WALTHAM, Mass. — The University of Southern Maine women’s track and field team posted 18 top-three finishes, including five first-place results, en route to finishing first among the eight teams competing at the annual Reggie Poyau Invitational held Saturday at Brandeis University.

The Huskies rolled up 175.50 points to more than double runner-up Merrimack College’s total of 73 points. Host Brandeis was third with 67.50 points, and Wellesley College rounded out the top half of the team standings with 58.

Senior Jasmine Boyle of Brunswick won the 5,000 meters with a personal-best time indoors of 18:25.13 seconds. Classmate and former Mt. Ararat High School standout Liz O’Neal led a 1-2- 3 finish by the Huskies in the 200 meters with her time of 27.12. O’Neal added a third-place finish in the 55 hurdles in 8.94 seconds

The Huskies will travel to Brunswick on Saturday to take part in the Bowdoin College Invitational at 1 p.m.

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