LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- Michael Cox and Dawn Steele-Slavens of Kansas were named the outstanding performers, and two Kansas graduates fought it out in the pole vault to highlight the final day of competition in the 70th annual Kansas Relays.
Pat Manson and American record holder Scott Huffman both cleared 18 feet, 6 1/2 inches in the invitational pole vault, with Manson winning on fewer misses Saturday.
"It was a great day and a fantastic crowd," Manson said, "and it was super weather to vault in."
Huffman, who has a best of 19-7, said he was satisfied with his performance.
"I've been training really hard, and my legs are tired," he said.
Cox won the Glenn Cunningham mile easily but fell short of running the first sub-4 minute mile in 23 years at the Relays.
Cox finished in a career-best 4:00.93.
"I didn't think that I would come close today," Cox said. "I was tired from yesterday, and the weather wasn't the perfect conditions." Cox ran the anchor leg on the winning 4-mile relay team Friday.
The last sub-4 minute mile at the Relays was Jim Ryun's 3:57.1 in 1972.
Cox's mark was a provisional qualifier for the NCAA championships, as was the 50.55 recorded by Joey Woody of Northern Iowa in winning the university 400-meter hurdles.
Steele-Slavens won the 400-meter hurdles in 59.69, an NCAA qualifying time, and ran a leg on the winning 400-meter relay team.
Simone Kirtz of Ball State was second in the hurdles in 59.89, also a provisional qualifier.
Kansas State's Wanita Dykstra won the women's university high jump at 5-9 1/4, a provisional qualifying mark for the NCAA championship meet.
Nick Johannsen of Kansas jumped 7-1 3/4 to win the men's high jump and also qualify for the NCAA meet.
Missouri won the men's university 2-mile relay, just ahead of Northern Iowa, reversing last year's finish.
"It's windy, so I just sat behind the Northern Iowa anchor and let him do the work until the last 100 yards, then I let it go," said Missouri anchor Jared Wilmes.
The Kansas State women won the 1,600-meter relay in 3:43.23, an automatic NCAA qualifying time, with Ball State second in a provisional qualifier of 3:47.19.
Terance Jackson of Missouri-Kansas City won the university triple jump in a personal-best 49-2 1/4, beating several others who had marks over 51 feet this season.
"I just started doing the triple jump this year," Jackson said. "I'm really on a basketball scholarship."
Missouri won the men's 2-mile relay and the women's distance medley relay.
Travis Livingston of Kansas State won the university 110-meter hurdles, with teammate Nicole Greene winning the women's 100-meter dash.
In other women's events, Pittsburg State won the college 2-mile relay for the second year in a row, and Melanie Lewis won the triple jump. On the men's side, the Gorillas got winning efforts from John McCarty in the 110-meter hurdles and Dinsdale Morgan in the 400-meter hurdles.
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