Duck track teams to awake hibernating Bears
By lack Millikin
Emerald Sport* Reporter
As the Oregon men's and
women's track teams prepare
for Saturday's dual meet
against California, a few Ducks
await inevitable confrontations
with some of the Pacific-10
Conference's top athletes.
Meanwhile, the rest are
awaiting the onslaught.
In the past two weeks, the
Duck men have upended Wash
ington (132-31 on April 1) and
swept past the teams from Illi
nois. Washington State and
Colorado at the Pepsi Team In
vitational last week en route to
amassing 230Vj points in the
meet. The women have re
ceived some equally impressive
performances as they tri
umphed over the Huskies 83-53
and totaled 194 points at the
Pepsi Invitational to take the ti
tle.
Not much is expected to
change against the Bears, who
will come into town boasting
some top-notch competitors in
high/triple jumper Mike Harris
(7-3Vj. 53-6V« — both NCAA
qualifying marks), defending
l’ac-10 1.500-meter champion
David Ottoway (3:46.8). hur
dler Kevin McPherson (14 00)
and long jumper Kevin Smith
(25-1'/«). but will lack the
depth to keep the Ducks from
posting (yawn) another lopsid
ed victory.
“I've been saying all year
that our strength lies in our
numbers.” said Oregon head
coach Bill Dellinger, whose
Ducks look to boost their series
record against Cal to 14-2 and
give Dellinger his 30th straight
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"When we get on a roll. It's
much like the tide. The chal
lenge for the coaching staff is to
keep the momentum going "
The Cal women boast a pair
of NCAA qualifiers in high
jumper Beth Vidakovits (6-0)
and long jumper Mona
Simmons (20-8Vi) and will also
bring Kristen O’Hara, who fin
ished third in the NCAA 10.000
last spring, to battle the Ducks’
Stephanie Wessell and Lisa
Karnopp in the .1.000.
Brooke Allen, one of three
Duck javelin throwers to qual
ify for NCAA's last year, will
make her first appearance in an
Oregon dual meet as she will
team with Paula Berry in an at
tempt to boost the number of
Webfoot NCAA qualifiers,
which currently stands at two
(Liz Wilson in the 3,000 and
fellow javelin tosser Jill Smith,
who will travel to Walnut. Cal
if., for the Mt. SAC Relays on
Sunday).
Freshman high jumper lau
rel Roberts, having already
qualified for the l’ac-10 meet,
views the meeting with
Vidakovits as a chance to better
her season best of 5-9.
"Competition is something
that always pushes me." last
year's Oregon prep high jump
champion said. "1 thought the
competition last week would
have helped me, but I haven't
been real consistent lately."
Consistency hasn’t been a
problem for Duck long/triple
jumper I.atin Berry, who has
routinely disposed of all com
ers thus far in both the horizon
tal jumps Berry and Spencer
Williams, who has been Berry's
closest competitor so far this
season with jumps of 25-3 Va
and 51-11«. will finally meet a
more formidable opposition in
Harris, an NCAA qualifier in
both the triple and high jumps.
"I hope (Harris) PRs. I hope
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Oregon's Devon Russell will look to qualify for the NCAA's in
the sprints this weekend at Hayward Field.
Duck hammer thrower ^cott
McGee obscure but talented
By Ashley Conklin
Emerald Sports Reporter
Hammer thrower Scott
McGee is used to obscurity and
while it might not bother him
personally he doesn't down
play the effects it has on the
event.
"It really doesn't bother me
personally.” McGee said. "I've
never been one to be in some
thing for the glory of it. 1 do
think it's wrong for the sport. 1
think one of the biggest prob
lems in track is that instead of
promoting the whole sphere of
track they just promote certain
events. We re slowly getting a
better following for the sport. I
hope we can continue to get
more talented athletes into
hammer throwing."
Scott McGee
McGee, a sophomore, has
certainly done his part in mak
ing the hammer more well
known this season.
After qualifying for the
NCAA Championships last
spring at the end of the season.
McGee became Oregon's first
NCAA qualifier this season
with a throw of 203-1 at the Or
egon Preview. Two weeks later
McGee upped his personal re
cord (PR) of 203-3 to 203-7 in a
dual meet against Washington.
In last week's Pepsi Team In
vitational, McGee bettered his
PR on four of six throws before
winding up the competition
with a PR of 211-8. For McGee,
last Saturday's competition
came after a week of “bad prac
tices.” something not surpris
ing when given the highly
technical nature of the ham
mer.
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