Micah Harris ran the 110-meter hurdles twice on Sunday.
The second time was the charm.
Harris broke his own Oregon school record with a time of 13.67 seconds in the Olympic Development section of the event at the Mt. San Antonio College Relays in Walnut, Calif., on Sunday afternoon. The record came hours after Harris won the collegiate section with a 14.01.
The senior assured himself a second-straight trip to the NCAA Championships with the time, which beat his previous school record — set at last season’s NCAA Championships in Eugene — by 0.06 seconds.
Harris finished second in the elite race late Sunday afternoon. Mississippi’s Antwan Hicks finished first with a time that was less than 0.06 seconds faster than Harris’ mark.
Another Oregon hurdler, junior Terry Ellis, also won his 110 collegiate section with a 14.33. The time tied his season best, and was also a Pac-10 qualifying time.
Sophomore Brandon Holliday rounded out the Ducks’ hurdling action with a fourth-place showing in his section of the 400 hurdles Sunday afternoon. Holliday’s time of 52.15 was slightly slower than his season-best 51.29.
Earlier in the weekend, Oregon senior Billy Pappas finished sixth in the decathlon at nearby Azusa Pacific University. Pappas scored enough points to land him on the NCAA provisional list and take the Pacific-10 Conference lead in the event.
In his first decathlon of the season, Pappas scored 7,311 points — his third-highest total ever — over the two-day competition Thursday and Friday. He was helped by decathlon personal bests in the shot put, javelin and 400.
The event marked Pappas’ full return from a stress fracture in his vertebrae, an injury that kept him from competing in any events until the Washington Dual meet on March 13. The senior was an NCAA scorer last season, as he finished eighth in the event at the NCAA Championships at Hayward Field.
Also on Friday, senior Adam Bergquist improved his season best in the 5,000 at Mt. SAC. Bergquist ran a 14:16.31, which beat his previous best by eight seconds but fell short of his personal record. The time is a Pac-10 qualifying mark.
Two Oregon athletes, distance runners Ross Krempley and Ryan Andrus, were scheduled to compete on Saturday but did not make the trip to California.
Next weekend the Ducks will return home for the Oregon Invitational on Saturday. The meet, which starts at 10 a.m., will feature a mix of Northwest collegiate and post-collegiate athletes.