Finals Results
BERKELEY -
The UCLA women continued its dominance of the California/Nevada State Track and Field Championship, winning its second consecutive title with 114 points and sixth in the seven-year history of the meet Sunday at Edwards Stadium. The Cal women finished second with 86 points, just ahead of Nevada with 84. The Fresno State men rallied in the final two events and held off defending champion California for an 87-85 victory.
The men's team competition came down to the final event, the 4x400m Relay, with the Bulldogs holding an 84-77 lead over the Bears before the start of the event. Cal finished second in the 4x400m Relay (3:10.36), just behind Long Beach State (3:10.26) and the needed 10 points (instead of the eight it scored) to tie Fresno State for the championship. FSU finished sixth (3:16.52), receiving three points, which was enough for its men's best third California/Nevada trophy. Long Beach State finished third in the men's team race with 77 points.
The athletes of the meet and coaches of the meet will be voted on during the week and posted when available.
Cal wraps up is home meet schedule Saturday, May 6, with the 106th Big Meet vs. Stanford.
Below are some highlights from today's interstate meet. Complete individual event and team score agates are linked to this story.
Cal Highlights
Junior Maria Lopez led the way for the Cal women, winning the pole vault with a school record and NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 13-0.25. Lopez broke her previous school record of 12-3.5 set at the Arizona Quadrangular this year.
Freshman April Holliverse took more than three seconds off her previous PR (62.71) in the 400mH, finishing second in 59.22, and placed fifth in the 100mH with a PR of 14.15.
Cal senior Chuck Berkeley won the 400m in a personal best 47.04. Bear freshmen Robert Kennedy and Vincent Ibia finished first and second, respectively, in the long jump with leaps of 24-10 and 24-5 (PR).
Freshman Ahmad Wright continued to lead the Bears 400mH contingent, placing second in 52.27.
Meet Highlights
UNLV's Michele Davis broke her old California/Nevada 400m meet record (53.61), clocking in with a winning time of 52.98. Davis doubled with a win in the 200m in 23.54.
San Diego State's Kylie Edwards and UCLA's Seilala Sua also doubled. Edwards medaled in the 800m (2:09.35) and the 1500m (4:27.00), while Sua won the shot put (55-02) and the discus (203-10), which was just short of her discus meet record 204-00 set in 1998.
Long Beach State's Tayyiba Haneef took first in the women's high jump with an Olympic Trials B Standard mark of 6-00.50.
Sacramento State's Tony Galaviz won back-to-back California/Nevada 110m titles, winning in 14.17. Fresno State's E.J. Jackson was a triple winner, repeating as the meet's 100m champion (10.65), winning the 200m (21.43) and competing on the Bulldogs winning 4x100m Relay (40.26).