CHARLESTON, Ill. -- Eight different middle distance and distance runners and one sprinter all set personal-best marks for Tennessee Tech Friday on the first day of the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships at Eastern Illinois.

The Tech women's track & field team didn't garner any points in the team standings, which were led by Tennessee State in the women's competition and Southeast Missouri in the men's events.

With five events scored on day one, TSU has 38 points in the women's standings, followed by Southeast Missouri in second (34 points), Eastern Illinois in third (33 points), Murray State in fourth (28 points), Eastern Kentucky in fifth (20 points), SIU Edwardsville in sixth (18 points), Austin Peay in seventh (13 points), Belmont in eighth (7 points) and Jacksonville State in ninth (4 points).

On the men’s side, SEMO leads after five scored events with 50.5 points. EKU is second (42 points), EIU is third (40 points), TSU is fourth (30.5 points), Belmont is fifth (15 points) and SIU Edwardsville is sixth (14 points).

For coach Tony Cox's Golden Eagles, four personal-best marks fell in the 800-meter race and four more in the 5,000-meter event.

At 800-meters, freshman Landy Loving led the way with a time of 2:28.75, which was 22nd overall. She was followed across the line by teammates Dalis Connell (2:32.62), Elizabeth Mitchell (2:36.36) and Yeshi Dorhmann (2:43.57), all with personal marks.

Junior Rebecca Cline established a new career-best time at 5,000-meters, finishing in 18:41.89 to finish 14th overall. Other PR marks came from Beth Miller (19:17.25), Kathryn Forbes (20:49.84/shown in photo) and Amelia McCoy (21:01.73).

The other personal-best was clocked by freshman Chelsea Mills, who posted a time of 8.07 seconds in the 60-meter dash.

Mills jumped 16 feet, onehalf inch in the long jump, while Kelli Keck leaped 15 feet, six inches in the same event. In the high jump. Erin Keyes cleared the bar at 4 feet, 9.5 inches before being eliminated from the competition.

Keck had Tech's best time in the 200-meter dash at 27.60 seconds, while Mills was just behind in 27.75. In the 400-meter run, Brittany Cotto clocked a 1:06.13 finish.

The only other event Friday in which Tech had entires was the distance medley relay. The foursome of Loving, Cotto, Connell and Kendale Caldwell posted a time of 13:13.59.

The final day begins Saturday morning in the Lantz Fieldhouse.