PHILADELPHIA – Villanova's final day at the 126^th Penn Relays came with a pair of top-five finishes in the high jump championship and the 4x800 meter Championship of America relay at Franklin Field on Saturday.

Sanaa Barnes had the highest finish of the day with a third-place showing in the high jump. She cleared the bar in one jump at the 1.71, 1.76 and 1.81 marks before missing the height at 1.82, earning third. Her mark of 1.81 meters is the second-highest jump of the season for the Wildcats.

Lydia Olivere, Madison Martinez, Maya Dorer and McKenna Keegan closed the day and the week on the track for Villanova in a 4x800 Relay that saw it go the unit go from eighth in the heart of the race to a fourth-place 8:30.63 finish. Olivere ran a 2:11.20 to put the 'Cats in seventh through her opening leg, handing the baton off to Martinez. Her second leg was four seconds faster than the first, but Villanova slipped down to eighth. Dorer's 2:07.18 split helped the group gain some ground to get back into seventh, handing the race off to Keegan for a massive anchor. The graduate student started catching up to the front of the chase group into her second lap. She surged ahead in the back stretch with a 2:04.07 split, moving up three spots on the leaderboard.

In the shot put championship, Sade Meeks finished 12^th with her best throwing coming in her third attempt at 14.09 meters. She opened the day with a 14.06 attempt before faulting on the second.

Both Taryn Ashby and Olivia Morgan were in the field for the javelin championship. Ashby was sitting eighth in the field through her first three attempts with a 46.43 meter distance in her first throw, landing her a spot in the final. She did not throw higher than 44 meters in the final, maintaining her position for an eighth-place finish. Her 46.43 mark sits as the second-longest of the group this season, just behind her season-high of 46.76. Morgan finished 10^th in the field with her best throw coming in a third attempt that traveled 43.84 meters.

Jane Livingston was two-hundredths of a second shy of posting a new career-best in the 100 meter hurdles championship. She clocked in at 13.57, earning seventh-place.

The Pole vault opened with a 3.73 meter bar clearance for Ashely Preston. She was unable to get a successful attempt at 3.88 meters, landing her in sixth.

The next event on the docket for the Wildcats is the BIG EAST Championships May 13 and 14 from Storrs, Conn.