EUGENE Ore. (Mar. 17) -- Rachel Ross continued her assault on the Seattle Pacific University record for the 800-meters and Ally Studer smashed her own school pole vault mark at the Oregon Preview track & field meet Saturday at Hayward Field.

Ross (Jr., Kennewick, Wa.) ran a personal-best time for the third meet in a row and won for the second straight week in 2 minutes, 8.68 seconds, moving her up two places to No. 3 in school history. It was the fastest time in NCAA Division II this season. Susie Griffith set the SPU record of 2:06.6 in 1977.

Ross, coming off a 2:09.76 in her first outdoor race, finished about 20 meters in front of Oregon's Eri Macdonald, who was timed in 2:11.49. It was the 11th 800 win of her career.

Studer (Fr., Redmond, Wa./Redmond), who had broken the pole vault record in her debut two weeks ago, raised the bar more than eight inches, to 11 feet, 11 3/4 inches. It was the second-best clearance in Div. II. She took third behind the Ducks' Holly Speight (12-5) and Becky Holliday (12-5).

The Falcons' Stephanie Huffman (Jr., Brush Prairie, Wa./Prairie) took over the national lead in the javelin. Huffman threw the spear a PR distance of 141-6 to finish fourth. The 1999 NCAA runner-up in the heptathlon was third in the long jump at 17-9 and sixth in the 100 hurdles (15.82).

In other events, Natalie Dorow (Jr., Billings, Mt.) had her streak of outdoor triple jump wins stopped at four meets, dating back to last season. Dorow, with a mark of 36-4, was runner-up to Portland State's Wiyanna Kramer (36-9).

Jamie Witt (Fr., Folsom, Ca.) ran 11th in the women's 3000 (10:10.56) and Abby Harris (Sr., Auburn, Wa.) cleared 5-4 1/4 in the high jump for third.

The men's team got a win from Kelsey Backen (Jr., Yakima, Wa./East Valley) in the 1500 in 4:01.78. Backen came back to take third in the 300 (8:42.29) while Nathanael Castle (Jr., Gooding, Id.) was fifth (8:44.21). Freshman Paul Mach was third in the 400 hurdles (55.63) and Trevor Sharp (Sr., Bala-Cynwyd, Pa.) fifth (58.07).

Seattle Pacific will send a few individuals to the UC Davis Quadrangular next Saturday and resume activity as a full team Mar. 31 at the Spring Break Open in Edmonds.