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Oregon Daily Emerald Sports Supplement
Wednesday, May 19,1982
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ASU sprinters
could win it all
By Marti Johnson
Sprinters like it hot.
And no other place has been sizzling more this year than
Tempe. Arizona, where Arizona State has had a year to heat up its
speedsters to bid tor a second consecutive Pacific 10 Conference
Track and Field championship.
ASU's forte is the short distances, and they have no qualms
about where their strengths lie. In fact, if most of the Sun Devils
were to compete at the same time, they could be in and out of
Hayward Field and on their way back to Tempe in less than a
minute "
100 METERS — Arizona State has qualified a half-dozen
athletes in this event, with four in a position to score. Dennis Whitby,
Oregon s sprint coach, analyzes the race as boiling down to a battle
of the Browns
"H should be a race between Ron Brown (ASU; 10.20) and Eric
Brown (the defending champion from UCLA; 10.23w).,r Whitby said,
“it could go to either one ”
Oregon's George Walcott has a ninth-ranked time in the 200
this year with a wind-aided 10.40. But he'll probably be left out of the 1
scoring as only the top sin finishers in each event tally points
200 METERS - Again. Whitby sees this as a fight between both
Browns, giving Eric of UCLA (20.57w) the go-ahead over Ron of
ASU (20 74). Whitby also considers Howard Henley of ASU (20.58)
a top challenger although he hasn't clocked his best time since
mid-March.
The Sun Devils also qualified six sprinters in the 200 with three
solid chances to score, which includes LaMonte King (20 81), 1981
Pac-10 200 meter champion
Walcott qualified for the Ducks in the 200, but has only the
10th-ranked time in the conference
400 METERS — The favorite is Kasheef Hassan (45.40). the
standout from Oregon State by way of Khartoum. Sudan. Whitby
sees Hassan over ASU’s Henley (45.49) in a reversal of 1981 s
Pac-10 400 meter finish
Whitby also thinks the race for third will be hotly contested.
"With (Chris) Whitlock injured (WSU; 45.80), third place will
probably be between (Leon) Tubbs (ASU: 45.99) and (Tony) Banks
(UCLA; 46.08).”
Oregon s Chris Wright is listed as the 12th rated performer in
the Pac-10 tor the 400
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Distance points
to Ducks, WSU
By Jeff Dickerson
The Oregon men’s track team is strong where most teams
aren’t
Oregon coach Bill Dellinger, himself a three-time all-American
distance man for the Ducks from 1954 to 1956, believes his team’s
strength in the distance events is handicapped, however, by the
24-man team limit at the Pacific 10 Conference meet
"Distance runners can’t as easily double and possibly triple in
events like the sprinters can," Dellinger says "The 24-man limit
favors the teams with sprinters. ”
Washington State appears to be the only other school with
enough firepower to challenge Oregon for distance supremacy in
the Pac-10. The Cougars and the Ducks hope to offset their
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800 METERS - Oregon’s David Mack returns to defend his
Pac-10 crown m the 800, still hoping to qualify for the NCAA meet in
Provo, Utah. The Oregon junior has a lifetime best of 1.46.03, but
has only managed to clock a 1:48.2 so far this year
Mack, however, won’t be the only 800 entry threatening to take
the Pac-10 title Washington State’s Sotirios Moutsanas, fourth last
year in the Pac-10 and ninth in the NCAA meet, has the best time in
the conference this year with a 1 48 44 and also has a career best of
1:46.66
Washington s Rob Webster, actually has the best time in the
Conference. Webster leads the pack of entrants with a 1:47,96,
while Arizona State's Pete Quinonez and Mike Schwarz enter the
race with 1:48 times under their belts.
1,500 METERS - Arizona State’s Dan Raby gave the Sun
Devils a big lift last season with an upset triumph in the 1,500 a year
ago. But if he does it again, it will have to be another upset This
year s 1,500 field could be one of the strongest in a while.
Seventeen runners are currently ranked ahead of Raby. and at
the top of the list is Oregon State’s Mark Fricker Fricker and
Oregon’s Jim Hill are definitely the class of this field, but the OSU
star, who has a 3:38.9 time in the 1,500, could be all alone at the
finish line if Dellinger decides to save Hill, who has a 1,500 time of
3:40.42. for the 5,000.
5^*00 METERS - HBI is the Pac-10’s top returning NCAA placer
in distance events on the baste of his seventh-place finish in the
5,000 a year ago