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Rice javelin thrower Evan Karakolis, along with the pole vaulters, will be in El Paso on Saturday for the UTEP Invitational.

The results eventually will be here.

Meet information, including schedule (MDT).

Rice goes 1-2-3 in the men's hammer.

1. Duncan Dickerson 61.57 (202' 0")
2. Austin Riddle 57.05 (187' 2")
3. Uche Ugwunze 51.29 (168' 3")

Women's Pole Vault

1. McKenzie Johnson 4.00 meters (13' 1½")
2. Alicia Janke 3.90 meters (12' 9½")
4. Marielle Brisbois 3.90 meters (12' 9½")

Men's Javelin

1. Rasmus Maukonen, UTEP 72.74 (238' 8") *
2. Evan Karokolis, Rice 67.25 (220' 8")
4. Eric Maher, Rice 55.68 (182' 8")

* moves to #10 in NCAA, just behind #9 Karokolis.

In January, Maukonen started writing a blog about his experiences transferring from Finland to UTEP. "Road to 80 meters at UTEP": http://blogit.jamk.fi/utep/2014/12/24/pr...-the-trip/

Men's Pole Vault

* Chris Pillow no-height (3 misses at 5.22 - 17' 1½")

1. Vitaliy Bilenko 4.92 (16' 1¾")
2. Karl Pierce 4.62 (15' 1¾")
3. John Rudd 4.17 (13' 8¼")

Men's Long Jump

4. Ben Pressley 7.27 (23' 10¼")
5. Justin Gross 6.94 (22' 9¼")

Note: Pressley's jump was with a gigantic tailwind (5.6 meters/sec.), which is 12.52 miles/hour.

Men's 110 Meter Hurdles

1. Filip Drozdowski 14.13