The Harvard women's track team won all three events in which it was entered yesterday at the 107th running of the Penn Relays-the world's oldest and largest track and field relay meet-and twice topped the national performance lists in the process.

Co-captain Brenda Taylor opened the day's competition with a personal-best time of 56.11 seconds in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Not only was the performance enough to win the meet, it was also the best NCAA time of the season, and the best time run by an American all year.

A few hours later, senior high jumper Dora Gyorffy buried the collegiate competition in the high jump, clearing a meet-record height of 1.91 meters. That height matched her NCAA season-best performance from March.

Then to top off the afternoon, the Crimson 4x400 relay team of sophomore Ashley Furst, co-captain Marna Schutte, Taylor and sophomore Amanda Shanklin posted a winning time of 3:44.26 that was over four seconds better than a field that included the nine Heptagonal competitors minus Brown and Dartmouth.

"I'm so excited," Taylor said. "This is an amazing meet. Harvard came here entered in three events, and we won all three. This carried over from [the 104-51 win over] Yale [last week], and it'll carry over to Heps next week."

The tough competition Taylor faced yesterday pushed her to the best performance of her life. Texas senior Angel Patterson, who had the nation's best time of 56.40 seconds going into the meet, was the favorite.

"[Patterson] has been running real well, and she has been successful for a long time," Taylor said. "She goes out fast, but then dies at the end."

Patterson led nearly the entire race, but Taylor beat her on the race's final hurdle.