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This time it’s San Jose
By MARK STEWART
Of the Emerald
For the third week in a row,
another one of the nation’s best
track teams comes to Eugene for
a Saturday afternoon meet with
the men's track team.
The Duck's opponent this
weekend is San Jose State, the
best track team in the Pacific
Coast Athletic Association over
the past seven years. In that time,
San Jose State has finished sec
ond three times and first four times
in league title meets and has a
dual meet record of 68-16. Last
year the Spartans finished first in
the PCAA and 12th in the NCAA.
In 1975, they were the best team
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in the PCAA and fourth best in the
nation.
According to assistant coach
Frank Morris, San Jose is strong
in all but the distance events. To
get the Spartans to Eugene,
the Ducks had to give up the
steeplechase, which Oregon
would have swept, Morris said.
San Jose State has two return
ing NCAA champions this year in
Dedy Cooper and Ron Livers.
Cooper was champ in the high
hurdles and Livers first in the triple
jump. Morris said the Ducks would
have no trouble at all in those two
events — they’ve been con
ceeded to the Spartans.
Cooper has been world-ranked
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women comD iNonnwesi
in search of AIAW marks
By KEVIN HACKETT
Of the Emerald
Following three straight dual
meets, the Oregon women s track
team will spread out across the
Northwest in an attempt to qualify
various teams and individuals for
the AIAW national championships
to be held in Knoxville, Tenn. in
May.
Coach Tom Heinonen’s ath
letes will be competing in Eugene,
Gresham and Seattle over the
IM track meet
to start today
The University’s Intramural de
partment will begin its 1978 track
and field meet Friday, April 21,
with preliminary competition in
five events, a final competition in
the 880-yard run and sign-ups for
the mile run.
The men’s events will start at
3:30 p.m., while the women’s
competition in each event is
scheduled to start following the
running of each men’s event.
All entries will be accepted at
the Hayward Field track, with the
maximum number of events any
one person can enter set at three.
Track spikes are not allowed.
Events scheduled to be today
are the 70-yard hurdles, 440-yard
run, 100-yard dash, 440 relay,
long jump and 880-yard run. Con
testants for the one mile run must
register for the Tuesday’s final
today.
Men’s and Woman * Evant*
1. 70 hurdle* (39") — Prelm* Friday, Apn! 21
Finals Friday. April 28
2.440-yard run—Pro! ms Friday. April 21 Finals
Friday. April 28.
3. One mile — Finals only but contestants must
sign-up tor event on Friday, April 21 Finals Tues
day, April 25.
4 100-yard dash — Prelms Friday. April 21.
Finals Friday. April 26.
5. 440-yard relay — Prelime Friday. April 21.
Fnals Friday. April 28
6. Shot (12 pounds) — Prelims Tuesday, April
25. Finals Friday. April 28.
7. Long jump — Prsima Friday, April 21 Finals
Friday. April 28.
8. High jump — Final went Tuesday. April 25.
9. 880-yard run — Finai event Friday, April 21.
4:30 p.m.
weekend. Things get under way
this afternoon at 3 with the running
of the Oregon Pentathalon. The
pentathalon is the women s equi
valent of the decathlon run by the
men. The participants compete in
the 100-meter hurdles, shot put,
long jump, high jump and the
800-meter run. Points are
awarded on the basis of marks at
tained in each event rather than
on competition with the oppo
nents.
Oregon’s lone competitor will
be Kori Hasselblad. The junior
from Portland has a lifetime best
of 3,044 in the pentathlon. A total
of 3,400 is-needed to qualify for
nationals.
Joining Hasselblad will be
former Oregon all-around star
Mary Officer. Heinonen said Of
ficer is coming out of “retirement'
for the meet and will compete un
attached. Officer holds the school
record in the event at 3,858. She
also holds five other school marks
including the high jump, long
jump, 100-meter hurdles,
400-meter hurdles, and the
400-meter run.
Oregon College of Education's
Norma Pyle will also compete.
Pyle placed in the nationals in
1976 and is looking to meet the
qualifying standard for this year’s
meet.
Oregon’s mile relay team of
Georgerte and Dawna Rose, Deb
bie Adams and Melanie Batiste
will trek north to the Seattle Relays
in search of competition. The
team has already qualified for the
nationals but sprint coach Mark
Stream hopes the teams in Seat
tle will provide the caliber of com
petition the team will face at the
nationals. They have a best of
3:49.8 this year but Stream thinks
they’ll be capable of running 3:45
this weekend.
The rest of the sprinters and the
throwers will be in Gresham
Saturday at 5 p.m. for the Mt.
Hood Relays. Heinonen has de
cided to give his distance runners
the weekend off.
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in his specialty for the past two
years, and was one of the world's
best intermediate hurdlers in
1976. He finished fourth in the
high hurdles in the 1976 Olympic
Trials.
San Jose State’s Mike Kirkman
gives the Spartans a good one
two punch in the high hurdles.
Both he (14.1) and Cooper (13.8)
have recorded faster times this
year than the Duck’s Mike Chriss
(14.89) and Chris Goodrich
(14.81).
Livers, in addition to being
NCAA champ in the triple jump,
set the NCAA record in the event
in the US-USSR meet last year,
the longest triple jump in the world
last year. As a freshman, Livers
set the world record in the high
jump at 7-1/4, but has not come
dose to that mark this year. He
was PCAA champ last year, jump
ing 6-10, and has gone 7-1 this
spring.
San Jose State could give
Oregon real trouble in the high
jump, with Keith Nelson and Sly
Pritchett both having cleared
seven feet this year. Oregon’s Jon
Ogard and Jan From both cleared
that height.
In the sprints, San Jose's Ron
Whitaker and Marcus Washington
will give Andrew Banks and Don
Coleman all they can handle.
Whitaker red-shirted last year, but
in 1976 he was second in the
PCAA in the 200 and fourth in the
100. In 1975 he was fourth in the
NCAA in the 200. Washington, a
freshman, has ru n 10.4 in the 100
In the pole vault, the Spartans
have a 17-6 vaulter in Greg
Woepse, though he has only
deared 16-6 this year. How well
Oregon will do depends on how
well Tom Hintnaus has recovered
from missing the vaulting pit in
practice before the UCLA meet.
The Ducks are also threatened
in the javelin by Frank Dajak, the
1977 PCAA champ, who has a
lifetime best of 248-0 and a best
this year of 222-7. Oregon coun
ters with Ron Perkins (season
best of 223-3V2) and Todd Lovell
(best of 220-11).
Oregon has a little breathing
room in the shot put, with both Jeff
Stover and Dave Voorhees hav
ing thrown better than Bob Feuer
bach and Bob Gummerson (both
58-8V4). Vince Goldsmith of
Oregon is right behind with a best
throw this year of 58-6V4.
In the distances, Oregon should
have a relatively easy time.
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Photo by Mike Baer
Oregon higti jumper Jan From will face three seven-foot jumpers from
San Jose State this Saturday as the Spartans- visit Hayward Field at
12:30.
Jack Patera
to coach alums
Jack Patera, a former offensive
guard at Oregon and now the
head coach of the Seattle Sea
hawks professional football team,
will coach the alumni in the
varsity-alumni game that will cap
Oregon's spring training drills.
The game is scheduled for
Saturday, May 13.
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