EUGENE, Ore. -- Washington State's men's track and field team finished in sixth place, the highest finish since 2009, on a cool but sunny Sunday at the Pac-12 Championships at Oregon's Hayward Field in Eugene. The No. 7 Oregon men's team won the conference team championship for the 11th consecutive year with 175 points followed by No. 8 USC with 115.5, No. 20 UCLA 101, Colorado 73, California 72, Washington State 68.5, Washington 61, Arizona State 51, Arizona 50, and Stanford 49.
 
The Cougar men's 4x100m relay opened Sunday's track events with a surprising third-place finish as Zach Smith, Ja'Maun Charles, Ray Littles and CJ Allen ran a time of 40.36 seconds. Seventy-five minutes later, Charles (sophomore, Pleasanton, Calif.) grabbed third place points in the 100m dash with his wind-aided PR time of 10.29.
 
Two-time conference 400m hurdles champion CJ Allen (senior, Allyn, Wash.) tallied a PR time of 49.54 but finished Sunday as the runner-up when UCLA sophomore Rai Benjamin nipped Allen at the tape in a PR time of 49.52. Allen's time moves him up to fourth on the WSU all-time record list.
 
In the men's 110m hurdles final, Christapherson Grant (sophomore, Lynnwood, Wash.) finished fifth in a season-best time of 14.34 seconds while Nick Johnson (freshman, Spokane, Wash.) fell before the 10th hurdle but got up and finished the race for seventh place in a time of 16.61.
 
Matthew Swanson (senior, North Vancouver, B.C. Canada) finished fifth in the 800m run with a season-best time of 1 minute, 50.10 seconds while Justin Janke (freshman, Spokane, Wash.) scored in eighth place with a time of 1:51.70. In the men's 5000m, Michael Williams (junior, Richland, Wash.) ran a time of 14:14.20 for ninth but Sam Levora (junior, Sandpoint, Idaho) did not finish the race.
 
Adam Mahama (redshirt senior, Pullman, Wash.) scored with an eighth-place finish in the discus after throwing 172-3 (52.51m). Robby Flores (sophomore, El Paso, Texas) also scored with an eighth-place finish in the triple jump after a wind-aided PR of 48-8 3/4 (14.85m).
 
The men's 4x400m relay of Charles, Swanson, Littles and CJ Allen ended the meet with a season-best time of 3:10.40 for second place in the first heat and scored in fifth place overall.
 
In the first women's event of the day, WSU's 4x100m relay of Jordyn Tucker, Regyn Gaffney, Tierney Silliman and Danielle Darden captured fifth place with a time of 45.91.
 
In the women's high jump, Lateah Holmes (senior, Fife, Wash.) and Kiana Davis (senior, Longview, Wash.) both cleared 5-feet 7 3/4 inches (1.72m) with Holmes tied for third place and Davis seventh. Alissa Brooks-Johnson (redshirt junior, Doty, Wash.), the heptathlon champion, high jumped 5-5 3/4 (1.67m) for 10th, and Liz Harper (senior, Missoula, Mont.) cleared 5-3 3/4 (1.62m) which tied for 14th. Harper interrupted her high jumping to score with a seventh-place finish in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:01.27.
 
Davis also triple jumped and soared to a PR of 42-8 (13.00m) on her opening jump, a mark that is second-best in WSU all-time, and was fifth place Sunday. Greer Alsop (redshirt junior, Invercargill, New Zealand) had a best effort of 39-7 3/4 (12.08m) for sixth place.
 
In the women's 5000m, Devon Bortfeld (junior, Sammamish, Wash.) finished 19th in a time of 16:42.19 and Vallery Korir (junior, Iten, Kenya) ran a time of 17:07.72 for 26th place.
 
Pole vaulter Kristine Felix (redshirt senior, Wailuku, Hawai'i) cleared 12-10 1/4 (3.92m) to tie at ninth place, while Molly Scharmann (redshirt freshman, Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) did not clear the opening height of 11-10 1/2 (3.62m).
 
In the women's hammer, Katie Wardsworth threw 171-3 (52.20m) for 13th and Aoife Martin threw 152-4 (46.44m) for 16th. Kaitlin Krouse (sophomore, Chewelah, Wash.) threw the discus 147-10 (45.07m) for 15th and Chrisshnay Brown (sophomore, Lompoc, Calif.) threw 137-7 (41.95m) for 17th.
 
The Cougars 4x400m relay of Marlow Schulz, Alissa Brooks-Johnson, Natalie Ackerley and Grace Victor ran a time of 3:48.25 for 10th.
 
The No. 2 Oregon women's team won the Pac-12 title for the eighth straight year after scoring 189 points. The remaining women's team scores were: No. 3 USC 135, Colorado 78, No. 23 Washington 72, UCLA 63, No. 20 Arizona State 58.5, No. 17 Stanford 47, Arizona 46, Washington State 45, California 45, Oregon State 21.5, and Utah 16.

"We had a great overall team performance especially on the men's side in which we finished only 4.5 points out of fourth," WSU Director of Cross Country/Track & Field Wayne Phipps said. "CJ Allen and Ja'Maun Charles led the way on the final day with huge performances in their individual events and in both relays. Matthew Swanson made his first Pac-12 final and made the most of it with a fifth place finish and a season's best. Kiana Davis led the women today with great performances in both the high jump and triple jump. Her performances were even more impressive as there was a last minute schedule change which resulted in both of her events being contested at the exact same time. She had to run back and forth between the events and still jumped a personal best in the triple jump and scored in both events. Lateah Holmes also had an awesome high jump competition to finish third. This is step one in our championship part of our season and we should have a very large and definitely a very strong contingent heading to the first round of NCAAs."
 
The qualified Cougars will compete next in the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, May 25-27, in Austin, Texas.