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Ducks pack both barrels to Seattle
Huskies lacking numbers in
dual with Oregon men
By John Healy
Of thm EmmraU
Don't look for a close team battle Saturday in
Seattle when Oregon faces Washington in a men's
track dual meet
It's doubtful the Huskies have the numbers to keep
up with the Ducks
This is a situation that is becoming increasingly
familiar to Oregon head coach Bill Dellinger, who
watched last week as Oregon rolled to an easy 93-60
win over Louisiana State at Hayward Field
However, Dellinger does see a silver lining
"I would assume we would be the favorite, but they
have some fine athletes back from last year," he says
The Huskies should push Oregon in the weight
events, specifically in the discus and javelin. Mike
Mahovlich, third in the conference javelin competition
last spring, has a career best of 252-3% and will face the
Ducks' Frode Stormyr, who has thrown 253-10 this year
in dual meet competition
In the discus. Oregon's Dean Crouser has thrown
202-2 this spring but has a career best of 213-0. He will
be matched against Doug Woolen, whose throw of
200-9 is second-best to Crouser on the conference
discus list
Crouser hasn't lost in a dual meet this year, having
only been beaten in the Oregon Invitational He also has
bests of 66-7 in the shot put, which is almost two feet
better than anyone else has thrown in the conference
this year, and 195-6 in the hammer, which places him
fifth on the recently released conference list.
Washington will also offer Oregon a challenge in
the 800, where Rob Webster is a surprise leader in the
conference this year with a best of 1:48.8. The Ducks’
David Mack hasn't been pressed this year, and his
career best of 1:46.03 would seem to indicate that he
won’t have problems with Webster.
But the weather may tighten the race considerably.
“The last two times we were up there (in Seattle), it
rained," says assistant coach Dennis Whitby, "and
Lake Washington can be a factor with the wind off of it.
“I don’t know if it will get any better this weekend,”
says Whitby, who worries that the weather will affect
performances in the technique events, as it did in the
LSU meet
"The rain made it hard for some of the athletes like
Phil Christain (high jump) The last two steps to his
approach are very fast, and each time he just slipped,"
Whitby says
It would seem that even with the rain, wind, and
injuries to key Oregon competitors, the Huskies will
have their hands full
Horizontal jumper Lamar Hurd is still trying to come
back from a hamstring injury, so he won't compete
Saturday, and distance runner Bill McChesney won't
run because of hip pain
Don Ward, Oregon's top intermediate hurdler, will
be entered Saturday for his first dual meet competition
this year
The meet will be broadcast by KUGN (590) starting
at 2:45 p m Saturday Oregon will return home to
Hayward Field April 24 for a dual against Kansas
Photo* by Bob Baker
Above, Duck weightman Damn Crouser will battle with
UW’s Doug Woolen while Oregon'a Kria Costello will
run the sprint events tor the women.
Oregon women to go easy
on outclassed Huskies
By Mike Riplinger
Ol tha Emerald
After any tough test, students like to unwind and
take it easy before priming themselves for the next one.
That's exactly what the Oregon women’s track team will
do when they travel to the University of Washington for
a dual with the Huskies Saturday.
Oregon, coming off a big win over No. 1 ranked
UCLA last weekend, should have a much easier time of
it with the Huskies. Washington has some class
athletes, but they lack the depth to compete with
Oregon in team score. So, the Ducks will hold back
some of their runners to rest up for next weekend’s dual
with the powerful University of Arizona.
’’They've got some excellent athletes, but they're
not very deep," said Oregon coach Tom Heinonen.
Heinonen will rest Leann Warren, Kathy Hayes,
Ranza Clark, and Grace Bakari, and will move some
other runners around to new events to break the
monontony of a long season.
“This meet will give us a break," Heinonen said. “It
comes at a perfect time as long as it doesn’t snow,” he
said, looking out the window to check the cloud cover.
“This has been a bad spring — needless to say,”
Heinonen said. "I've never seen it so bad. We are
nowhere near where we could be."
The Huskies’ Jackie Henry (46-0) should give
Ouenna Beasley (46-9%) a lot of competition in the shot
put, and Regina Joyce, the collegiate record holder in
the women’s 3,000 should dominate her event, but the
Huskies should not be able to mount much of a threat to
the Ducks.
Deanna Carr, who split up Oregon’s dominance in
the javelin in the Golden Bear Meet in March, will be
tough, but Oregon's own Lynda Hughes is on a hot
streak and should be able to handle her.
“What more can you say about Lynda — three PR's
(personal records), three school records in three meets
— what more can you ask for? She’s doing very well,"
understated Heinonen.
All of the Oregon throwers are doing well, and if you
have any questions, just ask Scott Irving their coach.
They had a bet with Irving that if they outdistanced the
UCLA women, and if the Ducks won the meet, then they
would get to shave off Irving’s beard.
“I guess they’ll be after his head next," laughed
Heinonen.
Heinonen might hold out more of his athletes than
announced, and move others around to new events,
depending on how the meet goes.
"Al Bonney (Washington's coach) thought in the
past that we were running up the score when we
weren't, and he used to get upset. But now we un
derstand each other much better. We try to set up good
competition when we can, but they don’t have the
athletes we do. We could blow them off into Lake
Washington if we wanted to.
“Al asked me not to run Leann (Warren), and we
solved that problem by not running her, which we were
going to do anyway. He wants Regina Joyce to run fast
and win, which would attract more attention to their
program then if she ran fast and lost.”
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