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Men’s continued from page 9 Oregon senior Billy Pappas also ran the 110 hurdles on Saturday, but it wasn’t with Harris. Pappas opened Saturday’s decathlon ac tion with the race, then went on to compete in the discus, pole vault, javelin and 1,500. Pappas finished second in his hurdles heat and also performed well in the pole vault, finishing sec ond overall. He finished 11th in the competition with 7,514 points, 18 points shy of his personal best. v “I didn’t have as good a day as I would have liked, but it wasn’t from a lack of effort,” Pappas said. “The level of competition was in credible, and it wasn’t an easy day for me, and I know I gave it my all.” On Friday, sophomore pole vaulter Trevor Woods was defeat ed by Xs and Os instead of ath letes. He cleared 17 feet, 4 1/2 inches, the same height cleared by the fourth-place finisher, but missed twice before making it over the bar. The two misses, marked as Xs on the scoresheet, cost him a top-eight finish. The situation was familiar to Woods, who cleared the champion’s height at the NCAA indoor champi onships earlier this season but dropped to third because of misses. The Ducks, who finished second at the Pacific-10 Conference Cham pionships, finished fourth among Pac-10 teams at the NCAA Champi onships. Stanford, which took the conference crown, finished eighth overall at the national meet. UCLA and Washington finished tied for 30th with eight points each. But the NCAA Championships belonged to LSU, which became the first squad since Oregon in 1984 to win the national title on its home track. The Tigers got a NCAA Men’s Final Standings points 1.ISU 64 2. Tennessee 57 3. SMU 42 4. Florida 32 Clemson 32 6. South Carolina 30 7. Arkansas 28 8. Stanford 26 9. Colorado 23 Texas 23 T35. Oregon 07 win from Claston Bernard in the decathlon en route to scoring 25 points on the final day of compe tition, but they still needed a thrilling finish to win the crown. “I didn’t have as good a day as I would have liked, but it wasn’t from a lack of effort. ” Billy Pappas senior Heading into the final event, the 4x400 relay, LSU needed at least a third-place finish to sew up the team title. The event was essen tially a rematch of the Southeast ern Conference Championships, where LSU finished second in the 4x400 but lost the team title to Tennessee. But on their home track, the Tigers needed third and got it, edging fourth-place East Carolina by 0.48 seconds. Next year’s NCAA Champi onships will be held in Sacramen to, Calif. E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com. Emerald Senior Billy Pappas, who finished eighth at last year’s NCAA Championships, placed 11th in the decathlon Saturday, missing his personal best by 18 points. The Azalea, Ore., native scored 7,514 points in the two-day competition. -— /M' '"m |HJP ■ ■ WwmmmM ■ ■ : : : ' Ils®" '' "'''/' ' ■ cUT) . wmmmm rifcjfc A §§1 H fa? V isjif' if , / ft Ilf ' •"•• ■" *■ ictH < ::: 111 Uni -m f. v ■■■'■■ -*» * e re a matter of de Ted Dervin Jr. / Spanish Katie Collins Jr. / Gen Science Lindsey Harris Fr. / Psychology Rebecca Wagner So. / Undecided Emily Garling Jr / Gen Science Angela Arnold Sr. / Communication Disorders & Science Sariantra Kali Post Bacc / Pre-med Laural Conley Fr / Spanish Erica Tucker Jr. / Psychology Carrie Zografos Jr. / Psyc & Spanish Claudia Le Jr, / Gen Science Jessica Hougen Post Bacc / Anthro Cass White Post Bacc / Pre-med Jessica Southwick So. / Political Science & Spanish Gavin Oliver Sr / Gen Science & Biology
