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NCAA West Preliminary Round
OU Sends Five More to NCAA Championships
May 27, 2011 | Track and Field
May 27, 2011
EUGENE, Ore. — Oklahoma added five more entries to the NCAA Track and Field Championships Friday at the NCAA West Preliminary Round in Eugene, Ore., to go along with the five qualifiers from Thursday. While the five Sooners who qualified for Des Moines were ending their respective events, four other events containing Sooners began their first round of action on Saturday and all four OU athletes in action qualified for the next round on Saturday.
Candyce McGrone (100-meter dash), Shawna Anderson (100-meter dash), Mookie Salaam (100-meter dash), Sarah Pappas (pole vault) and K.P. Singh (hammer throw) all added their names to the NCAA Championships travel itinerary with top 12 performances on Friday.
Oklahoma is one of only three teams at the meet to send two athletes to Des Moines in the 100-meter dash as McGrone and Anderson both qualified for NCAAs. The two did so in different ways as McGrone automatically qualified by finishing second in the event's first heat with a time of 11.48 while Anderson captured the fourth and final at-large qualifying spot as she was sixth in the second heat with a time of 11.67, narrowly edging the next-fastest time, 11.69, from No. 6 Dominique Duncan of Texas A&M.
Salaam will run in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA Championships for the third time in as many years as he easily won the event's first heat with a time of 10.29. Salaam led all qualifiers in the event as Texas-Arlington's Cordero Gray was the next fastest with a time of 10.33. The junior entered the weekend ranked No. 17 nationally in the event.
Pappas cleared her second-best height of the season as she went over the bar at 13-3.50 (4.05) to finish 10th in the event and punch a ticket to her first-ever NCAA Championships. Pappas did not have a miss through her first four attempts before failing to clear 13-5.25 (4.10). Pappas entered the meet ranked 20th nationally.
Competing in a rain-soaked ring, SIngh advanced to the NCAA Championships in the hammer throw for the second year as he grabbed the 12th and final qualifying spot in the event with a throw of 205-6 (62.65). Singh's top mark came on his sixth and final throw as outdistanced the next closest competitor by just over three feet.
Latoya Greaves moved on to the next round in the women's 100-meter hurdles as she clocked a time of 13.49 to finish second in the event's fifth heat. Running against the Big 12 champion and nations' top athlete in the event, Baylor's Tiffani McReynolds, Greaves safely navigated the 10 hurdles to finish with the eighth-fastest time of the prelims as McReynolds won the heat with a time of 13.32.
The men's 110-meter hurdles will have an OU athlete in the event as Malcolm Anderson ran a season-best time of 13.80 to finish third in his heat and advance to Saturday's next round. Anderson's time was just off his personal best of 13.79 run at the 2010 Texas Invite.
McGrone returned to the track an hour-and-a-half after qualifying in the 100-meter dash for the first round of the 200-meter dash. McGrone kept her NCAA double hope alive as she easily won the event's fourth heat with a time of 23.35.
Oklahoma Final Results
Men's 100-Meter Dash: 1. Mookie Salaam 10.29
Men's 800-Meter Run: 20. Chris Sweeney 1:49.77
Men's 400-Meter Hurdles: 14. Eric Bailey 50.82
Men's Hammer Throw: 12. K.P. Singh (62.65)
Women's 100-Meter Dash: 7. Candyce McGrone 11.48; 12. Shawna Anderson 11.67
Women's 800-Meter Run: 24. Kelsey Brown 2:12.87
Women's 100-Meter Hurdles: 34. Jesica Ejesieme 14.08
Women's 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: 28. Annie Martin 10:31.39
Women's Pole Vault: 10. Sarah Pappas 13-3.50 (4.05); 20. Alexandra Acker 13-1.50 (4.00)
Oklahoma Athletes Advancing to next round in Eugene
Men's 200-Meter Dash: Mookie Salaam 20.90
Men's 110-Meter Hurdles: Malcolm Anderson 13.80
Women's 200-Meter Dash: Candyce McGrone 23.35
Women's 100-Meter Hurdles: Latoya Greaves 13.49
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