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Rono challenges Salazar at WSU
By JOHN HEALY
Of the Emerald
If Washington State’s Henry Rono can
return to his world-record form of two
years ago, Oregon might be in trouble
Saturday when the Ducks face the
Cougars in a dual track meet.
But Rono’s matchups with Oregon’s
Mike Friton in the steeplechase and Al
berto Salazar in the 5,000 meters won’t
be the only tough head-to-head con
frontation that Saturday’s meet in Pull
man will offer.
David Mack, who set a personal best of
1:46.67 last year and finished sixth in the
NCAA championships, will face the
Cougar’s Sotirois Moutsanas, the Greek
national champion (1:46.7).
Oregon’s Jon Switzer, fifth-place fin
isher at last year’s NCAA meet (17-0 this
year, 17-9 personal best), takes on Greg
Ernst, who sports a career best of 17-1 'A.
The javelin offers Reidar Lorentzen of
Oregon (265-0) against Laslo Babits
(252-1) of Washington State. Lorentzen
won the Pacific-10 title last year, but he
has been hampered by back problems
this spring. He managed tosses of 253-6
against Washington and 234-2 versus
Auburn in Oregon’s last two dual meets.
Oregon’s Larry Bradley (10.53 this
year) will be tested by Georges Kablan
(10.60) in the 100. In the 200, Bradley will
match his best time this year of 21.22
(20.95 career best) against Chris Whit
lock (20.9) and Kablan (20.71 career
best).
And finally, Oregon’s 400-meter relay
quartet of Bradley, Parrish Nixon, Mark
James and Jerome Walker will be
pushed by the Cougar’s relay team (40.8
this year). The Ducks have won the short
relay in both of their dual meets this year.
"This week will provide much more of
a test,’’ says Oregon coach Bill Dellinger.
"Washington State is a good team. They
have really good people in almost all the
field events and are pretty good on the
track, too."
Rono was easily the finest runner ever
to don a Washington State track jersey
when he was in the process of setting
four world records in 1978. His times of
7:32.1 in the 3,000 meters, 8:05.4 in
steeplechase, 13:08.4 in the 5,000 and
27:22.4 in the 10,000 haven’t been chal
lenged since he set them.
But a boycott of the 1980 summer
Olympics by his native country, Kenya,
dampened much of Rono’s enthusiasm.
He has only run 9:00.87 in the steeple
chase this spring and 14:03.2 in the
5,000.
Photo by Steve Dykes
Alberto Salazar will match up against WSU's
Henry Rono in the 5,000 meter Saturday.
Baseball team
begins series
with Beavers
Oregon’s baseball squad,
with two straight victories under
its belt, returns to Northern
Division competition today and
Saturday with a three-game
series against Oregon State.
The Ducks, 11-7, travel to
Corvallis today for a 3 p.m.
game with OSU. The teams then
come to Howe Field Saturday
for a doubleheader. The first
game starts at 1 p.m.
Left fielder Steve Crum con
tinues to lead Oregon batters
with a .431 average, including
six homers. Teammates Randy
Porter and James Nutt are bat
ting .383 and .368, respectively.
As a team, the Ducks have a
.280 average.
Oregon, with a 0-2 record in
the Northern Division, has al
ready seen two division games
cancelled because of rain. Last
weekend's three-game series
with University of Washington
was washed out.
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