Matt Centrowitz ran a spectacular 41 seconds for the last 300 meters of the 3k championship at the MPSF championships.  His final time of 7:55.90 moved him to fifth on Oregon's all-time list, is a 17+ second pr and moves him to eighth on this year's collegiate list.  He beat stud Stanford XC a-a freshman Chris Derrick of Stanford and teammates Luke Puskedra (7:58.42) and Scott Wall  (7:59.27).  Just like his win in the mile at the UW Invite two weeks ago (3:57.92) older and more experienced runners just could not hold him off. 

Vince D'Onofrio and Kenny Klotz sacrificed themselves to help AJ Acosta get a fast pace for a NCAA qualifying time and win but he came up just short with a 4:01.89, second to defending MPSF 3k champ Michael Coe of Cal in 4:00.29.  The previous night Coe was the anchor leg of Cal's NCAA automatic qualifying DMR run.   

Chad Barlow was seventh in the hotly contested 400 at 47.73.  Galen Rupp ran a near 1.5 second pr in the 800 (1:49.87) for 5th in the 800, Eric Hersey was seventh in the 60m hurdles (8.24),  Oregon was third in the 4x400 relay at 3:10.40.  And...surprise, surprise we saw David Klech for the first time in an Oregon uniform and he ran well.  Ashton Eaton ran a 46.6 opening leg (one of two events he competed in).  In Eaton's other event he tied for sixth in the high jump at 6-8 3/4.   

The last two completed events were the Heptathlon and the pole vault.  6 vaulters cleared 5.17m 16-11 1/2.  UCLA vaulters held the top 4 positions. Stanford's Corey Dysick was tied for fourth and Oregon's Colin Witter-Tilton was sixth.  After five of seven events Oregon's Marshall Ackley was ninth, the place he had occupied after jumping 20-9 in the long jump (the second event of the competition).  Marshall jumped 15-7 in the sixth event, second best of the competition, and moved to fifth at 4344 with one event to go.  He was three points ahead of Lance Gonzales and 149 points behind Andrew Ferleman of Washington. 

As each of the six vaulters took their last attempts at 5.32m, 17-5 1/2 it became clear after the Triple Jump results were added that someone had to knock UCLA out of the top four spots in the pole vault by clearing the height or Ackley had to make a big move in the 1000 meters to change his position and someone else had to severely falter.  Woepse of UCLA (1st) and Quinn of UCLA (=4th) missed and as the runners were coming around Dysick of Stanford (=4th) missed and Witter-Tilton of Oregon (sixth) missed the meet was over no matter what the final two UCLA vaulters did because although Ackley won the 1000 meters, no one had severly faltered and he finished fourth overall with a 207 point pr at 5209.  With 28.5 points in the pole vault, UCLA had moved from eighth to first at 83.5 points, Cal and Washington State tied for second at 78.5 points, Oregon was fourth with 78 points, and Arizona State was fifth with 76.5 points and Washington was sixth with 75 points.