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It never gets easy for Ducks: Strong Salukis take on men By Doug Levy Of the Emerald After facing UCLA, Washington State and Cal the past three weeks, the Oregon men’s track team would love to face a patsy. Instead, Oregon (4-1) takes on a strong Southern Illinois team (2-1) Saturday at Hayward Field. The Salukis were ranked eighth in the nation among dual meet teams a year ago, and they’ve also won eight consecutive Missouri Valley Conference track titles. The Ducks, meanwhile, came up with a big effort last week to defeat Cal 87-67, and assistant coach John Gillespie says a let down is possible. Southern Illinois is led by high jumper Stephen Wray, who has a best of 7-7, and sprinter Mike Franks (10.59;20.98). In addi tion SIU is strong in the relays, the hurdles and the jumps, all vulnerable areas for Oregon. But the Ducks will have a distinct ad vantage in the throwing events and in the distances from 800 meters on up. “If we compete like we did against UCLA and Cal, the meet will go just fine,” says Gillespie, “but if we don’t, we could be in trouble." SIU boasts Tom Ross (8:41.4) in the steeplechase against Oregon’s rapidly im proving freshman Garth Morrisette (8.56.26). In the 5,000, Brad Simpson and Harold Kuphaldt take on the Salukis' Mike Keane (14:07.39), and Lamar Hurd faces Terry Taylor (24-5) in the long jump. Oregon will be without Brian Crouser in the javelin, distance runner John Zishka and long jumper Melvin Renfro Saturday. The meet will start at 12:30 p.m. with the hammer throw, with running events beginn ing at 2 p.m. Injuries are not nearly the problem they were for Oregon a week ago, either. Dwight Robertson is probable for Saturday, Parrish Nixon will run in the mile relay, Frode Stor myr will throw the javelin, and Dean Crouser is back, albeit 15 pounds lighter after spen ding half of last week in bed with a fever. “I told him he’ll be faster now,” jokes Gillespie. With the Pac-10's quickly approaching, Oregon is likely to insert senior Greg Erwin into the 5,000 meters, and Stormyr will shoot for an NCAA qualifying 245-4 in the javelin. Oregon has already qualified 28 athletes in 16 events for the Pac-10 cham pionships and eight athletes In seven events for the NCAA's. Don Ward and Joaquim Cruz are the latest NCAA qualifiers. Ward ran a 51.18 in the 400 hurdles against Cal and Cruz blazed to a 1:46.61 800 against the Bears. The NCAA qualifying marks in those events are 51.20 and 1:48.11 respectively. Photo by Bob Baker Keith Washington is happy here after jumping a lifetime best of 6-103A last week, but he'll have his hands full Saturday when he meets the Salukis' Stephen Wray who has jumped 7-7. Oregon out to corral fast Mustangs By Paul Danzer Ot the Emerald Life in the fast lane continues this week for the Oregon women’s track team. The Ducks host the fleet-footed Mustangs of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in their final home dual meet of the season. The meet takes off with the long jump competition beginning at noon Saturday at Hayward field. The Mustangs are the defending NCAA Division II national champions, and are packed with 11 return ing NCAA Division II All-Americans. At last year's NCAA meet, the Mustangs compiled an amazing total of 256 points. That total was one point shy of equaling the combined scores of the second and third place teams. It is easy to see why Oregon coach Tom Heinonen expects an exciting afternoon when the two teams tangle for the first time ever in dual meet competition. “It’s a real close meet,” says Heinonen. ‘‘We’re approaching it as a good, exciting track meet, not as a do or die meet.” If Oregon was running with a full form chart, the Ducks would probably outdistance the Mustangs without much trouble. But injuries have slowed the Ducks all spring, and the situation didn’t get any bet ter this week. Heinonen had hoped that sprinter Grace Bakari would be able to shed the bandages of a severed Achilles tendon in time to compete in the 400 meters against the Mustangs. But Oregon’s 400-meter record-holder is not ready to toe the line, and most likely will have to wait till next season to do so. “It would have be6n a nice boost,” says Heinonen of his hope that Bakari would be back in time for the meet, “But She’s just not ready yet." The Ducks also lost high jumper Shari Collins to the redshirt list this week and the status of Lynda Hughes in the javelin is in doubt for Saturday. Hughes managed a season’s-best throw of 188-1 at last weekend’s Mt. SAC Relays, but the elbow pro blems that have plagued her all spring have flared up again this week. Whether or not Hughes competes, Heinonen sees the javelin as a key event Saturday. The Mustangs have DeneMa Barnes with a season's best of 169-4 and a lifetime best of 174-2. The Ducks have four NCAA qualifiers including Hughes in the event, and all of them have thrown over 160 feet this spring. “We've got to score a bundle of points in the javelin,” says Heinonen. One big event which promises to be a treat is the 100-meter hurdles. Cal Poly has Janet Yarbrough, a returning All-American, and C.C. Chandler with a lifetime best of 13.95 and a season’s best of 14.12 entered in the event. The Ducks counter with Lexie Miller Beck, who was one second off of her school record 13.67 at Mt. SAC last week, and Kay Garnett, who has a best effort of 13.77. Another matchup which will be interesting if it oc curs is a duel between Oregon's Kathy Hayes and Cal Poly’s Amy Harper in either the 5,000 or 1,500. Harper edged Hayes in the 5,000 at the Golden Bear Invita tional earlier this season, and Hayes returned the favor last week in the 1,500 at Mt. SAC. Also entered in the 5,000 will be Lisa Martin, who will run the event for the first time. This will be Mar tin’s only shot to qualify for the NCAA 5,000. She has already qualified in the 3,000 and 10,000. “It’ll be good for us to compete against a team like this," says Heinonen. "The coaches will worry about the team score, the athletes just need to go out and compete as hard as they can." |[ et al. 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