Buchanan 7th in 100; Reiber 4th in discus

Anthony Buchanan got Washington State on the board Friday at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas. Ina Reiber got Idaho on a few spots higher.

Buchanan, a senior from Spokane, finished seventh in the men’s 100 meters – a finish that left him with some mixed emotions.

“My plan was to come and be an All-American and my goal was to hopefully win – but I am very happy with All-American,” he said. “I had a terrible start and middle and finish. It was not my best race.”

Still, his time of 10.22 seconds was his second-fastest ever with a legal wind, slower only than the 10.21 he ran to win his second Pacific-10 Conference championship last month. Arkansas’ Tyson Gay won a narrow look at the finish over TCU’s Michael Frater for the title, clocking 10.051 to Frater’s 10.059. Top qualifier Marc Burns of Auburn, who ran 9.99 in the prelims, did not show up in the starting blocks for the final.

Reiber, meanwhile, placed fourth for the Vandals in the women’s discus with a throw of 182 feet – just 9 inches short of her best this season.

A junior transfer from Germany, Reiber got off her big throw in the second round, but could never get close to the top three finishers who all bested 190 feet, led by champion Becky Breisch of Nebraska at 204-5.

Idaho’s Jereme Richardson is in 11th place after the first day of the decathlon, totaling 3,906 points – leaving him just 55 points out of a scoring position in eighth. Richardson had a solid first day that included an 11.01 run in the 100 and a 6-51/2 leap in the high jump.

Other Inland Northwest competitors – WSU’s Blessing Ufodiama in the triple jump (42-0), Idaho’s Katie Tuttle in the discus (165-2) and Tassie Souhrada in the high jump (5-7) – failed to place or advance.

Lauryn Williams of Miami ran away with the women’s 100-meter title at the winning in 10.96 seconds — the fastest time in the world this year.

Favored Arkansas led the men’s competition after six events with 25 points. After nine events, Nebraska led with 38 points in the women’s race.