Personal record setting seemed to be the order of the day for the women's track team Sunday at George Mason's Last Chance Invitational.

Stacy Frank threw a lifetime best in the 20-pound weight (51'7") for second place.

Coach Teri Jordan called the sophomore's performance exceptional and saw it as a major breakthrough for Frank to throw over 50'.

"The meet was low-key and I wasn't nervous," Frank said. "I finally got everything together. I was on with the ball and everything was working well."

Last year, Frank's best throw was 39'11". At the beginning of this season she set a goal to break 45', and now she has upped her goal to 55'. On Friday she will compete in the USA/TAC National Championships in New York City; the NCAA does not include the 20-pound weight throw in its indoor championship.

The three top Lady Lions in the 5,000 meter run all set personal records. Junior Carol Davis placed second (17:59.05), sophomore Kendra Mathias finished fifth (18:19.19) and sophomore Chris Hess (18:53.04) was seventh.

Senior Stacy Prey had been hoping to improve her NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 5,000 meters (16:22.88) to an automatic qualifying time Sunday, but decided to take the weekend off to rest a sore hip. She will compete at home Saturday in Penn State's own Last Chance Invitational.

Davis also set a personal record in the 3,000 meters (10:27.23) for sixth place. "Usually people don't do that (set two personal records) in one day," Jordan said.

Junior Wendy Nelson qualified for ECACs in the 3,000 meters, placing second (9:57.04) and junior Leslee Martin was fourth (10.08.99).

Another lifetime best came from freshman Dawn Eidson in the 1,000 (3:00.37) for fourth place. Freshman Cesca Lyons followed closely with (3:00.44) in fifth place.

Sophomore Laurie Morrow qualified for ECACs in the mile run (4:58.45) to take second place.

Morrow also led the 3,200-meter relay team to victory with her lifetime best split (2:10.90) as the anchor."I was really focused throughout the race. Only George Mason was near us so I didn't have to worry about tripping or being boxed in. Basically, I just ran by myself," she said.

Having come within less than two seconds of the NCAA provisional qualifying mark last weekend at the Florida Invitational, the team was looking for 8:54.00 or better on Sunday.

This time, they missed it by just .65 of a second.

"It's hard to catch everyone at their best at one time," Jordan said. Though the current team of junior Teressa DiPerna, senior Pam Connell, sophomore Mary Beth Powers and Morrow might not get another chance to run this event together, Jordan is hopeful that they might go to nationals regardless.

Since just seven of the 10 spots at nationals have been filled and the relay team has posted several times close to the qualifying mark, it may get one of the remaining spots, Jordan said.

The 1,600-meter relay team also placed first (3:49.75), but did not come any closer to provisionally qualifying for nationals.