Dunlap Wins Pole Vault Title At Big 12 Championships

Feb. 22, 2002

LINCOLN, Neb. - They had met three times this season and the Big 12 Championships would mark the fourth meeting between OU sophomore Leslie Dunlap and Texas A&M's Erica Boren in the pole vault. Dunlap beat Boren a week ago to take the edge and she won again tonight to win her second confernce pole vault title (Dunlap won the Big 12 Outdoor title last May). She set a Big 12 meet record with her winning vault of 13-3.75.

"I was really nervous going into the competition. I just wanted to go out and compete hard and do the best that I could. I would have liked to have cleared 13-7, but I didn't quite make it. I guess I'll wait two weeks and try and do it at nationals. It really feels great to win the Big 12s. I am really excited," Dunlap said.

The Choctaw sophomore's performance led the Sooner women to a fifth place finish after the first day while the Sooner men, who have their best final events on Saturday, were 11th.

Freshman Lindsey Bourne was fourth in the vault with an 11-10 and redshirt freshman Jamie Lillie was ninth with an 11-4.25. Sophomore Mary Waytula, who has been vaulting in competition just over two months, tied a season best with a 10-10.25 to tie for 10th.

The Sooner women also finished seventh in the distance medley relay while the OU men were fourth in that event.

The Sooner men advanced three to Saturday's finals. Quentin Morgan, a former Sooner football player who began training with the track team about a month ago, set a school record in the 60-meter dash with a 6.76 in the semifinal. He slipped past the record of 6.78 set just a week ago by junior L'eron George. Morgan had the fourth fastest semifinal time. Senior Edwin Jones also advanced to the final with the eighth best time, 6.78.

Redshirt freshman Aldwynn Sappleton recorded the fifth fastest time in the 600-yard run to advance to the final.

Sooner women also advanced three to Saturday's final. Junior Tiffany Davis had the eighth fastest time in the semifinals in the 60-meter hurdles to move on to the final. The top six times in the 60-meter hurdle semifinals were NCAA provisional marks.

Junior Aisha Stringer and sophomore Kim Thomas advanced in the 800-meter run. Thomas had the fourth best time with a 2:12.46 while Stringer had the eighth best time, 2:13.57, in the preliminaries.

Action resumes at 10 a.m. Saturday with the final events of the men's heptathlon. The remaining field event finals begin at 1:30 p.m. while the running event finals are scheduled to start at 3:25 p.m.

Men's Results
Team Scores -- 1. Colorado 26; 2. Missouri 23; 3. (tie) Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Kansas State 15; 7. Iowa State 14; 8. Texas A&M 11; 9. Oklahoma State 8; 10. Baylor 7; 11. Oklahoma 4; 12. Texas Tech 3

Finals
Weight Throw -- 1. Scott Russell, Kansas, 77-10.75
Long Jump -- 1. Jason Ward, Texas, 25-4.75; 13. Elvin Frempong, OU, 22-10; 21. Devon Brabham, OU, 21-5.25
5000 Meter Run -- 1. Jorge Torres, Colorado, 13:51.32; Brandon Kissack, OU, DNF; Darren Hutchins, OU, DNF
Distance Medley Relay -- 1. Texas A&M, 9:49.59; 5. Oklahoma (Joey McNair, Brontez Steele, Aldwynn Sappleton, Jimmy Buchanan), 10:00.62

Heptathlon
60-Meter Dash -- Ben Winter, OU, 7.42 (739); Dan Strong, OU, 7.62 (675)
Long Jump -- Strong,, OU, 20-06.50 (644); Winter, OU, 20-01.00 (613)
Shot Put -- Winter, OU, 41-04.25 (643); Strong, OU, 33-07.50 (501)
High Jump -- Strong, OU, 6-02.25 (705); Winter, OU, 5-10.75 (627)

Preliminaries/Semifinals
60-Meter Dash -- Edwin Jones, 6.85 (qualified for semifinals); Quentin Morgan, 6.84 (qualified for semifinals); L'eron George, 6.93 (qualified for semifinals); Elvin Frempong, 7.05
60 Meter Dash --Jones, 6.79 (qualified for final); Morgan, 6.76 (qualified for final) [OU school record, old record 6.78 by L'eron George, 2002]; George, 6.91
60 Meter Hurdles -- Brontez Steele, 8.52
600 Yard Run -- Aldwynn Sappleton, OU, 1:11.17 (qualified for final)
400 Meter Dash -- Raoul Harvey, 48.73; Ernest Lewis, 49.88; Andrew Crabbe, 50.34; Brontez Steele, Brontez, DQ
800 Meter Run -- Moses Washington, 1:55.29
200 Meter Dash -- L'eron George, 21.62; Cory Morris, 22.75

Women's Results
Team Scores -- 1. Nebraska, 44; 2. Kansas State, 39; 3 (tie). Colorado and Iowa State 23; 5. (tie) Oklahoma and Texas A&M, 18; 7. (tie) Bayor and Missouri 16; 9. Kansas 11; 10. Texas Tech10; 11. Texas 9; 12. Oklahoma State 8

Finals
Pole Vault -- 1. Leslie Dunlap, OU, 13-3.75 (Meet record, old record 13-1.5 by Erin Anderson, Kansas State, 2000); 4. Lindsey Bourne, OU, 11-10; 9. Jamie Lillie, OU, 11-4.25; 10. (tie) Mary Waytula, OU, 10-10.25
Long Jump -- 1. Monique Peters, Kansas, 19-10.75; Sand Swaby, OU, 17-6
Weight Throw -- 1. Amanda Morely, Nebraska, 60-05.75
5000 Meter Run -- 1. Jodie Hughes, Colorado, 16:14.00
Distance Medley Relay -- 1. Texas Tech, 11:34.15; 7. Oklahoma (Kim Thomas, LaKisha Robinson, Aisha Stringer, Kelli O'Rourke), 12:02.84

Pentathlon
60-Meter Hurdles -- Chaundra Allard, OU, 9.14 (881); Taylor Cates, OU,9.32 (844)
High Jump -- Taylor Cates, OU, 5-03.25 (747); Chaundra Allard, OU, 4-10.50 (610)
Shot Put -- Allard, OU, 35-08.00 (587); Cates, 34-06.25 (564)
Long Jump -- Allard, OU, 17-11.50 (691); Cates, OU, 17-01.25 (617)
800-Meter Run -- Allard, OU, 2:33.05 (655); Cates, OU, 2:29.08 (704)

Prelims/Semifinals
60 Meter Hurdles -- Tiffany Davis, 8.63 (qualified for semfinals); Sand Swaby, 8.72; Fallon Carter, 8.99
60-Meter Hurdles (semis) -- Davis, 8.51 (advanced to final); Sand Swaby, 8.83
60 Meter Dash -- Alicia Emanuel, 7.71 (qualified for semifinals); Briana Hope, 8.07 (qualified for semifinals
60-Meter Dash (semis) -- Emanuel, 7.71; Hope 8.12
Mile Run -- Jackie Dubois, 5:28.00
600 Yard Run -- Michelle Thomas, 1:26.82; Amanda Wedel, 1:26.10; Sara Justice, 1:31.13
400 Meter Dash -- Krystle Williams, 58.36; LaKisha Robinson, 57.12; Lameisa Thomas, 57.80
1000 Meter Run -- Kelli O'Rourke, 2:58.12
800 Meter Run -- Aisha Stringer, 2:13.57 (qualified for final); Kim Thomas, 2:12.46 (qualified for final)
200 Meter Dash -- Alicia Emanuel, 25.53; Tiffany Davis, 25.93; Briana Hope, 27.02

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