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Oregon set for Twilight Meet,
but Hurd, Hayes have injuries
By Doug Levy
Of the Emerald
With dual meets over and conference cham
pionships a week away, one would think
Oregon's track teams would approach Saturday's
annual Twilight Meet at Hayward Field with
optimism.
The theme of the Twilight Meet, according to
men's coach Bill Dellinger and women's coach
Tom Heinonen, is to qualify some athletes for na
tional competition and have the rest ready to go
for Pac-10s and NorPacs.
Instead, the focus may be on two key com
petitors fighting injuries and time, rather than the
meet itself.
On the men's side, Dellinger must accept the
fact that LaMar Hurd will be unavailable through
the Pac-10 meet. Hurd ran a PR and NCAA
qualifying 13.81 in the 110-meter hurdles two
weeks ago.
Then his problems began. Last Saturday, Hurd
pulled up halfway through his hurdles race at the
Oregon Pepsi Relays. He hasn't been able to run
since.
"It just felt like a real big cramp," says Hurd,
"and I thought it would be all right if I stopped."
It wasn't. Hurd has a pulled hamstring mus
cle, and he admits he'll likely skip the Pac-10 Con
ference Championships May 18-19 in Pullman,
Wash.
"I hope I'll be ready for the NCAA meet," says
Hurd. "I'll take it slow." Dellinger says he won't
run Hurd in Pullman if there are any questions
about his leg.
There are questions for Heinonen, too — con
cerning Kathy Hayes. Hayes had been sidelined
most of this season with a stress fracture, but she
was supposedly recovered, especially after she
ran an NCAA-qualifying 15:48.43 5,000 at the Pepsi
Relays.
But Hayes has had leg problems during prac
tices this week, and Heinonen is worried about
how that affects her status.
"She hasn't been able to run a normal
workout this week," says Heinonen. "She's been
having problems for a couple of weeks now."
Hayes was tentatively scheduled to run the
3,000 Saturday, but Heinonen may ask her to skip
that race in favor of the NorPac Conference Meet
May 18-19 in Fresno, Calif.
Besides those injuries, things look fine for
both Dellinger and Heinonen.
Dellinger will send most of his athletes into
Saturday's meet, with the notable exception of
Joaquim Cruz. Cruz will be in Los Angeles for the
Pepsi Meet, where he will test a loaded
1,500-meter field.
Most of the hype for the Twilight Meet is
centered around the Twilight Mile, and with good
reason. Twenty-one Oregon runnners have dip
ped below four minutes in the featured event, in
cluding Dub Myers, who ran a 3:57.06 a year ago.
Saturday, Myers will try to better his 1983
mark, and he'll have plenty of lemon and green
company. Steeplechaser Matt McGuirk, Mike
Blackmore, Harold Kuphaldt, Rick Bergesen, and
Will Kimball all will attempt to bust the mythical
four-minute barrier. One Duck distance runner
will not — Jim Hill.
"He's running the 1,500 at the Pac-10 meet,
and I'm preparing him for the 5,000 at NCAAs,"
says Dellinger. "I don't want him to run a mile
Saturday, then another mile at the Pac-10 meet.
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A pulled hamstring muscle means no Twilight
Meet — and probably no Pac-10 meet — for
Oregon's LaMar Hurd.
I've got him in the 3,000 Saturday, and that's bet
ter background for his 5,000.”
The Ducks have 13 athletes qualified for 16
NCAA events, so qualifying marks won't be at a
premium Saturday.
On the contrary, Heinonen has several
qualifiers in mind Saturday. Freshman Janell
Thorsland has a best of 19-8%, and Heinonen
wants her to reach the NCAA standard of 20-4;
Lisa Nicholson, with a season best of 1:00.46 (set at
the Pepsi Relays), goes after the NCAA's 59.40.
Shari Collins, who high jumped 5-7'A last
Saturday to boost her recovery from knee
surgery, shoots for an NCAA-qualifying 5-1134;
Kim Roth will try to meet the NCAA's demand of
4:22.75 in the 1,500; and Brenda Bushnell hopes to
squeeze another couple of seconds off her PR
2:09.9 in the 800 to satisfy the NCAA's 2:08
requirement.
"Nicholson needs to put a whole race
together, and I think Kim Roth will run a really fast
1,500," says Heinoen. "She had her foot stepped
on and twisted last week, and she still ran a good
time (4:25.06)."
Roth faces plenty of competition in her bid for
a swift 1,500, including Cathy Twomey of Athletics
West and Mary Rapp of Athletes In Action.
The sprints should be exciting, too, thanks to
the presence of Pan-American 400 hurdles champ
Judi Brown. And keep an eye out for the 400,
where Heinonen will look at Grace Bakari,
Stephanie Morris, Ingunn Holden, Cam Talton,
Lisa Nicholson and Claudette Groenendaal. Two
of those six will join Tracy Raade and Julie
Hilsenteger when Heinonen puts together a Nor
Par mile-relav team
Salazar sounds off on Soviets
EUGENE (AP) — Alberto
Salazar says the failure of the
Soviet Union to participate in
the Los Angeles Olympics will
diminish the importance of win
ning medals in some events.
"I think it would take away
from any medal that one wins
when one knows that some of
the main competition isn't
there," said Salazar, the world
marathon record holder who
lives in Eugene.
Salazar said Tuesday that his
event won't be diminished by
the absence of the Soviets,
because the USSR isn't known
for its marathoners.
"In the marathon, the top
guys will be there," he said.
"I'm going to be satisfied to win
any medal and I'm going to
think I would have won it no
matter who was there."
Other Oregonians with Olym
pic connections had varied reac
tions to the Soviet pullout.
"I think the Soviets wanted to
get even," said former Oregon
discus standout Dean Crouser
of Gresham. He was referring to
the U.S. decision not to com
pete in the Moscow Olympics
four years ago.
Bob Newland of Eugene, who
was team manager for the U.S.
Olympic track team in 1980 and
assistant manager in 1976, said
the Soviet decision “is not sur
prising at all, particularly after
we called the shots in 1980."
"I'm sure this is not the last
country we will lose," said
Newland, referring to other
Eastern Bloc countries.
Bill Dellinger, head track
coach at Oregon and one of the
coaches of the U.S. Olympic
team, said the Games have
become too involved in politics.
"The fact that the Russians
aren't here is part of all that," he
said. "I still think the competi
tion is going to be good at the
Olympics whether or not the
Russians are there."
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