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She’s ahead of her time
Photo by Bob Baker
Hays has the fastest collegiate time turned In
this yar tor the 3,000 meters.
Frosh Hayes breaking
own records weekly
By Steve Friedman
For tho BmoratO
Week and week, record after record, Kathy
Hayes is establishing herself as a premier middle
distance runner
The Oregon freshman is the Ducks' most
versatile runner and has been burning up tracks with
lightning-fast times in the 800, 1,500, 3,000 and
5,000-meter races
Since joining the Ducks, she has finished first
five times, second twice, and third four times in her
first season for the Ducks. She has broken her
personal bests seven times this year and is striving
for even faster times in the future.
' I’m pretty happy with the way things have
gone,” Hayes says "But I also want to keep im
proving.” Improvement is something for which
Hayes has seemingly always looked for. As a senior
in high school, she was a good runner, but her times
were nowhere close to what they are now.
"What she’s done already is because she’s
mature and has handled the increases in training
very well," says women’s track coach Tom Hein
onen
Heinonen’s main concern with all his incoming
freshman is for them to get a year of experience, and
“if we get any improvement at all, that's terrific —
we ll go from there ”
But Heinonen did not expect that by this time of
the year, Hayes would have run the fastest collegiate
time in the 3,000-meters this year.
With a 9:07 94 against Washington State, Hayes
established a personal best, erased the school
record by more than 14 seconds and showed the
nation that she is a contender for the NCAA Cham
pionships
"I was thinking I just wanted to get it over with,”
says Kathy of her record performance. “I didn’t look
back — I just tried to stay out in front. I heard the
announcer say I was on record-pace during the last
lap All the pressure was in my mind.”
As she crossed the finish line, she really did not
know what she had accomplished. "I was happy, but
it really didn’t sink in," she says.
Continued on Page 8
Oregon drops pair to Beavers
Oregon's women's softball team did a lot of
things right at the plate Wednesday, but unfor
tunately most of them came at the wrong time, as the
Oregon State Beavers left Eugene with a double
header sweep
Oregon pounded out 17 hits in the two games
but could only get runners home four times. Oregon
paid the price, dropping 4-2 and 5-2 decisions and
falling to 5-4-1 on the season
In the opener, ex-Duck Tami Cayton delivered
the knockout punch with a pair of triples, driving in a
pair of runs to turn a 2-2 tie into a Beaver win
Cayton's counterpart at third base for Oregon,
Katie Hickey managed a pair of hits, but like her
teammates, was unable to come through with Ducks
on base She did, however, come up with a couple of
key plays on line drives at the corner in game two to
squelch Beaver threats.
Senior center fielder June Liu, who entered the
afternoon with just three hits on the year, strung five
in a row together en route to a 5-for-6 day that saw
her reach base seven times. But she only scored
once — typifying the Ducks' day — accounting for
the Ducks final run of the nightcap before they left
the bases loaded in the third inning.
The two third-inning runs in the second game
knotted the score at two. But, as in the first game, the
Beavers took it from there This time it was pesky
Beaver shortstop Jo Ann Hiraoka who did most of
the damage. In the fifth inning she doubled and
scored to put OSU on top 3-2, and then took
advantage of some sloppy Duck defense in the top of
the seventh to nail the coffin shut with the Beavers’
fifth run.
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