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Photo by Terry Geraths
Oregon s Debbie Roth tvas one of three University women who
qualified for the finals in the women 's collegiate nationals Thursday in
Los Angeles. Roth blazed to a 4:32.5 time in the 1500 to gain the finals.
The meet continues through Saturday on the UCLA track.
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Relayers, three women qualify
LOS ANGELES — A trio of
Oregon women, as well as its mile
relay team, qualified for the finals
in the opening day of the women’s
collegiate national championships
here Thursday at UCLA.
Mary Stevenson, Ellen
Schmidt and Debbie Roth will all
move into the finals of their re
spective events as the meet,
which features a galaxy of world
class women athletes, continues
today and Saturday.
Stevenson heaved the discus
140-1 to quality in that event, while
Ellen Schmidt ran the 800 in a
school record 2:09.53 to qualify
for the finals. Roth qualified in the
1500 meters with a 4:32.5 effort,
her best performance of the sea
son.
Stevenson and Schmidt will
compete in the finals of their
events today, Schmidt running
against world class runners such
as Colorado State's Wendy
Knudson and Cal State
Northridge’s Julie Brown. Roth will
have to wait for Saturday to take
part in the women s 1500 meter
final.
While the three Oregon indi
viduals were putting themselves
in the finals of the three-day meet,
the mile relay team was setting a
school record to qualify for
Saturday’s finals.
The four-woman squad reeled
off a 3:46.97 mile, almost two and
a half seconds faster than the old
Oregon mark to qualify. Donna
Rose opened the mile with a 56.8
quarter, and was followed by
Georgene Rose’s 57.0 timing,
Carol Amaral’s 57.9 third leg and
Mary Officer’s 55.2 anchor leg.
While the trio of individuals qual
ified for the finals, another four
Ducks missed qualifying, despite
personal bests in two events.
Mary Officer was upset in her
bid to reach the finals in the 100
meter hurdles, and Carol Amaral
missed qualifying in the 100 met
ers by .03 seconds.
In the 800, Sandy Trowbridge
and Robin Baker failed to qualify,
despite personal best efforts.
Trowbridge ran a 2:14.1 heat, four
seconds faster than her previous
best time, while Baker equaled
her quickest mark ever by running
the 800 in 2:14.0.
Blazers must stop 76ers’ big three
PORTLAND. Ore AP — Jack
Ramsay, coach of the Portland
Trail Blazers, says his team must
stop three high-scoring players in
order to beat the Philadelphia
76ers and win the National Bas
ketball Association title.
The 76ers rely on three players
— Julius Erving, George McGin
nis and Doug Collins—for most of
their offense, Ramsay said.
"McGinnis, Codings and Erving
are great individual players,' the
Portland coach said Wednesday.
"You ve got to stop those three
guys, especially Erving. He's
made some fantastic individual
plays."
Ramsay attended the final
game of the Philadelphia-Houston
semifinal series Tuesday night in
Houston.
The Blazers traveled to
Philadelphia Thursday and prac
tice today and Saturday in prep
aration for the championship
series opener Sunday afternoon.
The 76ers rely heavily on their
individual talent, Ramsay said.
“They are a one-on-one play
team," he said. “They don’t have
the team concept that we do, but
they use their one-on-one abilities
very well.
“If we play our team game well,
both offensively and defensively, I
think we ll win.”
"We can’t let them run and we
can't let them set up their one
on-one offense," Ramsay said. "It
means we have to attack quickly
and persistently."
The Blazers, who swept the Los
Angeles Lakers in four straight
games for the Western Confer
ence crown, will have been idle for
eight days by gametime Sunday.
“I think it helps us," Ramsay
said of the layoff. "It enables us to
get Dave Twardzik back in the
game and I think it really helped
Bill Walton get over the physical
Los Angeles series.”
Twardzik, a starting guard, mis
sed the last six Blazer playoff con
tests because of a sprained ankle.
He will be "about 100 per cent" for
Sunday's game Ramsay said.
But rookie Johnny Davis, who
performed well in Twardzik’s ab
sence, will start, the coach said.
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Blickle wins Higdon award
Sally Blickle has been named the winner of the annual Hig
don Award, presented to University's outstanding sophomore for
accomplishment in athletics, citizenship and scholarship.
Blickle, a graduate of St. Mary's Academy in Portland, is a
two-year varsity participant of the women's softball and basket
ball squads
As the starting catcher on this year s softball team, Blickle
holds a .229 batting average and a .941 fielding average. Blickle
was a starting guard on the women's basketball team the last two
years, averaging 4.8 points per contest last season.
Blickle, a Physical Education major, holds a 3.3 cummulative
grade point average
Sally is the ideal player to coach," said women's softball
coach and athletic director Becky Sisley.
Meet set for local youths
Some 300 youngsters are expected to compete when the
Track City Track Club of Eugene stages its Boys and Girls Age
Group Track meet Saturday at Willamette High School, beginning
at 11 a.m.
Entry fee for the meet, which will include sprints, distance
runs, hurdles and field events, is 50 cents. Awards will be given to
the first six places in each event while participant ribbons will be
given to all other competitors.
For more information, contact Fred Spiekerman, 484-9065.
Outings, dinners planned
A series of outings and dinners has been scheduled by the
University to give Quacker Backers a chance to meet with Oregon
coaches.
This afternoon at the Emerald Valley Golf Course near
Creswell, the University wrestling team will hold a benefit golf
tournament and dinner. Cost for the afternoon on the links and an
evening meal, which will be highlighted by door prizes, is $25.
The Duck basketball program will have its fling on the links
Tuesday, May 31 when its golf outing gets underway. Tee-off
times for the sixth annual event are noon to 2 p.m. Cost of the
barbeque steak dinner which will follow is $10.
Upon the return of the men's track team from the NCAA
championships, the annual Track and Field Awards banquet will
be held June 9 at the Valley River Inn. Cost of that affair is also
$10, with a hospitality hour planned for 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m.
Winding up the spring affairs will be a sports social for
Oregon fans at Tex Hager s Ramada Inn in Tualatin, June 14.
Reservations for the two dinners, May 31 and June 9, should
be addressed to Sue Keller, McArthur Court. For more informa
tion, call 686-4485.
EMU Cultural Forum presents
the 7th Annual
Willamette Valley
Folk Festival
May 19, 20, 21
Outdoors on the East Lawn of the EMU
(in the Ballroom in case of rain)
All Events Are Free
Thursday, May 19
I 12:30 pm Rythm Wranglers
1:15 Foothill Flyers
2:00 Woody Harris
2:45 Surprise Headliner
4:30 Slow Buck
5:15 Northern Broadcasters
6:00 Don & Andy
8:00 Bam Dance —- EMU Ballroom
Friday, May 20
11:30 am Raphael
12:15 pm John Hicks & Joe Kassick
1:00 Fiddlin’ Earl Willis
1:45 Hogtrot Nitpickers
2:30 Mark Nelson
3:15 The Kin
4:00 Tumulo String Band
4:45 Grey Sky Bovs
5:30 Ragtime Millionaires
8:00 Les Blanc (Documentary/Filmmaker) —
EMU Ballroom
"Los Brazos" featuring the Nortena music of
the Texas-Mexico Border "A Well Spent Life"
featuring Texas songster Mance Lipscomb
12:00 pm Whidbey Islau.
12:45 High Water String _
1:30 Robert Forest
2:15 Pickin’ Delight
3:00 Cumulo Nimbus
3:45 Friends of the Family
4:30 Ex
5:15 Sig Fig