Day One Recap

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Mar. 5) ­Chris Randolph of Seattle Pacific University won the seventh and final event to finish fifth in the USA Indoor Combined Events Championships at the University of North Carolina Sunday.

Ryan Harlan successfully defended his title with 5,949 points. Harlan held off '04 Olympian Paul Terek, who moved up from fourth to second during the second day to score 5,883.

The defending NCA Division II decathlon champion, Randolph (Sr., Lone Tree, Co./Denver Christian) ran the 1,000 meters in 2 minutes, 40.69 seconds­a personal record by nearly 5 seconds­to finish first in the 10-man field. He totaled 5452 points altogether, just off his SPU record of 5508 earlier this season.

Randolph's other second-day marks were a 60 hurdles time of 8.49 and a pole vault of 14 feet, 10 inches. He was the only Div. II competitor in the competition