The Penn State National Open this weekend at the Multi-Sport Indoor Complex was supposed to be a match-up for the ages with records being smashed left and right on the track and on the field.

For Connie Moore the weekend was a roller coaster ride. Up against the toughest competition she has seen so far this season, Moore's performance was at best mixed.

Moore looked ready to go in warm-ups on Friday night. Sprinting down the straightaway in front of the crowd she looked straight ahead, looking like she was in the zone. Walking back toward the start, Moore relaxed a bit to wave to a friend in the crowd and broke a small smile. After placing first in her preliminary heat of the 60-meters, Moore tweaked a slight knee injury, which bothered her earlier in the season.

Now it was questionable whether Moore would be able to run in Saturday's 200-meters.

But in a last minute decision that surprised everyone, Moore walked onto the track ready to compete in the 200-meters. Even the public address announcer was surprised as she announced the line-up.

"In lane five, it's seven-time All-American Connie Moore, the queen of Penn State track and field. What a surprise folks," she said over the loudspeaker.

Tennessee's Dee Dee Trotter took the race, shattering the indoor facility record with a first place finish of 23.19 seconds.Moore finished third, but still finished with a NCAA automatic qualifying time of 23.43 seconds, something she has never done before in indoor competition.

Next up for Moore, was the 4x400-meter relay. The Nittany Lions squad was in fourth place coming off freshman Briene Simmons third leg of the relay, and Moore pushed hard immediately after taking the baton.

One lap around, she moved into third place. On the first turn of the final lap, Moore pulled up grimacing in pain, unable to finish.

"Even if my knee was sore, I felt that I could press through it for my teammates," she said. "I just left it all out there on the track. I felt a little twinge coming off the turn, and then [my knee] just locked up. I felt good coming off the first 200, I was flowing. But I guess it was too good to be true."

Besides Moore, senior Sara Dougherty turned in a stellar performance on Saturday in the pole vault.

Dougherty set a new personal best and tied the indoor record with a vault of 13 feet 5 inches. The mark propelled Dougherty into first place in the competition, beating out Kira Sims of Akron.

Dougherty's vault is the third best mark in collegiate competition so far this year and is a NCAA provisional qualifying mark.