FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas — Garrett Scantling became the No. 3 all-time American performer in the decathlon and Anna Hall set an American collegiate record in the heptathlon Saturday at the USATF Combined Events Championships at John McDonnell Field. Scantling (Jacksonville, Florida/USATF Florida), who was fourth at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, overtook day one leader Kyle Garland of Georgia after the pole vault and then put together exemplary efforts in the javelin and 1,500m to end up with 8,867 points, a score surpassed by only former world record holders Ashton Eaton and Dan O’Brien on the all-time U.S. performer list. Garland shattered the collegiate record with 8,720 points in second, moving to No. 8 on the all-time U.S. performer list. Zach Ziemek (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin/USATF Wisconsin), sixth at the Games last year, was third with 8,573, and Tokyo tenth-place finisher Steven Bastien (Ann Arbor, Michigan/USATF Michigan) ended up fourth with 8,135. Trailing Garland by 157 after the first day, Scantling started making up ground right away with a lifetime best 13.59 in the 110m hurdles, and he needed it as Garland also set a personal best of 13.71. More points were chipped away in the discus, where Scantling uncorked a huge personal best of 51.04m/167-5 to add almost 10 feet to his previous best and beat Garland by 16 feet. A third attempt clearance at 5.15m/16-10.75 put Scantling in the overall lead by 52 points despite a lifetime best 4.85m/15-11 vault from Garland. In the penultimate event, Scantling hit 67.16m/220-4 in round two, by far the best of any of the decathletes, while Garland threw a lifetime best of 59.63m/195-7 on his final attempt. That left the 1,500m, where Scantling needed to run 4:42 to overtake O’Brien for the No. 2 spot on the U.S. all-time list, and Garland required a much easier 5:16.30 to take the collegiate record. Both men stayed in the middle of the pack through the first laps and on the run to the line Garland had the better kick to stop the clock at 4:43.21, a lifetime best, with Scantling just behind him in 4:46.37. A wind-legal lifetime best of 6.39m/20-11.75 in the long jump set the stage for an assault on the mark Hall (Gainesville, Florida/USATF Florida) needed to earn a berth on Team USATF for Eugene. She achieved a solid 38.44m/126-1 in the javelin and had 5,390 points after six events. Needing to run 2:05.63 or faster to meet the World Championships qualifying standard of 6,420, Hall responded with the fourth fastest 800m ever in a heptathlon, stopping the clock at 2:03.11 to end up with 6,458 points and a 274-point margin over runner-up Ashtin Mahler (Temple, Texas/USATF Texas Southern). Her score moved her to No. 2 on the all-time collegiate performer list and improved on her own American collegiate record of 6,412. Mahler used a 50.07m/164-3 throw in her strongest event, the javelin, to pass up Michelle Atherley (Coral Gables, Florida/USATF Florida) and then held on for second with a 2:17.71 800m to tally 6,184. Atherley, who was second in the long jump at 6.21m/20-4.5, clocked 2:11.05 in the 800m and scored 6,154 for bronze. Chari Hawkins, (San Diego, California/USATF San Diego-Imperial) the USATF Indoors pentathlon champion, was the other athlete to surpass 6,000, totaling 6,031 in fourth. A full list of results can be found here. Join the conversation with USATF on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using the hashtag #USATF.