Hart earned a career-best 7773 points, taking third at the 1999 NCAA meet. For the first time since 1996, the California men's and women's track and field teams swept Stanford in the annual Big Meet Saturday at Edwards Stadium. Meanwhile, the men's race came down to the final event, the 4x400m relay, with the Bears winning and earning the decisive five points. Senior Chuck Berkeley, the Big Meet 400m champion, fittingly anchored Cal's winning relay. She was Cal's best overall performer, accounting for 15 points with three victories.
Every point is extremely critical in dual meet competitions.
It takes 82 points to win a dual meet, and 11 of Cal's 84-79 victory points were accounted for by two athletes who were not expected to compete. Sophomore Jerriod Mack underwent an emergency appendectomy 17 days prior to the Big Meet and returned to competition over the weekend. Senior Peter Gilmore also ran an NCAA provisional mark in the 10,000m Friday night at the Cardinal Invitational. All rights reserved.