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Not too bad, considering
Wednesday's race was just her
second attempt at 10,000
meters. Not too bad, consider
ing the 10,000 was an event
Hayes never dreamed of runn
ing before the season began.
Not too bad, considering the
stress fracture had Hayes ques
tioning whether she could run
at all.
“One or two weeks ago, I had
hardly any speed at all during
my workouts," said Hayes, who
was expected to run in the 5,000
meters, not the 10,000. “So I
decided to run the 10,000."
That meant drifting from the
5,000, where Hayes was second
a year ago at NCAAs. But the
longer distance suited Hayes
well. Extremely well.
"I think this will be my race in
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ly if it ever gets into the
Olympics."
Other Oregon women had
fine performances Wednesday,
as Claudette Croenendaal, Ran
za Clark and Kim Roth all
qualified for Friday's final in the
1,500 meters.
But the story of the day was
Hayes. She was content to sit in
the middle of a pack for much
of the 24-lap race before making
her move. The beginning group
of 21 runners soon broke into a
lead group, with Hayes running
comfortably in sixth place.
She cruised through the 5,000
in 16:36.8, then broke free of
Wisconsin's Kathleen Ishmael
with a lap and one-half to go.
Hayes finished in style — runn
ing her last mile in 4:56.7 and
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she left Ishmael and Carey May
of Brigham Young University in
her wake.
Now Hayes will probably be a
spectator at the 5,000. She
shook her head no when asked
if she would double back for
more Oregon points.
“Probably not,” she said of
the 5,000. "I really want to stay
fresh for the Trials."
Senior Eryn Forbes, also in the
10,000, ran strongly for almost
half of the race before settling
for a non-scoring 13th place in
33:52.7.
Croenendaal, Clark and Roth
all looked smooth in qualifying
for the 1,500 final. Croenendaal
won the first heat with a clock
ing of 4:18.81, while Clark tied
for second in the next heat with
a 4:19.02. Roth qualified seventh
in that same heat in 4:22.11.
Groenendaal, who decided to
run an NCAA 800-1,500 double
less than a week ago, took the
lead from the start and never
relinquished it.
"I was overly concerned this
year because the last two years I
was the last person to qualify for
the finals in the 1,500," said
Croenendaal, who will run an
800 heat this evening. "I didn't
want to wait this year while they
called the times."
Clark led for much of her race
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before falling back, while Roth
qualified for the final by less
than a second.
In the 3,000 meters, Oregon
had three non-qualifying
finishers — Birgit Petersen,
Deanna Schiedler and Brenda
Bushneil. It was the first NCAA
competition for all three.
With Hayes' first-place finish,
unheralded Oregon moved into
a tie for the team lead with
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
with 15 points apiece.
"15 points? "We're in the lead
(actually tied with UNLV)," jok
ed Heinonen. "We'll be in the
lead for half of this meet."
Unfortunately, the Ducks are
not expected to be near the top
of the leader board for very
long. The meet is shaping up as
a dual between Tennessee and
Florida State.
Today's event schedule for
the women includes the 800
meters, which features
Croenendaal and Clark.
Wednesday went just about as
expected for the Oregon men —
except for sophomore Ken Flax,
who fouled twice in the hammer
before slipping into Friday's
finals on his last throw.
Flax's near disaster in the
hammer was the only dark
cloud on an otherwise sunny
day for the Ducks, who moved
four of five competitors entered
in Wednesday's qualifying races
into their respective finals.
The only Duck who didn't
move into the next round was
Don Ward, who finished a non
qualifying 11th in his 400-meter
hurdle heat in 51.01. But Ward's
finish will be worth two points
when the 400-meter hurdle final
is run Friday, since the four
fastest non-qualifiers scored
points Wednesday.
More good news came the
Ducks' way when pre-meet
favorite loaquim Cruz easily
won his 800 meter heat in the
day's fastest time — 1:46.34 —
and then sophomores Matt
McGuirk and Harold Kuphaldt
both finished fourth in their
steeplechase heats to qualify for
Friday night's final. McGuirk
clocked 8:41.68 and Kuphaldt
ran 8:40.48 to make it into the
14-man final.
The fact that he almost missed
the finals — after being given a
good shot at finishing in the top
six before the meet began — left
Flax a bit shaken.
"Is my hair gray?" deadpann
ed Flax after his final throw of
207-3 settled down into fair
territory.
"My keys weren't there to
day," said Flax, referring to his
hammer-throwing technique.
"It was just a matter of finding
them, which I did on the last
throw."
Flax, who won the Pacific 10
Conference meet with a heave
of 229-9, said he moved over in
the ring a little for his last throw
and thus shifted his throwing
position enough to make sure
he wouldn't foul.
"I'll take that last throw,
although it's not as good a posi
tion as I wanted," Flax said.
"He wasn't going flat out to
day," said Oregon weights
coach Stewart Togher. "There
was still more there — you could
see that on his fouls (which
were further than his legal
throw.)"
While Flax seemed on the
edge of not making the final —
until his last throw — Kuphaldt
and McCuirk looked solid
throughout each of their respec
tive steeplechase heats.
Neither was given much of a
chance before the season began
to even make the NCAA cham
pionships. But McCuirk, based
on a strong 8:36.63 at the
Oregon Pepsi Relay in early
May, was picked by Track and
Field News last week to finish
11th in Friday's final.
Kuphaldt, however, almost
didn't make the NCAA meet. He
couldn't run a qualifying mark
during Oregon's regular dual
and relay meet season, so last
week he entered the Oregon
State Twilight Meet's
steeplechase and clocked an
8:40.94, good enough to qualify.
Wednesday, he ran a lifetime
best, clocking 8:40.48.
The battle for the team title
between pre-meet favorite
Washington State and Oregon
tightened up a bit when the
Cougars' Brent Harken failed to
make the qualifying height in
the high jump for Friday's final.
Harken had been expected to
finish in the top two. Another
Cougar expected to score big
points, Richard Tuwei, struggled
in his steeplechase heat and
barely managed to qualify in
8:43.23.
The Cougars' title hopes did
receive a boost Tuesday when
treshman Carlos Gambetta
finished seventh in the
decathlon. That gave WSU six
points in an event they hadn't
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