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Athletics West tests Ducks in Twilight
Photo by Neil Gruenfeider
Oregon steeplechasers Mike Friton (R) and Don Clary will be racing themselves this Saturday night at the
Twilight meet. Sprinter Don Coleman (background) may also see action after a two-week layoff.
Oregon must win this weekend
against hot Huskies in Seattle
Mel Krause is hopinq for the
best.
Oregon's head coach will lead
his squad into Seattle tomorrow to
face Washington’s Huskies in a
do-or-die three game series.
One game is scheduled to start
today at 3 p.m. with a dou
ble header on tap for Saturday,
beginning at 1 p.m.
The Ducks trail Washington
State by five games with six left to
play, in the Northern Division sea
son. Winning all three games
against the Huskies is especially
important to Krause and Oregon,
especially since the Ducks dug
themselves into a hole by drop
ping four tilts to WSU last
weekend.
Krause s squad will be facing a
Washington team that has im
proved since it lost three straight
to Oregon at Howe Field, April 7
and 8, in the Northern Division
opener for both schools.
The Huskies are in the midst of
their best play of the season. Last
weekend Oregon State found how
hot Washington is, losing three of
four games on its own field. The
Huskies rapped out 18 hits in a
second game 12-6 victory in that
senes.
Oregon will be held by Tom
Dodd, who is hitting over .350 and
Ducks face Kamikazes
in wheelchair basketball
a wneeicnair game between
the members of the Oregon bas
ketball team and the Eugene
Kamikaze Wheelchair Club will
highlight the Oregon Wheelchair
Games this weekend.
The Kamikazes, a 19-member
team including five university stu
dents, will provide chairs and a
battle a contingent from the Ducks
team at Mac Court. Game time is 8
p.m. Friday.
On Saturday, 50 handicapped
competitors will play against each
other in the 1978 Oregon Wheel
chair game. Table tennis is
scheduled at 9 a m. at B-14 Ger
linger followed by weight lifting at
Hayward Field at 11 a m. Other
events include swimming ana
water polo at Leighton Pool and a
3.5 cross-country race at 5 p.m.,
before the Twilight Meet.
On Sunday. Olympic and Na
tional competitors will battle in
track and field events at Hayward
Fi eld. At 9 am. the field events are
scheduled to be followed by an
obstacle course race at noon. The
track events will start at 1 p.m. and
finish at four p.m.
Tickets for the basketball game
priced at $2 are available at the
athletic department and at the
door. The other games are free
and the public is encouraged to
see the wheelchair action.
has nine homers, five off Jim Wil
lis’ school record. Dean Kegler,
(7-2) will start one of the games for
Oregon, as will Glenn Fisher, who
threw a two-hitter against Lewis
and Clark Tuesday. Adam Berlin
is a probable starter this weekend.
Eugene All-Stars
beat Oregon
Led by former Oregon State
star Roger McKee, the Eugene
All-Stars tennis team held an edge
in doubles competition to beat
Oregon, 5-4, in action yesterday.
McKee topped the Ducks'
number one singles player, Jim
Wilson, in straight sets, and came
back with George Carlson to beat
Wilson and Tom Goldman in the
doubles competition.
Russ Childers and Tom Greider
captured the lone doubles match
for Oregon.
Eugene All-Stars 5, Oregon 4
Singles — Roger McKee. AS. d Jim Wilson.
Oregon. 6-2, 6-2 Russ Childers. Oregon, d
George Carlson, AS. 6-2. 5-7. 6-2. Tom Greider,
Oregon, d Vic Christenson, AS. 6-4, 0-6. 6-4 Eric
Lehtg, Oregon, d Bil Hoyt. AS. 6-2, 6-1. Jerry
Farmer. AS d Tom Goldman. Oregon 2-6. 6-2,
6-0 Lee Young. AS. d. Don Holman. Oregon 6-2,
63
Exhibition singles — Rune Bogir, AS, d. Jm
Lowell. Oregon. 7-6.62 Mike Demong, Oregon.d.
Larry Vollum. AS, 62, 7-5.
Doubles — McKee-Carlson, d. Wilson
Goldman. 6-4, 6-2 Childers-Greider. d.
Christenson-Holy. 7-6, 7-5. Farmer-Young, d.
Lehto-Lowell. 64, 7-5.
Exhibition doubles — Demong--Holan d.
Bogir-Charig Jackson. 64. 6-4
By MARK STEWART
Of the Emerald
Athletics West will showcase its stable of some of America’s top
distance runners this Saturday at the Twilight meet at Hayward Field,
but coach Harry Johnson said his athletes won’t be trying to set the
world on fire during their first meet of the season.
“We re not going to run big, hot races,’’ said Johnson of his runners.
“We’ll be trying to find out where we re at. I've got no expectations about
results.”
Leading the Eugene-based club are 1976 Olympian Craig Virgin and
runner-up in the 1978 Boston Marathon, Jeff Wells.
Virgin, who was the 1975 NCAA cross-country champion, and Wells
will be joined by teammate Jeff Lodwick, another 1978 Boston
Marathoner, in the 10,000. Oregon's only entrant in the event will be
junior Steve McChesney.
According to Johnson, Wells and Lodwick might not run too well
because they are still feeling the side effects of the marathon.
“It takes about three weeks to recover," said Johnson about Wells
and Lodwick. “I don’t know what to expect from them. I told them to take
a conservative approach to the race and feel their way around.”
In the 3,000, Athletics West will have Tiny Kane and Mike Manke.
Kane has a personal best time of 3:39.3 in the 1,500 and Manke was
fourth in the 1976 Olympic Trials in the 1,500. Johnson, who said he is
having his athletes running longer distances than they will run later in
the summer, except for those in the 10,000, said that Manke will be in his
first 3,000 ever. Entered in the event for Oregon will be Alberto Salazar
and Bill McChesney.
Athletics West will challenge Rudy Chapa in the 5,000 with George
Malley, who set the American record in the steeplechase last year
When asked if Malley would give Chapa a good race, Johnson said
“Rucy is very fit; I don’t know where George is at. I’d be a fool if I told him
to run with Chapa. I told him to run with his training in perspective.’’
Johnson, who said his team consists fo post-graduate runners, is
gearing the team’s training for summer meets in Europe. “It doesn’t
make much sense to run in Oregon in March and April. I even ques
tion racing in May. I don’t expect us to be in some of the races. Athletics
West athletes are entered only in the 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000.
Oregon coach Bill Dellinger expects the Athletics West gang to run
tough despite the lack of competition this early in their season.
“(Steve) McChesney is not capable of running with Virgin,” said
Dellinger. “The 3,000 will be interesting between Matt Centrowitz and
Salazar and Kane and Manke. It will be a tough race."
The Twilight Meet is basically an intra-squad meet with some invited
competitors. One of those invited is Colin Anderson of the University of
Chicago Track Club, who has put the shot 66 feet. He will
give Jeff Stover, Dave Voorhees and Vince Goldsmith stiff competition.
Voorhees, Stover and red-shirt Ray Burton will compete on Sunday in
the UCLA-Pepsi Invitational Meet in Los Angeles against some of the
best collegians in the country.
Pole vaulter Tom Hintnaus, who missed the vaulting pit again on
Saturday warming up for Oregon State meet, will be back in action in the
Twilight. According to Dellinger, Hintnaus discovered he was having
problems with one particular pole and has switched. “It was his decision
that it was the pole and not him and that is helping his confidence,” said
Dellinger.
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