Arkansas women win NCAA title

Sandi Morris of Arkansas in the Saturday, March 14, 2015, in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville.
Sandi Morris of Arkansas in the Saturday, March 14, 2015, in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville.

— Arkansas' women can finally hang a banner of their own.

The Razorbacks finished first in the team standings at the NCAA Indoor Championship Saturday at Randal Tyson Track Center to become the first female program to win a national championship at Arkansas. The Razorbacks finished with 63 points, 16.5 points ahead of second-place Oregon, which had won four consecutive championships before this season.

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Arkansas won the distance medley relay Friday and followed with wins by Sandi Morris in the pole vault and Dominique Scott in the 3,000 meters Saturday.

Taylor Ellis-Watson finished second in the 400 meters and later anchored the second-place 4x400 meter relay for the Razorbacks. Arkansas scored in every event it had participants.

Oregon won its second consecutive men's team title with 74 points. Florida finished second with 50 points and Arkansas was third with 39 points.

Razorbacks hurdler Omar McLeod won the 60 meter hurdles with a NCAA-record time of 7.45 seconds. McLeod, a sophomore, has won the event the last two years.

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