As fans shuffled in and out of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center last Saturday, the women's indoor track team was ensuring those cheering for them would leave happy. Led by multiple event wins from jumper Ali Sax '09 and captain sprinter Olivia Alford '08, the women's team finished first out of 10 teams at the Reggie Poyau Memorial Invitational with 183.5 points, 56.5 points better than second-place Amherst College. Meanwhile, the men's team finished fourth out of 11 teams with 103.33 points, less than one point shy of third-place Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

"It's our only home meet, and it's early in the season, so there's not a lot of pressure," Alford said. "We just try to have fun, enjoy having fans out to support us."

This was the fifth incarnation of the event, named for a former Brandeis runner who drowned while studying abroad in Africa in 2003. The women's team last won the meet in 2006.

The women's team won eight of the 19 events en route to victory. Sax, who last week was named Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Field Athlete of the Week for her three-win performance at the Bowdoin College Invitational Jan. 12, continued her momentum into this week, winning the triple jump with a leap of 10.84 meters and the long jump with a leap of 4.96 meters.

"I've been training really hard with coach, [and] I think I was just more rested," Sax said.

Alford won both the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes with times of 26.92 seconds and 1:00.98, respectively, even while claiming she wasn't prepared to run her fastest in the 400-meter event.

"The 200 is a lot easier than the 400 for me right now in the season," she said. "I'm not quite in shape to run my best time in the 400 yet."

Fellow captain Sandra Canuto '08 picked up a victory in the 55-meter dash in 7.69 seconds despite only tying for third place in the preliminary round, while Marie Lemay '11 followed up her 800-meter win last weekend with a victory in the 1000-meter run. Suzanne Bernier '10 allowed the Judges to sweep the jumping events, leaping a personal-best 1.60 meters with to win the highjump.

The Judges' final victory came in the 4-by-800 meter relay, as Lemay, Grayce Selig '11, Jess Girard '10 and Meaghan Casey '09 won with a time of 9:47.26.

The men's team won only two events all day but still finished in fourth place. Captain Pat Gregoire '08 took one of them, winning the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.70 seconds, and the 4-by-800 meter relay team of Ben Bray '11, Mike Stone '09, Geoff Fauchet and Dan Suher '08 had the other victory, finishing with a time of 8:09.74.

Gregoire said the length of the 55-meter run, which allowed him to race without having to make any turns, helped him overcome nagging injuries to his left side and back.

"When you're running the straightaway, you're not leaning to any one side," he said. "You're nice and equal, so it's a lot easier that way."

The Judges did also have several second-place finishes.

One of the most exciting races of the day was the 1,000-meter run, where Suher took the lead on the last lap only to tire out at the last moment and fall behind Trinity College senior Matt Anderson. Suher eventually finished in second place with a time of 2:34.00, just 17 hundredths of a second behind Anderson, but despite the close loss, Suher said he was not disappointed with the outcome of the race.

"I put in a pretty hard burst, and I knew that I really didn't have any more gears, so it was just a question of if someone caught me or not," Suher said. "It was unfortunate when [Anderson] passed me, but he's been a New England champion, so it's not a bad person to lose to."

The other second-place finishes came from Stone in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:02.67 and Ned Crowley '10, who finished with a time of 23.77 seconds in his first-ever collegiate 200-meter dash.

The indoor track teams next race in the Terrier Classic in Boston Friday and Saturday at 10 a.m.