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Ducks muster only eight points in NCAA’s
Photo by Terry Geraths
Discus hurler Ray Burton was one of Oregon's few bright spots as the
Ducks collected just eight points in the NCAA track and field cham
pionships, which wound up Saturday in Champaign, III. Burton finished
third in the discus behind UTEP's Svein Walvik and Southern Cal's
Talph Ruguglietti. Dave Taylor was the only other Oregon trackster to
chalk up points, finishing fifth in the 5,000 meters.
.Spor^olio —
Stickmen close with victory
PORTLAND—The Oregon Lacrosse Club closed its season
in winning fashion here Saturday by dumping the Portland La
crosse Club, 18-7.
The win gave the Ducks an 8-2 record in Pacific Northwest
Lacrosse Association (PNLA) play, good enough for second
place. Seattle won the league, finishing with a 9-1 record.
Overall, the Oregon stickmen were 10-3 for the season.
Vozenilek-Borchers team falls
TEMPE, Ariz.—Helen Vozenilek and Debbie Borchers were
eliminated from the women’s collegiate national championships
here last week, falling to Penny Johnson and Robin Dawson of
Cal State — Long Beach 6-1, 6-2, in doubles play.
The Duck netters closed the season with a 12-6 season
record.
Sigma Chi tops IM circuit
Sigma Chi, exploding for six runs in the top half of the sixth
inning, defeated Theta Chi, 16-11, in the Intramural A Softball
championship Thursday.
Dave Cooper hurled the victory for Sigma Chi.
Banquet to honor track men
The University’s men's track team will be honored with a
track banquet next Thursday evening beginning at 6:30 p.m. at
the Valley River Inn.
Cost of the dinner is $10. For more information and tickets,
contact Sue Keller at the University’s athletic department, exten
sion 4485.
Women’s awards available
Certificates of merit and participation are now available for
women athletes who competed at the intercollegiate level in
1976-77. Athletes who did not collect their certificate at the
awards dessert should do so before the end of spring term.
The certificates are available at the Women’s Intercollegiate
Office, Geriinger Hall.
CHAMPAIGN, III. — If nothing
else is salvaged from its just con
cluded season, the Oregon track
team can at least make one big
boast: It beat the NCAA champ
ions, Arizona State, during the
dual season.
But when they left their dual
schedule and went to the NCAA
championships, the Ducks didn’t
fare as well as they have in the
past. Oregon scored just eight
points on a pair of top-five finishes
to gain its lowest national output in
27 years when the collegiate finals
wound up here Saturday.
Arizona State, which Oregon
defeated at Hayward Field last
April, easily out-pointed runner-up
University of Texas-EI Paso,
64-50 for the title, ASU’s first ever.
Three Pac-8 schools, University
of Southern California, Washing
ton State and UCLA, finished in
order behind the Sun Devils and
UTEP.
Stanford, 10th with 16 points,
University of Washington, 15th
with 11 points, Oregon, 20th with
eight points, Oregon State, 21st
with four points and California,
22nd with two points, rounded out
the rest of the Pac-8 entries.
Ray Burton picked up nearly all
of Oregon's points with a lifetime
best of 197-11 in the discus finals
Saturday. Burton was edged by
UTEP’s Svein Walvik, who threw
198-11 for first place, and USC’s
Ralph Fruguglietti, who tossed the
disc 198-2.
Burton had qualified for the fi
nals in Friday's prelims heaving a
191-foot throw, a personal best
before his toss in the finals. Burton
also met the AAU qualifying dis
tance of 196-10 with his finals ef
fort.
Dave Taylor picked up the
Ducks' other two points by running
a lifetime best in the 5,000 meter
finals and finishing fifth. The Duck
senior, who made his third con
secutive trip to the NCAA’s and
was looking for his first points, co
vered the distance in 13:45.82.
Taylor had qualified for the fi
nals along with freshman Alberto
Salazar Thursday, but while
Taylor was able to knock more
than 15 seconds off his 14:01.0
qualifying time, Salazar couldn't
and ended up finishing ninth in the
finals.
Salazar had run a 14:02.66
Thursday to qualify with Taylor,
but managed just a 14:08.4 in the
finals, despite a season best of
13:47.8 earlier this spring.
The only other Ducks to make
their way into the top 10 during the
three-day meet were steeple
chaser Larry Hurst and pole vaulter
Tom Hintnaus. Hurst, who has a
season best of 8:42.5, turned in an
8:57.0 in the finals to finish ninth.
Surprisinly, WSU’s Henry Rono
finished second in that event, but
not so surprisingly it was to
another Kenyan, TEEP’s James
Munyala.
Hintnaus cleared 16-0 the first
day to qualify for finals, but was
later unable to clear 16-6 and set
tled for seventh place. If he’d been
able to reach his season and per
sonal best of 16-10 he would have
netted third place behind Arkan
sas State’s Earl Bell, who vaulted
17-6 and UCLA’s Mike Tully, who
cleared 17-0.
One of the biggest disappoint
ments from the Ducks’ point of
view was the performance of
hammer thrower John McArdle,
who had moved among the
nation's leaders with his 195-4
throw at the NCAA preparation
meet two weeks ago.
McArdle failed to get a legal
mark in all three qualifying throws,
hitting the side of the protective
cage with one, falling down on
another and missing the sector
with his third attempt.
Dacre Bowen, who had qual
ified for the 400 meters semi-finals
with a 49.60 time Thursday, dip
ped to 49.94 and failed to qualify
for the finals.
Rudy Chapa ran in the 10,000
meter finals Friday and posted a
29:42.4 time to come in 13th.
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to win championship
PORTLAND (ap) — The Port
land Trail Blazers completed
their stunning rise to the top of the
pro basketball world Sunday by
defeating the Philadelphia 76ers
109-107 behind another brilliant
all-around performance by center
Bill Walton.
It was the culmination of a re
markable season for the Blazers,
born of expansion, nurtured
through six losing years marked
by bickering and frustration and
never before in the playoffs.
Portland, under the masterful
direction of Coach Jack Ramsay,
used teamwork, poise, a pressure
defense and a disciplined attack
to overcome the multi-talented
76ers four games to two in the
best-of-seven National Basketball
Association championship series.
Walton, who scored and re
bounded in double figures in every
game of the series, had 20 points,
23 rebounds, 7 assists and 8
blocked shots in Sunday’s finale.
He was named the Most Valuable
Player of the championship
series.
Bob Gross added 24 points and
Lionel Hollins 20 for the Blazers to
offset another remarkable effort
by Philadelphia’s Julius Erving,
the game’s high scorer with 40
points.
The Blazers built a 15-point
lead in the second quarter, then
saw Philadelphia move to within
two points on George McGinnis’
jumper with 18 seconds to go.
After an inbounds pass by Port
land, McGinnis tied up Gross for a
jump ball and controlled the tap to
Lloyd Free. But the Sixers missed
three shots at lying the score.
Erving had a jumper bounce off
the back rim, Free had a shot
blocked by Walton and McGinnis
missed a short jumper with two
seconds left.
The Blazers won the title the
hard way, losing the first two
games of the final series but then
regrouping to become only the
second team in the NBA’s 31-year
history to erase a 2-0 deficit and
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