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Saturday, January 22
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Blanton Meets NCAA Provisional Standard
January 22, 2005 | Track and Field
NORMAN, Okla. -- Defending NCAA 60-meter champion DaBryan Blanton took his first step back to the 2005 meet, posting an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the event Saturday afternoon at the Oklahoma Track Classic.
Blanton just missed the provisional standard with the best qualifying time in the prelims with a 6.73. He ran a 6.66 in the final to win the title, just missing the NCAA automatic mark of 6.62, during action at the Mosier Indoor Facility.
Blanton ran on the men's 1600-meter relay at the season-opening meet in Arkansas on Jan. 14 but did not enter any invidual events.
Blanton's win was one of 14 recorded by the Sooners in the home opener. The junior came back two hours later to help the OU men's mile relay win the the title with a 3:21.51. He teamed with a pair of Sooner freshmen, Marcus Pugh and Brayon Brown, and junior Josh Scott. Pugh finished just behind Blanton in the 60 with a 6.74, just missing the NCAA provisional mark of 6.72.
The Texas-Arlington men edged the Sooners, 109-108, and North Texas was third with 67 points in the team standings. North Texas won the women's meet, followed by Texas-Arlington with 129.50, Oklahoma with 112 and Southern Methodist with 47. The Sooners finished one-two-three in the men's 60 dash (Blanton, Pugh and Daniel Bridges) and the men's 1,000-meter run (Tyler Schmiedeberg, Blake Culp and Stephen Taylor).
OU was one-two in the women's 60-meter dash (Kerri Ann Mitchell and Yolanda Goff) and the men's 600-yard run (Aldwyn Sappleton and Brown) but under NCAA scoring rules only two entries per team count toward the team scores.
Oklahoma winners in today's meet included Mitchell, who took the title in the 60 and ran the second leg of OU's winning mile relay. She was joined on that winning relay by Goff, T.J. Newton and Stephanie Graves. Schmiedeberg doubled in the mile and the 1,000-meter run.
Jackie Dubois won the women's mile and Terrika Warren was the winner of the 400-meter dash. Sappleton took the title in the 600 and the Sooner women including Catherine Odell, Newton, Clementine McCutcheon and Aja Clark, won the distance medley relay. The Sooner men also won the men's distance medley relay. Making up that quartet were Salah Hussein, Andrew Crabbe, Taylor and Culp.
The Sooners picked up three winners in the field events. Senior Kris Glenn took the men's high jump, clearing 6-5. Lucretia Rimmer won the women's triple jump and freshman Tydree Lewis followed with a win in the men's triple jump.
OU will take next weekend off before returning to competition. On Feb. 4, several Sooner runners will compete in the Notre Dame Invitational. In Norman, OU will host the J.D. Martin Combined on Feb. 4 before hosting the J.D. Martin Invitational on Feb. 5.
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