Cal Sets 11 Provisional and 1 Automatic Qualifiers, 6 School Indoor Records at MPSF Championships

Cal Sets 11 Provisional and 1 Automatic Qualifiers, 6 School Indoor Records at MPSF Championships

Turner, Patterson, Carey, Coe, Greggor and the men’s DMR run for Cal indoor records!



Feb. 28, 2009



SEATTLE - California set eleven NCAA provisional qualifying times or marks as well as six indoor school records on Saturday at the MPSF Indoor Championships at Washington's Dempsey Indoor Facility, where the Golden Bears men finished tied for second placed and the Cal women placed sixth in the overall team standings. Over the two-day conference meet, Cal recorded one NCAA automatic qualifier - by the men's distance medley relay - and 11 provisional qualifiers along with six school indoor school records. The Men’s Distance Medley Relay broke the meet record set last year by Stanford. The Bears also won five events at the MPSF Indoor Championships.



The Cal men compiled 78.50 points to tie for second with Washington State at MPSFs. UCLA (83.50) won the men's team title. The Bears women collected 68.50 points, with Stanford (115) taking the women's crown. The Cal men's finish tied their second-place finish from 2008, while the women wound up two spots behind last year's fourth-place finish.



Cal's men's DMR, consisting of junior Mark Matusak, senior Jake Hanson, freshman Sebastian Sam and sophomore Michael Coe, ran a winning time of 9:29.71 on Friday to set an overall school and meet record and automatically qualify for the national meet. On Saturday, two Bears clocked NCAA provisional qualifiers in winning their events: Senior Ed Wright, who won the men's high jump with a mark of 2.21 meters (7-3.00), and senior Mackenzie Pierce, who won the women's 800-meter run with a time of 2:06.45.



Also on Saturday, Coe won the men's one-mile run with a provisional-qualifying and breaking David Torrence’s school indoor record with a time of 4:00.29. Senior Kellan Patterson won the men's 60-meter dash with a school indoor record time of 6.77 breaking Darren Wood’s 2005 record. Patterson time was three hundredths of a second off an NCAA provisional-qualifying time.



Coe became the fifth-fastest Bear in the men's one-mile run, while senior Mark Matusak became the fourth-fastest Cal runner in the men's 3000-meter run with a fifth-place and lifetime-best time of 8:01.77. One of the Bears Matusak trails on Cal's all-time 3000 list is Coe, who set a school and all-time record of 7:48.05 in that event in the Husky Classic on Feb. 14.



"Matusak did a great job coming back in that race," Cal head coach Tony Sandoval said. "With Coe, things are really coming together for him. He had a great fall. The maturity is starting to kick in, and right now he's one of the hottest runners in the country."



Senior Sean Carey placed third in the men's 800-meter run with a Cal indoor record and provisional-qualifying time of 1:49.65. Carey broke Alex McClary’s 800 meters record set in 2007 MPSF final. Cal senior Inika McPherson posted a provisional-qualifying mark of 1.82 meters (5-11.50) in taking second in the women's high jump.



Three more Bears posted NCAA provisional qualifiers at MPSFs on Saturday: Senior Brook Turner, whose second-place time of 54.31 in the women's 400-meter dash broke Alysia Johnson’s Cal indoor record; sophomore Cherrelle Garrett, who clocked a provisional qualifying time of 7.38 to tie for second place in the women's 60-meter dash; and Sam, who ran a provisional-qualifying 1:49.86 to take fourth in the men's 800.



On Friday, the Bears also hit NCAA provisional qualifiers in the women's 60-meter dash preliminaries, with Garrett taking second and tying her season-best time of 7.34; in the women's 5000-meter run, with sophomore Alison Greggor running a Cal indoor record 16:30.56 to place fourth; and in the women's pole vault, with sophomore Allison Stokke posting a mark of 4.00 meters (13-1.50) to tie for seventh place. Greggor also set the school record in the 3,000 (9:36.26) two weeks ago at the Husky Inv.



Even with all the qualifiers and indoor records Cal set on the final day of the meet, Sandoval lauded his athletes' team effort on Saturday.



"Certainly that was what we were looking for, more than anything else - a team effort to get points," he said. "We were tied for first going into the pole vault, and we got close together today. The provisional marks were just an added bonus for us.



"After the first day, I told them, `There's a lot of the track meet left to be completed. We had ebbs and flows but stay positive. You've got to keep working.'"



Cal is back in action when it hosts a quad meet with Stanford, Fresno State and UC Davis on Saturday, March 7, at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. The NCAA Indoor Championships are schedule for Friday – Saturday at College Station, Texas. Final accepted entries will be posted by the NCAA on Monday March 9.



Current decending order list is at: http://web1.ncaa.org/track/events.jsp



MPSF Indoor Championships

Final Team Standings

Women

1. Stanford 115 points

2. Oregon 91.50

3. Arizona State 78

4. UCLA 75.50

5. Washington 72.50

6. California 68.50

7. Arizona 62

8. Washington State 51.50

9. Cal St. Northridge 32.50

10. Long Beach State 14



Men

1. UCLA 83.50 points

2. California 78.50

2. Washington State 78.50

4. Oregon 78

5. Arizona State 76.50

6. Washington 75

7. Stanford 68

8. Cal St. Northridge 56

9. Arizona 54

10. Long Beach State 14



California's Saturday Results

Women's 60-Meter Dash Final

2t. Cherrelle Garrett 7.38P.



