EUGENE, Ore. – The Utah track & field team tied its second-highest point total at the Pac-12 Championships on Sunday with 21 and was paced by the 4x400m relay team that won their heat at the newly reimagined Hayward Field.
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The 4x100m relay team of
Kelise Davis,
Bailey Kealamakia,
Maya LeBar and
Lauren O'Banion ran the third-fastest time this season for the Utes at 47:06 to start the day.
Simone Plourde gave the Women of Utah its first points of the weekend after running a 4:17.46 in the 1500m for sixth-place overall.
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Josefine Eriksen also added three points of her own when she ran a PR time of 52.72 in the 400m dash to improve her time in the record book.
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Skyler Blair then gave the Utes five points with her fourth-place finish in the 400m hurdles with another personal record mark of 58.54 – which was the fastest time by any Ute this season and pushed her into third all-time in the Utah record books.
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Cara Woolnough, who had the ninth-fastest time in the 5000m in the West Region coming into this weekend, led the race on Sunday for a few laps before finishing fourth-overall (15.55.47) and gave Utah another five points.
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Meanwhile,
Bella Williams ran a new PR time of 16:18.40 to best her previous time by nearly 10 seconds for ninth while
Keelah Barger crossed the finish line at 16:43.25.
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Utah's 4x400m relay team of O'Banion,
Jasie York,
Oneillia Fuller and Eriksen came from behind to win their heat thanks to Fuller and Eriksen to post a season-best mark of 3:40.19 to close out the weekend.
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That relay team tacked on five more points for Utah, giving it 21 points on the weekend – which ties the 2012 squad for the second-most points at the conference championships meet in its first year in the Pac-12. It was just the third time Utah has scored 20-plus points at the conference championships. The highest point total came in 2014 when it tallied 23 points.
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The Utes now return home and will await the final declaration list at the NCAA West Regionals (May 26 & 28) to see who will officially compete in Fayetteville, Ark., at John McDonald Field.
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