Oregon daily emerald., May 23, 1983, Page 7, Image 7

Sports
Beck leads Ducks to NorPac title
By Paul Danzer
Of ttw Emerald
With ironhorse Lexie Miller
Beck leading the way, the
Oregon women’s track team
cruised to the team title at the
first-ever NorPac Conference
track and field championships
Saturday at Hayward Field.
Beck, competing in her last
meet as a Duck at Hayward
Field, ran the fastest
400-meter hurdle time of her
life, led Oregon to a sweep in
the 100-hurdles with a PR, and
contributed to the Ducks’ win
in the mile relay and second
place finish in the 400-meter
relay.
“I don't know how we’re go
ing to replace her,” said
Oregon coach Tom Heinonen
of Beck after his squad had
ammassed 215 points to more
than double the 105 points of
second-place Washington.
“She went out the way she
wanted to,” added Heinonen,
who was named the con
ference's Coach of the Year.
“She’s been our stopper for
four years.”
And there was no stopping
Beck, Saturday.
After running in the
400-meter relay, Beck sailed to
the first of two school hurdle
records, winning the 100 in a
time of 13.56 wind-aided. Forty
minutes later she ignored the
typical Hayward wind, and
breezed to a record 57.6
400-hurdle win.
As if that wasn’t enough,
she ran her quarter of the mile
relay in 55.7 as Oregon put the
icing on the victory cake in the
final event of the meet.
“With the wind I was happy I
ran that fast," Beck said of the
400. “I’m real happy with it. i
know I can run faster if it isn’t
windy.”
What made the day
especially pleasing to Beck
was the fact that fellow
hurdler Lisa Nicholson earned
the right to join her in Houston
in two weeks for the NCAA
championships.
Following in Beck’s
footsteps, Nicholson raced to
a 13.88 second-place finish in
the 100 which qualified her for
nationals, while Kay Garnett
also garnered a PR in finishing
third with a time of 13.95.
Nicholson came back with her
best-ever 400 (58.7) to easily
beat the NCAA qualifying
standard of 1:00.
“I just wanted to run fast
enough to qualify," said a
smiling Nicholson, who has
been working hard on qualify
ing in the 400. “I wanted to
stay with her (Beck), and when
she passed me (in the
backstretch) i knew I had to
run faster. Having Lexie there
to push me really helped.”
While the hurdlers were
making a lot of the noise,
Oregon also had winners in
seven other events, grabbing
first prize in nine of the 18
events.
Rosa Gutierrez got the ball
rolling for the Ducks on Friday
by running a strong 10,000
meters under the heat of the
mid-afternoon sun. Only three
of the five athletes who
started the race were around
at the end, and Gutierrez won
easily in her first-ever attempt
at a 10,000 in a time of 34.45.
Kathy Hayes, who didn't run
Saturday’s 5,000 because her
foot “felt funny" and
Heinonen didn’t want to risk
an injury, led a quartet of
Ducks across the finish line in
Friday’s 3,000. Lisa Martin was
second, Kim Roth third, and
Allison Snow fourth.
Quenna Beasley also got on
the scoreboard for the Ducks
Friday by winning the shot
put, and then got the sweep
she expected by tossing the
discus 173-3 on Saturday.
Oregon continued to
dominate the distance events
on Saturday. Martin and Snow
finished 1-2 in the 5,000 with
Hayes on the sidelines, Ranza
Clark and Carla Johnson did
the same in the 800 meters,
and Claudette Groenendaal
and Kim Roth finished 2-3
behind Louise Romo of Cal in
the 1,500.
Groenendaal and Roth both
had PRs in the event, and
Groenendaal nearly caught
Romo on the home stretch,
but finished two-tenths of a
second behind her in 2:18.4.
“I thought it would be a fast
race,” said Groenendaal, “but
I didn’t realize just how fast. I
wanted to stay within striking
distance of the leader.
“It looked like she (Romo)
was cruising (taking it easy) in
and I hoped I could catch her
by surprise,” Groenendaal
Photo by Bob Baker
With personal-best efforts in the 100 and 400-meter hurdles,
senior Lexie Miller Beck led the way as the Oregon women cruis
ed to the first-ever NorPac track and field crown Saturday at
Hayward Field.
said of her kick down the
stretch.
As expected, Lauri Tennant
eclipsed Jeanne Borchardt’s
school record in the hep
tathlon by earning 4948 points
and raising her previous best
by 300 points. She capped it
off by cutting seven seconds
from her best time in the 800
meters, finishing second in
the final heptathlon event with
a time of 2:21.96.
One of the few disappoint
ments for Oregon came in the
javelin, where the Ducks had
to settle for second through
fourth behind Deanna Carr of
Washington’s throw of 180-8.
Roz Rouse, competing two
weeks in a row for the first
time this year, managed a toss
of 160-5 to grab second, while
teammates Julie Vobora and
Karen Martin placed third and
fourth.
Pain in her back kept Rouse
from throwing during the
week, but Rouse said she felt
fine Saturday. “I wanted to win
but I guess I wasn’t ready to,”
Rouse said. It was the first
meet this spring in which
Rouse has not produced a PR.
“That’s a bit hard to take,”
she said.
The other five NorPac track
teams may have found this
weekend hard to take. Behind
Oregon and Washington were
California (90 points), Oregon
State (56), Fresno State (42)
and Washington State (28).
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