UCLA Women and USC Men Win Titles

UCLA compiled the highest point total by a women’s team in meet history and the USC won its first men’s championship since winning the final Pacific 8 meet in 1978 at the Pacific 10 Conference track and field championships on Sunday in Seattle.

Joanna Hayes won two hurdles titles and Suzy Powell won her second conference title in as many days for the Bruins, who scored 189.5 points and won 10 of 18 events during the two-day meet.

Hayes won the 400-meter hurdles and defended her conference title in the 100-meter hurdles.

Powell, the nation’s top-ranked discus thrower, won the discus after winning the javelin Saturday.

UCLA’s Andrea Anderson won the 200 meters and finished second in the 400 meters to teammate Darlene Malco, who defended her conference title.

Jerome Davis defended his conference title in the 400 meters and ran on USC’s victorious 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams as the Trojans edged UCLA, 145-138, for the men’s championship.

Isaac Turner won the men’s 800 meters and ran anchor on the Trojans’ championship 4x400-meter relay team.

Kedjeloba Mambo won the triple jump for USC and William Erese added a title in the 110-meter hurdles for the Trojans.

Although USC won the title in 1978, it was later removed because the Trojans had used ineligible athletes.