Reporter Todd Milles filed this story minutes ago from Pasco. Bellarmine Prep distance runner Nicole Cochrane was disqualified ten minutes after the 3,200 meters ended -- a race she won and ran a personal-best 10 minutes, 32 seconds -- for taking three steps inside the line on the first lap.

Here's the lead to the article:

Ready for instant replay to hit Washington's high school track and field circuit?
After what transpired late in the evening session of Star Track XXVI on Friday night, the line of supporters might be long.
What was going swimmingly for the Bellarmine Prep Lions, the steely-built program that was ready to challenge the Class 4A state team points record, suddenly turned badly, swallowed up one of the most controversial and heatedly-contested disqualifications in state-meet history.
Lions senior Nicole Cochran had just turned in her personal-best time of 10 minutes, 36 seconds in what she thought was a successful defense of her 4A girls 3,200-meter crown at Edgar Brown Stadium.
Ten minutes later, Bellarmine Prep coach Matt Ellis got word that meet officials had ruled Cochran, in the next-to-last lap of the race, had made three consecutive steps on the line inside lap one, which is an infraction and immediate disqualification.
Enraged, Ellis argued on that lap – in the last turn – Cochran had made her move to the outside of the pack to take the lead, which she did, and never relinquished.
Ellis and Lions athletic director Ed Ploof filed an appeal, which was reviewed and denied.
Meet officials then announced Shadle Park's Andrea Nelson, who finished in 10:40.04, was the winner.
"That's not fair. She won," Nelson said. "She totally deserves it. She crushed everybody."
As the girls were introduced on the awards stand, Cochran stood in the background, politely clapping and obviously disappointed. Once it was over, Nelson came over and gave Cochran the first-place medal.
"It's nothing (a meet official) does light-heartedly," said Le Burns, the meet's co-director. "They were adamant the number on the hip. They were adamant about the person and who they were, and where they ran … and watched several laps of it."
The shake-up has certainly done one thing: The 4A girls team race is up for grabs now.