Pole vaulter Skyler Magula and shot putter Jeff Duensing both qualify for NCAA nationals
Cal junior Isaiah Shaw, the second-fastest 400-meter runner in Cal history, was disqualified for running out of his lane in Wednesday’s opening round of the NCAA West Regional meet at Fayetteville, Ark., on Wednesday.
Shaw ran fourth in his heat at 45.95 seconds and had the 12th-fastest time of the day among six heats with 48 total entries. That placing would have qualified him for Friday’s quarterfinals. But officials ruled he stepped out of his lane and DQ’d him based on rule 15.5-2b, which states a runner is disqualified if “in a race run on a curve, steps on or over the lane line to the left with two consecutive steps of either both feet or a single foot.”Shaw ran 45.51 at the Pac-12 meet two weekends ago, and was hoping to take down Peter Howard’s 1985 program record of 45.46.
Fellow senior Jeff Duensing, also a Pac-12 champ, qualified fifth in the shot put at 63-4 and will advance to Eugene. Duensing is third on Cal all-time list at 65-7 3/4. Freshman Nicholas Godbehere wound up 26th with a mark of 58-2 . Junior Mason Mangum, a one-time wide receiver on the Cal football team, leaped 25-0 1/2 in the long jump for a a non-qualifying finish of 15th place. Teammate Jason Plumb was 29th at 24-4 1/4.Jeff Faraudo was a sports writer for Bay Area daily newspapers since he was 17 years old, and was the Oakland Tribune's Cal beat writer for 24 years. He covered eight Final Fours, four NBA Finals and four Summer Olympics.
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