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Oregon Hurdles Fresno State, Beavs
By John Healy
Of the Emerald
It was "business as usual" tor
the Oregon men's track team
Saturday at Hayward Field.
That meant a pair of easy dual
meet victories over Oregon
State and Fresno State, two
schools that traditionally have
had problems with the Ducks.
In the process of crushing
Oregon State 108-55, Oregon ex
tended its win streak over the
Beavers to 10 straight years,
while the 92-71 whipping of the
Bulldogs was the Ducks'
seventh consecutive win over
the California school.
"I'm very proud of this team
and its record," said Oregon
coach Bill Dellinger after wat
ching his Ducks improve to 5-1
on the year. "I thought we com
peted well, and I can’t think of
an event where we really fell
down."
The pair of wins probably clin
ched a second consecutive
runner-up spot in the dual-meet
rankings to Washington State,
the defending dual-meet titlist.
The Cougars handed the Ducks
their only loss of the year, a
94-69 mauling in Eugene in late
March.
This was a day where Oregon
pummeled the Bulldogs (33-3)
and the Beavers (25-11) in the
distances. At the same time, the
Ducks were decimated by
Fresno State in the sprints (29-3)
and in the weights by Oregon
State's Ron Schmidt.
There were a few outstanding
marks, too, including senior
Lamar Hurd's NCAA-qualifying
time of 13.81 in the 110-meter
high hurdles and sophomore
Harold Kuphaldt's 8:46.80 in the
steeplechase, which just missed
the NCAA mark but was a lif
time best by more than 12
seconds.
Hurd didn't take up collegiate
hurdling until he was a junior at
Oregon. Instead, he'd concen
trated on the triple jump, where
he established himself as the
best triple jumper in Oregon
history with a record of 51-1116.
But last spring, Dellinger
needed a high hurdler in dual
meets, and he turned to Hurd,
an ex-Washington prep high
hurdles champion. Hurd went
on to finish third in the con
ference, but it has been this spr
ing that he has made a real
name for himself in the hurdles.
"He can definitely run taster,"
said Dellinger. "I think he can
get down to the 13.6 range."
Hurd's time, fastest in the
Pac-10 this year, also broke the
school record set by Phil Bran
som in 1979 for fully automatic
timing.
Hurd professed himself pleas
ed at Saturday's results,
although he says he has a lot of
room for improvement in the
hurdles.
"I hit a couple of hurdles, and
that slowed me down," said
Hurd. "Plus, my hamstring has
been bugging me. I was going
to run the intermediates, but
Bill decided not to enter me
because my leg was sore."
Hurd will concentrate on the
hurdles for the rest of the year,
focusing mainly on the highs
but running the intermediates
to help his strength.
Moving to a new event and
then doing well in it isn't the
sole domain of Hurd. Kuphaldt,
a high-school all-American in
the 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000, was
moved into the steeplechase his
freshman year and performed
solidly, if not spectacularly,
clocking 8:58.99.
But Saturday, the sophomore
from Fair Oaks, Calif., broke
from the pack on the first lap
and kept pushing the pace.
"I just went after getting the
(NCAA) qualifying time today,"
said Kuphaldt. "I knew I would
have to do it myself. But I plann
ed to run hard today no matter
what event I was in."
Kuphaldt, who won the
prestigious prep Golden West
mile as a high school senior, got
kind of lost in his first year in
Eugene among the herds of
distance runners that form the
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