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Scott Houston, former Northwest Guilford star and UNC commitment, tied for third in the boys' pole vault. The two-time state champion jumped the bar at 15-8½, along with recent graduate Matthew Alexander of Tolland, Conn.

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Former Southern Guilford standout William Graves Jr. finished eighth in the 400 meters with a time of 47.85 seconds.

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Mount Tabor rising senior Hunter Furr placed third (21.52) in a hotly-contested 200-meter dash. Furr finished .02 seconds behind rising senior Dentarius Locke of Tampa, Fla.

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Warwick Valley (N.Y.) High School set the national record for the girls' distance medley at 11.31.81, lowering the mark set by a fellow New York high school, Bay Shore, in 2004 (11.33.42).

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Charlotte's Spencer Adams edged Chance Casey, a rising senior from Dayton, Tex., in the boys' 400 meter hurdles. The former Butler star won in 50.99 seconds, eight hundredths ahead of Casey.

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Southern Durham graduate Jacinda Evans took home the gold for the girls' long jump. She bested the competition with a 19-9½ leap. Cummings rising senior Brittany Wilkins placed 12th (17-101/4).

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Rising sophomore Zakiya Tyson won the girls 200 meter dash Emerging Elite in 24.39 seconds. Tyson, of Jordan High School in Durham, was already the 100-meter dash Emerging Elite champion.

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The Blazin' Raiders of Greenbelt, Md., ran the girls 1,600 relay in the seventh best time in national history. Elan Hilaire, Doris Anyanwu, Afia Charles and Tasha Stanley captured the 1,600 relay in 3:37.02.

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Rising sophomore Hannah Carson of Chandler, Ariz., proved why she's the No. 1 javelin thrower in the nation. She threw the javelin 149 feet, 3 inches in her Nike Outdoor Nationals debut to beat runner-up Andrea Hopkins, a junior from Lake Oswego, Ore., by more than eight feet (138-10).

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The girls 2,000-meter steeplechase pitted five of the nation's top seven competitors. But rising senior Shelby Greany, of Suffern, N.Y., avenged her second-place finish in the 2007 Nike Outdoor Nationals to recent graduate Hannah Davidson of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., with a winning run of 6:42.86. Davidson placed third.

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Two girls posted the two best national times this year in the 400 meters. Nadonnia Rodrigues, a recent graduate from Brooklyn, N.Y., had a time of 52.86 seconds, while Natalie Stewart, a graduate from Spanish Fork, Utah, finished in 53.07 seconds.