UNLV’s Barto captures Cal-Nevada 1,500 race

Monday, April 30, 2001 | 10:24 a.m.

UNLV senior distance runner Katie Barto won the 1,500 meters for the second time this season, clocking a personal best 5:25.32 in the Cal-Nevada Championships Sunday at Irvine, Calif.

Barto's victory scored 10 of the Rebels' 39 points, good for an eighth-place team finish. Her time was less than a second behind the meet record of 4:24.46, set by UCLA's Beth Bartholomew in 1994.

San Diego State won the team event with 110 points, and the Aztecs' Promise Mose and Cal State L.A.'s Nicole Duncan shared Runner of the Year honors.

Mose won the 400 meters, ahead of the Rebels' Nickeisha Charles, who placed fourth with a season-best time of 55.22. The two rank first and second, respectively, in the conference this year.

Christine Spence followed her sixth-place finish in the high jump on Saturday with a fifth-place showing in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:01.84.

UNLV got scoring efforts in two field events. Jennifer Gardner posted a season-best toss of 134 feet, 2 inches in the javelin for fifth place, and Tiffany Smith added a point in the triple jump by clearing 38-11 1/2 to finish eighth.