8.12.

McCartney was fourth in the 800 in 2:17.61, while LaFlora was fifth in 2:20.43.

Sophomore Megan Pierce-Cramer (Omaha, Neb.) was fifth in the shot put at 40-9.5. Hamling was fifth in the 200 in 26.22. Freshman Kelly Hendricks (Prospect Heights, Ill.) was fifth in the 60 in 8:13 with Hamiling sixth in 8.21. Sophomore Cassie Toepfer (Eagan, Minn.) was sixth in the 400 in 1:02.33.