Women's 400-Meter Dash Final

2. Brook Turner 54.31P. (School Record) 10. Kandi Bonty 55.89. 12. Kayla Dixon 56.45. 19. Evelyn Smith 57.32.



Women's 800-Meter Run Final

1. Mackenzie Pierce 2:06.45P. 11. Brazile Clark 2:14.12. 14. Francesca Weems 2:15.47.



Women's 1-Mile Run Final

8. Taylor Bryson 4:55.32.



Women's 4x400-Meter Relay Final

5. Cal A (Kandi Bonty, Kayla Dixon, Mackenzie Pierce, Brook Turner) 3:43.29.



Men's 60-Meter Dash Final

1. Kellan Patterson 6.77. (School Record) 6. Nick Porter 6.92.



Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Final

3. Jordan Paul 8.00. 7. Ryan Holmes 8.17.



Men's 400-Meter Dash Final

12. Tojsh Kennedy 48.75. 15. Keagan Wethington 49.05.



Men's 800-Meter Run Final

3. Sean Carey 1:49.65P.(School Record) 4. Sebastian Sam 1:49.86P. 11. Francis Gadayan 1:51.70. 16. Eric Lee 1:53.71.



Men's 3000-Meter Run Final

5. Mark Matusak 8:01.77P. 12. Matt K. Miller 8:15.04. 24. Brad Surh 8:46.94.



Men's 1-Mile Run Final

1. Michael Coe 4:00.29P. (School Record)11. Eric Lee 4:12.56.



Men's 4x400-Meter Relay

6. Cal A (Tojsh Kennedy, Sean Carey, Sebastian Sam, Francis Gadayan) 3:15.74.



Field Events



Women's High Jump Final

2. Inika McPherson 1.82 meters (5-11.50)P. 4t. Kristen Meister 1.74 (5-8.50).



Women's Triple Jump Final

10. Mercedes Marchbanks 11.63 meters (38-2.00). - Tracey Stewart FOUL.



Women's Shot Put Final

14. Linda Oseso 12.91 meters (42-4.25).



Men's High Jump Final

1. Ed Wright 2.21 meters (7-3.00)P.



Men's Shot Put Final

8. Martin Maric 16.52 meters (54-2.50). 9. Patrick Kowalsky 16.48 (54-1.00).



Multi Events

Heptathlon: Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Final

5. Kevin Kuechler 8.54. 10. Kyle Mills-Bunje 8.86.



Heptathlon: Men's Pole Vault Final

3t. Kyle Mills-Bunje 4.55 meters (14-11.00). 9t. Kevin Kuechler 3.95 (12-11.50).



Heptathlon: Men's 1000-Meter Run Final

8. Kyle Mills-Bunje 2:53.99. 10. Kevin Kuechler 2:55.36.



Men's Heptathlon Final Standings

3. Kyle Mills-Bunje 5224. 7t. Kevin Kuechler 4883.



California's Friday Results

Women's 60-Meter Dash Preliminary

1. Cherrelle Garrett 7.34P. 12. Kristin Holmes 7.78. 16. Robyn Hunte 7.93.



Women's 200-Meter Dash Final

2. Cherrelle Garrett 24.03. 6. Kandi Bonty 24.64. 10. Brook Turner 24.73. 21. Robyn Hunte 25.87.



Women's 5000-Meter Run Final

4. Alison Greggor 16:30.56P.



Women's Distance-Medley Relay

3. Cal A (Taylor Bryson, Kayla Dixon, Francesca Weems, Deborah Maier) 11:41.10.



Women's 60-Meter Hurdles Preliminary

- Emani Truluck DNF.



Men's 60-Meter Dash Preliminary

4. Kellan Patterson 6.83. 5t. Nick Porter 6.84. 15t. Shane Vereen 6.96.



Men's 200-Meter Dash Final

18t. Nick Porter 22.16. 21. Kellan Patterson 22.22.



Men's 5000-Meter Run Final

10. Kari Karlsson 14:15.87. 15. Steve Sodaro 14:31.15. 17. Matt H. Miller 14:35.32.



Men's 60-Meter Hurdles Preliminary

4. Jordan Paul 8.08. 6t. Ryan Holmes 8.17. 12. Aaron Burney 8.43.



Men's Distance-Medley Relay

1. Cal A (Mark Matusak, Francis Gadayan, Sebastian Sam, Michael Coe) 9:29.71AM.



Field Events

Women's Long Jump Final

9. Jackie Lewis 5.70 meters (18-8.50). 16. Robyn Hunte 5.26 (17-3.25). - Tracey Stewart FOUL.



Women's Weight Throw Final

5. Kiely Smith 16.67 meters (54-8.25). 11. Linda Oseso 15.26 (50-0.75).



Women's Pole Vault Final

7t. Allison Stokke 4.00 meters (13-1.50)P. 9t. Cyrena Giordano 3.85 (12-7.50). 12t. Theresa Raub 3.70 (12-1.50).



Men's Weight Throw Final

14. Miles Palacios 16.41 meters (53-10.25).



A NCAA Automatic Qualifying Time/Mark

P NCAA Provisional Qualifying Time/Mark

M MPSF Meet Record


Courtesy University of California Berkeley