EUGENE, Ore. (Apr. 27) -- Sarah Kraybill of Seattle Pacific University won for the second week in a row with a career-best time in the 800 meters at the Oregon Invitational track & field meet Saturday at Hayward Field.

Kraybill (Jr., Seattle, Wa./Ballard), a two-time NCAA Division II qualifier, bettered her PR by nearly one second to cross the finish line in 2 minutes, 13.00 second, just ahead of Utah's Tara Hall (2:13.03).

Also coming in first place for SPU was 400-meter hurdler Paul Mach (So., Seattle, Wa./King's), whose time of 53.24 second ranks No. 2 all-time for the Falcons. Alex Moon of Eastern Washington was second in 53.73. Mach ran a leg of the 4 x 400 relay which won for the second straight meet in 3:23.66.

Despite running his best 1500, Nathanael Castle (Sr., Gooding, Id.) was overtaken by Nate Carlson of Saint Martin's down the stretch. Castle improved his qualifying time marginally to 3:53.24 while Carlson prevailed in 3:52.71.

Farther north, at the Western Oregon Open, Jennifer Pyeatt debuted in the 400 hurdles and made the provisional qualifying standard with a second-place time of 63.56 seconds. Pyeatt, coming back from a back injury which sidelined her in 2001, was an All-America in that event as a freshman.

Pyeatt was the race leader through eight hurdles before Western Oregon's Cassie Moorhouse surged past to win in 63.06.

In the women's shot put at Eugene, Dionna Anderson's (Sr., Lynnwood, Wa./Edmonds-Woodway) four-meet win streak was snapped as she finished fourth. Her best throw was 43 feet, 5 inches. Oregon's Mary Etter won at 47-7 3/4.

Jawea Harder (Sr., Port Twonsend, Wa.) ran one of her best 400 hurdle races in 62.47 seconds yet took sixth. Ally Studer (So., Redmond, Wa./Redmond) cleared a season-best 11-5 3/4 in pole vault to improve her provisional mark and finish second in the day session.

Rachel Ross (Sr., Kennewick, Wa.), first boxed in and later bothered by a tight calf muscle, placed seventh in the twilight 1500 in a season-best4:33.18. She later scratched from the 800, where she is undefeated, and the long relay, which then did not run.

Next Saturday in Bellingham, Seattle Pacific seeks to defend its women's team title in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships.