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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.
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