Track teams compete

at UW Classic
In their second trip to the Dempsey Indoor Complex at the University of Washington, the Duck men’s and women’s track and field teams continued to collect personal bests and qualifying marks at Saturday’s UW Quad Classic.
Redshirt juniors Becky Holliday and Niki Reed led the Oregon women with NCAA automatic qualifying marks in the pole vault (second/third, 13-9 3/4) and broke the previous school record (13-5 1/4) they shared by 4 1/2 inches. Sophomore Kirsten Riley also climbed the NCAA provisional list with her half-inch personal best (fourth, 12-10), followed by season bests and Mountain Pacific Championships qualifying efforts by redshirt junior Georgette Moyle (ninth, 11-11 3/4) and freshman Hannah Moore (16th, 11-5 3/4). Former NCAA champion Tracy O’Hara of UCLA won the event with a national-lead clearance of 14-3 1/2.
Holliday returned to finish third overall in the 200-meter dash (26.05), best among the Ducks.
In the sprints, junior Janette Davis helped the squad notch a pair of wins and season bests in the 400 (56.23) and 4×400 relay (3:51.97).
Individually for the Duck men, redshirt juniors Jason Boness (high jump, 7-1) and Micah Harris (60 hurdles finals, 7.90) exactly met the NCAA provisional minimum qualifying standards en route to wins.
The distance corps made its largest appearance of the season so far as four Ducks joined the Mountain Pacific Championships qualifying list in the mile — redshirt junior Simon Kimata (mile, second, 4:06.74), redshirt freshman Noel Paulson (mile, third, 4:06.80), redshirt sophomore Ryan Andrus (mile, fifth, 4:09.81), and redshirt freshman Eric Logsdon (mile, sixth, 4:10.01).

— From staff and wire reports