Saturday, Jun. 27, 2009
U.S. Track and Field Championships: Day sits in third place halfway through heptathlon
The former Cal Poly star in good position to make world championship team in a second event
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closeFormer Cal Poly star Sharon Day is in third place after the first day of the women’s heptathlon Saturday at the U.S. Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Day, who finished third in the high jump Wednesday to make the U.S. team for the world championships in August in Berlin, has 3,739 points to trail Hyleas Fountain (4,038 points) and former Washington State star Diana Pickler (3,768).
Fountain’s first-day score is a personal record.
Day, who was the U.S. leader in the heptathlon entering the meet with 6,063 points, had the top mark in the high jump today at 6 feet, 23⁄4 inches, good for 1,106 points on the international scoring system table.
Day also turned in a time of 13.82 in the 100 hurdles (1,004 points), a time of 24.66 in the 200 (918 points) and a mark of 41-10 (711 points) in the shot put.
In today’s three heptathlon events, Day will be competing in the long jump, javelin and 800. She was the 2008 Big West Conference champ in the long jump and was a top-four finisher in the javelin at those Big West Championships.
If Day finishes in the top three today, she will need to finish with 6,100 points or better to reach the “A” qualifying standard for the world championships.
Another former Cal Poly star, Ben Bruce, finished fifth in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8 minutes, 36.76 seconds. Josh McAdams won the race in 8:29.91.
In the junior meet that is running concurrently with the U.S. championships, Oregon-bound Jordan Hasay easily won her preliminary heat of the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes, 28.96 seconds to advance to today’s final.
The junior meet is for those 19 and younger. Hasay is the two-time defending national junior 1,500 champ and set the meet record of 4:16.98 two years ago in Indianapolis.
Hasay also competed in the senior meet, finished 20th out of 23 runners in Wednesday’s 1,500 prelim. She did not make the final.
“I think that was just a bad race,” Hasay told The (Eugene, Ore.) Register-Guard newspaper. “We went really slow, and I didn’t have the kick in the end. I decided I’d use my finish since I’m here and have some fun out there.”
Among those Hasay will be running against today is Taylor Wallace, who will join Hasay as a freshman at the Oregon next season. Wallace had the fifth-fastest prelim time Saturday at 4:32.76.
In the junior men’s 400 hurdles, Cal Poly’s Eric Surprenant finished sixth in the prelims of the 400 hurdles in 53.23 to make today’s finals.
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