Courtesy Cal
March 5, 2011
BERKELEY - Freshman Charnell Price captured the 100 and 200 meters and anchored Cal's winning 4x400-meter relay to lead the Golden Bears at the Cal Outdoor Opener Saturday at Edwards Stadium. Overall, the Bears won 10 events on the afternoon competing against squads from Stanford, Cal Poly, Fresno State, USF and UC Davis.
"Today was a nice rust-buster for us," said director of track & field Tony Sandoval. "We had some young people who had not competed indoors who were able to get their feet wet. We moved some people around and we kept some other people out, but we had some good marks out there."
Competing in her first outdoor meet at home, Price covered the 100 meters in 11.86 seconds, then came back a short while later to win the 200 in 24.59. The Cal quartet of Angelica Weaver, Ashley Cooke, Kayla Dixon and Price led from the start in the 4x400 and cruised to victory in 4:47.00.
In the women's 100 hurdles, Emani Truluck won in a PR time of 13.85 to move up to fifth on Cal's all-time performer list. Her previous best was 13.91 seconds set against Stanford at last year's Big Meet.
Three other Bears came close to meeting their lifetime bests. Kristen Meister cleared 5-10.00 to prevail in the high jump, just three-quarters of an inch off her PR. Meister moved the bar up to an even 6-0, but missed on her three attempts at the height.
Junior Linda Oseso got her outdoor season off to a promising start with an outdoor PR effort of 46-0.50 in the shot put to take fourth in the event. Earlier in 2011, she posted a mark of 47-3.50 indoors. Oseso also uncorked a throw of 175-7 in the hammer, a good early mark and less than four feet shy of her PR of 179-2 set at the NCAA West Preliminary meet last June.
Finally, Kendall Morris won the discus with a mark of 154-11, less than a foot off her PR.
Other Golden Bears winners on the day were:
Maurice Valentine - men's high jump - 6-7.00
Chase Wheeler - men's long jump - 22-9.25
Patrick Kowalsky - men's shot put - 56-4.00
Theresa Raub - women's pole vault - 12-9.50
Decathlete Kevin Kuechler got a thorough workout, competing in four events - 400 meters, 110-meter hurdles, shot put and javelin.
Fellow decathlete Mike Morrison and long jump/triple jump specialist Hammed Suleman also saw some action, Morrison in the shot put and pole vault and Suleman in the long jump. Morrison has automatically qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships next week in the heptathlon, while Suleman is expected to gain a berth in the triple jump.
Cal's next outdoor meet will be the Cal Multis for decathletes and heptathletes March 23-24, while the full team won't be in action until the weekend of March 25-26 when the Bears will be at both the San Francisco State Distance Festival and the Stanford Invitational.
Cal Outdoor Opener
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Edwards Stadium
Berkeley, Calif.
Complete Meet Results
Cal Men's Results
200 meters - 7. Chase Wheeler 22.49 (-1.6); 12. Daniel Davis 22.81 (-1.0)
400 meters - 3. Daniel Davis 49.52; 7. Nick Porter 50.59; 11. Kevin Kuechler 53.69
800 meters - 12. Monte Corley 1:58.90
1500 meters - 12. Bob Riestenberg 4:01.06; 18. J.J. Solorzano 4:09.06
3000 meters - 14. Renaud Poizat 8:40.38; 19. Ethan Mark 8:52.75
110-meter hurdles - 6. Kevin Kuechler 16.95 (+1.2)
High Jump - 1. Maurice Valentine 6-7.00 (2.01m); 2. Mike Tracy 6-4.75 (1.95m); 2. Nick Ridge 6-4.75 (1.95m)
Pole Vault - 4. Mike Morrison 14-9.00 (4.50m)
Long Jump - 1. Chase Wheeler 22-9.25 (6.94m, -0.4); 6. Taylor Kientzel-Means 21-6.75 (6.57m, -0.4); 9. Idarre Coles 20-4.50 (6.21m, -1.5); Hammed Suleman NM
Triple Jump - 3. Taylor Kientzel-Means 45-8.00 (13.92m, -0.8)
Shot Put - 1. Patrick Kowalsky 56-4.00 (17.17m); 10. Kevin Kuechler 40-9.00 (12.42m); 11. Mike Morrison 39-8.50 (12.21m)
Discus - 7. Patrick Kowalsky 146-2 (44.56m)
Javelin - 7. Kevin Kuechler 141-1 (43.00m)
Cal Women's Results
100 meters - 1. Charnell Price 11.86 (+1.3); 3. Cherrelle Garrett 12.03 (+1.3); 7. Emani Truluck 12.44 (+1.3); 9. Tiarra Pittman 12.49 (+1.3)
200 meters - 1. Charnell Price 24.59 (-1.2); 3. Kayla Dixon 24.88 (-1.2); 6. Emani Truluck 25.56 (-1.0); 12. Tiarra Pittman 26.20 (-1.0); 16. LAureina Toler 26.79 (-1.0); 19. Dantia Hudson 27.66 (-0.9)
400 meters - 2. Ashley Cooke 56.08; 3. Kayla Dixon 56.36; 11. LAureina Toler 1:01.64
800 meters - 10. Angelica Weaver 2:18.65; Alima Kamara DNF (ran 600 meters)
1500 meters - 6. Juliana Green 4:39.52; 8. Sarah Keddington 4:42.84
3000 meters - 11. Crystal Esparza 10:16.44
100-meter hurdles - 1. Emani Truluck 13.85 (+0.8); 7. Dantia Hudson 15.10 (+0.8); 9. Tiarra Pittman 15.43 (+0.8)
4x400-meter relay - 1. Weaver/Cooke/Dixon/Price 3:47.00
High Jump - 1. Kristen Meister 5-10.00 (1.78m); 2. Gianna Fernandez 5-6.50 (1.69m); 6. Natalie Hoage 5-4.25 (1.63m)
Pole Vault - 1. Theresa Raub 12-9.50 (3.90m); 7. Nicole Larson 11-5.75 (3.50m)
Long Jump - 2. Tracey Stewart 18-10.00 (5.74m); 5. Amanda Hunter 18-0.50 (5.50m); Sunny Margerum NM
Triple Jump - 3. Amanda Hunter 38-1.50 (11.62m, -1.7)
Shot Put - 4. Linda Oseso 46-0.50 (14.03m)
Discus - 1. Kendall Morris 154-11 (47.21m); 5. Clinay Cameron 129-7 (39.49m)
Hammer - 2. Linda Oseso 175-7 (53.53m); 3. Kiely Smith 165-9 (50.53m); 8. Clinay Cameron 120-10 (36.63m)
Javelin - 3. Dana Hoolko 140-2 (42.72m); 6. Katie Bruzzone 129-5 (39.44m)
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