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Injured Ducks pull unprecedented Pac-8fourth
LOS ANGELES — It would be
an understatement to say that Bill
Dellinger was less than pleased
with the Ducks’ fourth place finish
during this weekend’s Pacific-8
Conference Track Champion
ships at UCLA.
The team that beat notables
such as Arizona and Washington
State in dual meetings earlier this
season and was predicted to
finish second, couldn’t muster
enough points — let atone any in
dividual victories — to even be
considered a runner-up behind
Southern California’s 146 point
win. Washington State took sec
ond with 132 points, UCLA got 99
and the Ducks clinched fourth with
791/2 points, pne and a half points
ahead of Washington.
Dellinger was banking on points
in the high jump and 1500 meter
run. Oregon’s seven-foot jumper
Jan From couldn't clear any height
and Greg Fries tied for sixth at
6’10” for ha If a point. Butbyfarthe
sorest spot in Dellinger’s mind
was the 1500 meters in which de
fending Pac-8 champion Peter
Spir dropped out of the race with a
lap to go because of “dead legs”
while Oregon’s Randal Markey
trailed the field in 3:52.
California’s Andy Clifford won
the race in 3:42.3.
Spir, who finished fifth in his
heat of an 800 meter the day be
fore, commented, “I don’t know
what it was....I ran hard on the
second lap but my legs from the
knees down were dead.”
Markey was still suffering from
clogged sinuses
Bruce Nelson finished fourth in
that event in a personal best
3:44.1 for Oregon.
Dellinger was also counting on
points from shot putter Howard
Banich and javelin thrower Jim
Smith but injuries kept them from
performing as they had hoped.
Banich’s 55’81/2" netted him
eighth in the shot put while Smith’s
painful elbow forced him to
scratch after throwing 167’10" on
his first and only attempt.
Dave Hagmeier’s ankle injury
got worse after the Friday’s
400-meter hurdle preliminaries
and he managed only a seventh
as did Gary Sievers in the 800
meters and Anthony Berry in the
triple jump.
Bright spots were there, how
ever, as Dacre Bowen recorded a
personal best 46.1 in getting
fourth in the 400 meters and Rudy
Chapa and Alberto Salazar
finished thrid and fourth in the
10,000 and 5,000 meters.
Larry Hurst and Don Clary got
personal bests in the steeplech
ase in 8:42.5 and 8:44 respec
tively but they were second and
third behind WSU's Henry Rono
who won the event in 8:35.4.
Rono’s first lap was a blistering
62-second equivalent as he liter
ally ran away from the rest of the
field.
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Women second in NW
SEATTLE — University of
Oregon set school records in the
mile, two-mile and 400-meter re
lays, winning all three events here
in meet records as the Ducks
finished second in the Northwest
College Women s Sports Associa
tion (NCWSA), Championship
meet with 106 points.
Seattle Pacific University, win
ning eight of the 18 events, won
the two-day meet for the third
straight time with 156 points.
Coach Tom Heinonen was par
ticularly pleased with his two-mile
relay squad. Debbie Roth ran a
season's best 800 meter in 2:14
on the third leg of the relay while
Sandy Trowbridge led off for
Oregon with a lifetime best 2:17.5.
Robin Baker ran the second 800
meter in 2:17.1 and Ellen Schmidt
anchored the 40-yard win in
2:18.2.
The 9:07 clocking broke the
school record of 9:20.3 in that
event giving the Ducks the fifth
fastest two-mile relay time in the
nation going into the national
AIAW Championships this Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday in Los
Angeles.
Oregon’s mile relay squad of
Dawna Rose, Mary Officer, Ellen
Schmidt and Georgene Rose set
a new school and meet record
with a time of 3:49.6, breaking the
old NCWSA record of 3:57.2 set
by Seattle Pacific last year.
Senior Mary Officer picked up
the most individual points for
Oregon as she won the 100-meter
hurdles in a photo-finish decision
with Kathleen Kilpatrick of Central
Washington. Officer’s time was
14.6. Besides running on the 400
meter and mile relays, she picked
up a second in the long jump, los
ing to Seattle Pacific's Vicki Stum
by only half an inch.
‘They had the long jump run
crazy,” noted Officer, who ques
tioned the legality of the long jump
officiating. “They let the winner's
jump carry over from yesterday
and that’s why she won. She was
jumping in the 17-foot range today
(Saturday) and I had two jumps
over 18 feet.”
Sprinter Carol Amaral won the
100 meter in 12.1 despite a strong
headwind that affected perfor
mances in the sprint events.
Teammate Dawna Rose was
second in the 100 meter in 12.5.
Amaral finished second to Cen
tral Washington State’s Pam
Riggs whose winning time of 24.9
was a new meet record. Amaral’s
time of 25.1 was disappointing for
her. “I really wanted to beat that
Riggs,” she said, but complained
of a pulled muscle in the groin
area which might have hindered
her attempt.
Oregon picked up first, fifth and
sixth places in the 800 meter, led
by Ellen Schmidts's new meet re
cord 2:11.5, breaking the old meet
record of 2:17.1 set by teammate
Sandy Trowbridge in the pre
liminaries.
“I had hoped Ellen would run a
little faster than she did,” said
Coach Tom Heinonen, “but the
conditions up there were pretty
rotten. She really ran a sound, tac
tical race though, and I think
there’s more left there to go fas
ter.”
Trowbridge finished sixth in a
personal best 2:15.8 while
Oregon’s Debbie Roth nabbed
fifth place in 2:15.7.
Monday, May IB, 1977