Her landing wasn’t the best. The rain just started to pick up more heavily prior to her final jump. And she just watched a Stroudsburg jumper tie her mark at 37-9 just before her final attempt.

Everything seemed to be stacked against Salisbury’s Lindsay Bauer as she approached the runway for her final leap in the triple jump during Friday’s Allentown School District Track and Field Invitational at J. Birney Crum Stadium.

None of that seemed to matter.

Bauer exploded for a mark of 38 feet, two inches on her final jump to pass Stroudsburg’s Tatiana Williams and win the triple jump. That mark set a new personal best for Bauer, breaking her previous mark by four inches she set in 2015.

“I wasn’t too sure, but I didn’t want to lean back or anything, so I had to scoop myself out of the sand,” Bauer said. “I heard someone say 38, and I was like, ‘No, not a 38. Then they said 38-2 and I was just through the roof.”

Bauer’s performance, which included a third-place finish in the long jump at 18 feet, highlighted a successful day for Salisbury jumpers at the ASD Meet. On the boys’ side, Jack Reichenbach took gold in the high jump at six feet, six inches, and finished in the top three in the long jump.

To most, placing third and earning a medal in such a competitive meet would be a great accomplishment. That’s the position Bauer found herself in following the long jump event, but instead expected the outcome to go a bit differently.

The Falcon senior fouled on her final attempt, leaving Pocono Mountain’s Khyasi Caldwell-Adams (19-0) and Liberty’s Kaylin West (18-4) at the top of the podium when all was said and done.

Bauer didn’t let that mishap define the rest of her day.

“It’s a great feeling considering long jump didn’t go as a I planned,” Bauer said. “My last one was like a 19-8 and I fouled by three inches. So it would have been a 19-5, but fouls don’t count.

“That’s kind of been problem all year. If I do badly on one thing it’s difficult for me to let it go and move onto the next. To come out here and PR (in triple jump) and win it on my last jump, it makes the entire day worth it.”

The early portion of her senior season, for the most part, hadn’t been what Bauer anticipated. An entire new coaching staff, including jumping coach Dan Reichenbach, made the transition a little bit tougher to adjust to. But now she’s starting to see the results she knew would eventually come.

“We totally tore down my technique and we started from scratch,” Bauer said. “He taught me how to use my arms in my jump, landing on my heel instead of my toes, and getting my knee up in the second phase.”

And there’s no better time for Bauer to see those results starting to produce than now with leagues and districts set for the upcoming weeks.

“It was a learning experience all season, so my results weren’t always what I wanted them to be,” Bauer said. “Lately it’s all been coming together. I trusted him and it’s all paying off.”

Tevon Weber placed first in the javelin event with a throw of 160 feet, two inches, a mark he threw on his second of three attempts.

Rylee Donaldson was the other Falcon top-six finisher, placing sixth in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.22. She was less than two seconds off third-place winner Peyton Shaffer of Liberty.