Oregon women have too much for FSU
By Robert Collias
Of lb« Kmorald
The Oregon women’s track
team opened Us 1985 dual meet
season in impressive style
Saturday as the Ducks swamped
the Fresno State University
Bulldogs, 95-41 in the rain at
Hayward Field.
Oregon took control of the
meet early as the Ducks won
four of the first five events to
build a commanding 32-8 lead
and shoot down any upset the
Bulldogs might have harbored.
The temperature hovered
around 50 degrees most of the
afternoon, and the visitors from
California seemed to be a little
bothered by the wet and rainy
Oregon conditions.
The meet was really never a
contest as Oregon coach Tom
Heinonen was able to hold out
his four national champions
and still put FSU away with
ease. Leann Warren (800- and
1,500-meters) and Claudette
Groenendaal (1,500) rested,
while Kathy Hayes
(lO.OOO-meters) ran in a
prestigious cross country meet
in Italy. Sally Harmon (javelin)
was available, but she won't be
eligible until next week when
spring term classes start.
“We really don’t mind com
peting in the rain,” Heinonen
said. 'Of course the marks can’t
be that good on a day like this,
but we competed real well."
FSU coach Tom Pagani
wasn’t displeased with his
teams performance despite the
lopsided score.
"I don’t think we did that
badly, but I did think we would
be better as a team,” Pagani
said. "Oregon has such a great
tradition and their athletes live
up to the billing.”
The Ducks’ marks were good
enough to overwhelm the
Bulldogs in the team score as
some individual performances
stood out for Oregon.
Tracy Raade, a senior from
Seattle, swept the 100- and
200-meter races against some
highly-touted sprinters from
FSU. Raade’s winning times of
12.54 and 25.22 were not world
class by any means, but they
were impressive when con
sidering that the runners were
running into a strong head wind
all day long. Most of the
Bulldogs were clad in long
sleeved shirts and tights under
their shorts, but Raade and her
teammates stayed with the
traditional green and yellow
shorts and singlets and maybe a
few goose bumps.
"I think the rain worked to
our advantage," Raade said. "I
Photo by Jim Marks
Oregon's Julie Hilsenteger passes the baton to teammate Tracy
Raade in the 400-meter relay as the Ducks won the relay and the
meet against the Fresno State University Bulldogs Saturday
afternoon at Hayward Field.
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tresno State University Bulldogs. Goodrich finished third in the long jump, but came back later
to win the triple iump.
loved it when the Fresno run
ners were complaining about
the weather at the start."
Raade was followed to the
finish line by teammate Cam
Talton in both races as the
Ducks broke the Bulldogs at
their strength, the sprints.
Janell Thorsland opened the
scoring for the Ducks with a
wind-aided 19-1 long jump
win. Teammate Julie Goodrich
. finished third at 18-2 and later
.added a win in the triple jump,
by hitting an effort of 37-5.
Goodrich finished a busy day by
running the third leg on the
Ducks' victorious mile-relay
team.
"We were ready to compete
today," Goodrich said. "We
needed to compete against so
meone new, and today was
fun.”
Gretchen Nelson turned in
one of the most impressive per
formances of the day in winning
the 3,000-meters. Nelson has
been .sidelined with a stress
fracture, in her leg since
December. Confined to working
out in the swimming pool since
the cross-country season.
Nelson stepped back onto the
track Saturday and won the
3,000 meters in 9i39.85. Birgit
Petersen and Rosa Gutierrez
completed the Oregon sweep in
the event.'
Brenda Bushnell led another
Duck sweep in the 1,500-meters
as she won in 4:26.71.
Bushnell, who is recovering
from a back injury suffered in a
car accident in January, was on
ly one second off her personal
best in the race. Bushnell was
followed by teammates Deanna
Schiedler and Tomsin Valdez.
“It felt real good to run
against someone new,”
Bushnell said. “Sometimes you
can get down in practice com
peting against all the world
class athletes we have around
here.”
In the 400-meter run, Julie
Hilsenteger ran a personal best
of 56.40 to get the victory for the
Ducks. Hilsenteger was primari
ly a 400-meter hurdler last year,
but she seems to have made the
change to the 400 without any
problems.
“I had some trouble last year,
but today results are really en
couraging,” Hilsenteger said.
Melissa Bauer won the
400-meter hurdles in 1:03.61 as
the Ducks won 11 of 16 events
in the meet.
In the field, Oregon con
tinued its domination as Quen
na Beasley won the shot put at
52-2 and finished third in the
discus at 152-7. Cora Aguilar
also doubled in the shot and
discus for the Ducks as she
finished third in the shot and
second in the discus.
“We competed really well,
but the weather held us down a
bit today,” Heinonen said.
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