Records fall at Huskies indoor meet

Washington's Kate Soma soared into a tie for the NCAA pole-vault lead yesterday with a vault of 13 feet, 9-1/4 inches at the UW Indoor Invitational, one of three school records by UW athletes at the two-day meet.

Shane Charles broke a 12-year-old UW indoor record in the 800 meters with a time of 1 minute, 50.24 seconds, nearly a half-second below Mitch Leffler's record of 1:50.24 set in 1993.

Norris Frederick, a Roosevelt graduate, posted a long jump of 25-6-1/4, which ranks second among collegiate vaulters in 2005 and 13th in the IAAF world rankings.

Grace Vela set a UW pentathlon record of 3,723 in competition Friday, breaking the 22-year-old record of 3,696 points set by Dianne Baumann in 1983.

Other meets

• Six Washington State men and three women won events and 11 meet records fell during the second day of the Cougar Indoor in Pullman

WSU's Darion Powell won the heptathlon with a school-record and NCAA provisional qualifying total of 5,631 points. Robin Mikesh won the women's high jump at 5-10, a personal best, meet record and provisional qualifying mark.

Other Cougars setting meet records included James McSwain, who won the men's 60-meter dash in a personal-record 6.73 seconds, and Jamil Smith, won the men's triple jump with a leap of 50-6-3/4.

• Seattle Pacific's Danielle Ayers-Stamper posted NCAA Division II provisional qualifying marks in the 60-meter hurdles (8.85), high jump (5-8) and long jump (19-1-1/2) and scored 4,007 points in winning the pentathlon at the Boise State/Athletes.com Invitational in Nampa, Idaho.

Tennis

The 10th-ranked UW women earned their third sweep in just four matches with a 7-0 blanking of Boise State at the Nordstrom Tennis Center. The Huskies (4-0) captured all six singles matches in straight sets and swept two of the three doubles matches to put away the Broncos (0-1). Leading the way was Dea Sumantri, who defeated Megan Bjorkman 6-4, 6-3 at the top singles slot.

• Ekaterina Burduli won two matches at No. 1 singles and two others with Nora Gaal in doubles play to help the Washington State women take a pair of matches against regional rivals, defeating Idaho 5-2 and Eastern Washington 6-1.

Swimming

The Washington swimming teams defeated defending NAIA national champion Simon Fraser at Husky Pool. The men handed the Clan a 159-98 loss, while the 24th-ranked UW women won 138-85.

Diogo Bezerra was a double men's winner in the 100 (52.18) and 200 backstroke (1:51.14). For the women, Sharon Olson won the 1,650 freestyle in the team's fastest time of the season (17:04.99).

• The Washington State women (3-3) concluded a two-day meet by beating Idaho 212-162 but falling to Oregon State 199-124 in Pullman. The Cougars were led by Monika Povilonyte, who won both the 100 (1:05.85) and 200 breaststroke (2:20.06).

• Linfield swept both sides of a Northwest Conference dual meet from Pacific Lutheran, with the men winning 134-66 and the women 115-90.

• Whitman wrapped up the regular season with victories over Pacific in Forest Grove, Ore. The Whitman women rolled to a 147-38 win, while the men won 87-53.

Notes

• Former UW rower and 2004 Olympian Erik Miller of Renton was one of six rowers to qualify for the World Indoor Championships at Ergomania, the Northwest Indoor Rowing Championships.

Miller clocked a 6:22.7 to defeat Sam Brown and meet the time standard for world championships, Feb. 13 in Boston. Also qualifying were Jennifer Cromwell and Kelly Amsler of Redmond's Sammamish Rowing Association; Luanne Mills of Seattle, the defending 60-69 age category world indoor champion; and Robert Meenk of Seattle.

• Dalton Bergan of Seattle finished second in the 49er class at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, the largest Olympic preparation regatta in the U.S.

Compiled from reports by college sports-information directors and other sources.