Duck women edge Arizona 66-61
Excellent marks, coaching mistakes equal victory sans Warren
Photo by David Corny
Kathy Hayes
By Mike Ripllnger
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It was a strange track meet
The Oregon women outdueled the
University of Arizona 66-61 in the sun
Saturday at Hayward Field — without Leann
Warren, who was out with a viral infection
The meet provided some excellent
marks, close finishes, and weird coaching
moves, as the Oucks took advantage of
some luck to defeat the Wildcats
“it was a bizarre meet," said Oregon
coach Tom Heinonen “But I’m realty im
pressed with the great performances that
some of our people had to get the win "
Arizona had some great performances
themselves, but one of them went for
naught Joy Hansen, who won the 1,500
meters earlier in the meet, ran as a non
scorer in the 800, which she also won. If
she had counted, Arizona would have won
the meet 64-63.
’’That’s the way it goes,’’ said Arizona
coach Chris Murray "We ended up making
a mistake We hoi one girt who was up
because her sister goes to Oregon and two
others who were fresh because they didn't
run in the 1,500. Joy ran a strong race in
the 1,500 earlier, so we thought it would be
best not to count her.
"If we had to do it over again, we would
probably do it differently, but that's the way
it goes — live and learn, " Murray said
Arizona also had Robin Marks, last year's
AIAW champion in the 400 meter hurdles,
disqualified from the 100 hurdles because
of two false starts Oregon's Chris Costello
also was disqualified in the 100 hurdles,
leaving the Ducks' Lexie Miller as an easy
winner.
Marks did come back in the 400 hurdles
to beat Miller, but Arizona ended up getting
only a single point in the 100 hurdles
The Wildcats also lost out in the high
jump when Charmaine Gale, the world
junior champion who has topped 6-5,
placed second to Oregon's Jeanne Bor
chardt. who set a school record with a jump
of 5-10.
Arizona may have made mistakes to let
Oregon in the meet, but the Ducks took
advantage of that with some impressive
marks of their own. Borchardt's, was just
one of a number of excellent marks made
by the Ducks.
Freshman Kathy Hayes showed her
steady improvement by breaking Eryn
Forbes’ school record in the 5.000 by more
than 23 seconds Forbes finished a close
second, losing by only 3 seconds
Oregon's Miller showed her usual versa
tility by adding a victory in the tong jump,
and a second in the 400 hurdles to her
victory in the 100 hurdles Grace Bakari,
normally a 400 runner, won the shorter 100
and 200 sprints
Oregon showed a tot of grit in winning
the meet without their automatic winner,
Leann Warren
“To beat a team as good as Arizona
without Leann is a major accomplishment
for everyone,” said Oregon coach Tom
Heinonen “Leann gets a huge amount of
attention, and deservedly so, but I'm happy
that everyone else could pull together and
win this without her I'm really happy for
them."
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Saturday’s regatta marked
two more milestones for the
Oregon crew.
First, Oregon crew hosted five
other teams at the first annual
Dexter Spring Regatta at Dexter
Reservoir It was the first event
ever hosted by the Oregon team.
In addition to hosting Oregon
Institute of Technology, Portland
Rowing club, Lewis and Clark
Portland Junior Rowing Club, and
Reed College, the Oregon club
swept events, a first in Oregon
history
Not only did Oregon take first in
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all races, but also landed second
places in the final heats of the
men's novice four and women's
novice four races
Oregon's women's light eight
won their second straight race
Coming off a win at the Corvallis
Regatta, the four sprinted home in
a close race against Lewis and
Clark
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next Saturday
The Oregon men's tennis
team took an 8-1 beating at the
hands of Washington State
University Friday, dropping their
record on the year to 8-8
The Ducks took two pivotal
losses in singles play that could
have changed the outcome of the
match In 2nd singles, Don Hal
tock lost a three-set decision to
WSU’s Pat Merrigan, 6-4, 1-6,
6-3. Then, after Ron Elvin took a
6-4, 6-3 win in third singles,
Oregon fell behind 4-1 in the
match when both Wade Judy at
No. 4 and Bob Coron at No. 5 lost
The second big match was at
No. 6 singles Todd DeNeff took a
one-set lead over WSU's Scott
Schadler with a 7-5 win, but lost
the next two sets 6-0, 6-2. Thus, a
possible 4-2 deficit turned into a
5-1 deficit, and the Cougars had
the match wrapped up
Oregon now travels to Portland
for an April 26 match against
Lewis and Clark The Ducks
should have little trouble with the
Pioneers, a team they defeated
9-0 when the two teams met on
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Berkeley stay short;
Ducks drop squeakers
By Paul Danzer
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Oregon's softball bats,
which roared to life in the final
three innings of a 10-9 loss to
the University of San Francisco
Thursday morning, made only
a peep Friday morning against
Utah The Oregon women
made their appearance in the
annual Berkeley Invitational a
short one by losing to the lady
Utes, 1-0, to eliminate them
selves early
The Duck women relin
quished a run in the game's
first inning, which hardly
seemed like anything to worry
about compared to the 8-0
hole they had dug themselves
the previous morning After
that the Oregon defense
turned stingy and Duck pitcher
Stephanie Heisler gave Utah
nothing but trouble the rest of
the way en route to a
three-hitter
Unfortunately for Oregon,
Utah's defense was equally
tough as the Duck batters tried
in vain to pound the ball
through the infield For the
second day in a row the Duck
women came up with too little
too late
But also for the second day
in a row, third baseman Katie
Hickie was center stage
Thursday against the Dons it
took a great play by the second
baseman on a Hickie drive to
put the skids to an incredible
Duck rally Friday Hickie col
lected the Ducks' only hit as
the Ducks were once again
stymied in the seventh inning
In addition to a free day for
sight seeing, Oregon coach
Photo by Dana Cony
Charles Sytvester
Charles Sylvester found
several things to be pleased
about despite leaving the Bay
Area with the first two losses of
the season tagged on his team
One of those things was the
play of Hickie, who the coach
described as the best all
around third baseman he has
seen this season. Another
pleasing thought tor the coach
was the pitching of Heisler,
who came in Thursday to
shutdown USF while the Ducks
were coming back
“I would've liked to come
away with two wins rather than
what they call a learning ex
perience,” said Sylvester.
"We re ready to play anyone
in the west now," Sylvester
said "Now they know they can
compete, " he said of his team
Oregon's next chance to
compete will come this after
noon when they travel to
Southern Oregon for a dou
ble-header beginning at 2 p.m