Jordan Malone, leading from the start of the 1,000 final, slid into the wall, allowing Davis to skate to the lead, followed closely by Travis Jayner and Trevor Marsicano. Malone was able to race later in the 3,000 and qualified for a World Cup spot.

"I know I'm not out of it yet," Malone said after his 1,000-meter falter. "(The World Cup) is a good starter for the Olympics. You're better off if you make it, but you're not done if you don't."

Davis finished in 1 minute, 35.030 seconds, with Jayner (1:35.410), Marsicano (1:36.060) and Malone (1:53.500) finishing second through fourth, respectively.

Davis coasted to victory in the 3,000, with the key battle right behind him. Ryan Bedford, who came into Saturday's competition in fifth place, had dropped to seventh before the 3,000.

"The whole idea of it for me was to stay up near the front," Bedford said. "Shani took the lead with six or seven laps to go, and he's a good guy to drop behind. I wasn't racing for first. I knew second would put me on the team."

The World Cup is Oct. 20-22 in Changchun, China. The men's team will consist of: Davis, Jeff Simon, Jayner, Anthony Lobello, Bedford and Malone. Bedford finished second and Malone third. Marsicano, who held the fifth of six spots in qualifying, finished seventh, dropping him off the team.

"There's a lot of talent out here," said Jack Mortell, vice president of U.S. Speedskating. "We are very strong on the men's side, with Shani being the class of the field. He's just a tremendous skater."

In the women's 1,000, Kimberly Derrick, leading the World Cup qualifying coming into Saturday, skated to victory, followed closely by M. Tina Koenig.

The margin of victory was two-thousandths of a second, but after the race, Koenig downplayed the race's importance.

"We kind of just took it easy, because we (the four who skated in the final) are on the World Cup team. We just didn't want to get disqualified, or do anything stupid like getting hurt."

Derrick (1:41.050) was followed by Koenig (1:41.050), Katherine Reutter (1:41.280) and Mary Grace (1:42.690).

In the 3,000 meter, Alyson Dudek finished in the middle of the pack to take the seventh spot. She qualified because of an age restriction that keeps Grace out of the World Cup. U.S. Speedskating requires qualifiers be 15 years old before the previous July 2.

The women's team will be Derrick, Koenig, Reutter, Cherise Wilkins, Lana Gehring and Dudek. Grace would have qualified fifth with 981 points.

"There's a lot of competition on the women's side," Mortell said. "The doors are wide open."

Notes: Lezleigh Jaworski fell Friday during her 1,500-meter race and was carted off. Medical officials refused to specify her status, saying simply "she's doing much better." Pettit officials said she did not sustain any breaks or sprains.