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Sports. Men Continued from Page 12 past successes, switched into high gear for the post season and pulled off some inspired performances on the first day of competition to give the Bruins a comfortable 67-51 lead before the sprinters even set foot on the track. HC:i-A hammer thrower Da vid Wilson, who would later place in the shot put and discus as well, began the meet by heaving the iron 22-4-H. edging out the favorite. Washington State's John Billingsley, tor the title. From there, the Bruins took three of the top four spots in the shot put. and placed two long jumpers on the tail of the Ducks' defending conference champion 1-atin Berry to give them a sizeable lead In addi tion. the Bruins had athletes place no worse than third in both the pole vault and javelin "We matched our efforts in the events we expected to do well.” UCLA men's head coach Bob Larsen told the Associated Press following the meet "We again broke through in a few more events, particularly (the) 100." The Ducks, who were riding a surge of momentum coming into the meet after a highly suc cessful Twilight Invitational May 13 in which three Webfoots qualified for the NCAA meet, received many surprises during the meet, but few were as perplexing as the ineffectiveness of the Duck ath letes. A few Duck performers found themselves on the other side of the coin, performing well in the face of adverse conditions and intense competition. Andy Young defeated I‘IH7 Pac-10 champion Mike Harris of California, who had defeated Young in their April 22 meet mg at Hayward Field, to pit k up 10 points for the Ducks Ifoth Young and Harris cleared 7-1' 4 with Young winning on fewer misses Harris, however, would later make amends for the loss taitin Berry successfully de fended his I’,a to long jump crown with a leap of 20 4'< but failed to retain his triple jump title, which he relinquished to Harris Harris’ winning mark of 54-0 allowed him to avenge an earlier loss to lterr\ who. de spite the loss, monied a f’K leap of 54-1(1'i to finish set ond. Deealhnlcte Pedro daSilva made an impressive showing in the decathaion. held the Mon day and Tuesday before the in dividual Pat 211 competition began, by finishing second with 7.447 points behind An zona’s Derek Huff with 7.K3M DaSilva’s finish gave the Dm ks two full days to enjoy an early lead over CC1.A Indore the Bru ins' rampage to the team title Art Skipper, though his first toss of thi‘ day (222-8) was far short of his season liest. fin ished second in the javelin to give the Ducks much needed points there Frit Finch (213-5) and Scott McGee (213-2) fin ished third and fourth, respn lively, in the hammer to keep the Bruins within reaching dis tance. However, the 400-meter relay team, which had hoped to qual ify for the NCAA meet, was dis qualified and will have to wait for the bast Chance Meet, to be held Thursday at I lay ward Field. Klaus Weigeldt t ame up short in his attempt to qualify for the NCAA meet in the 400. finishing fourth in 4t> ‘to. seven tenths of <i second away from Ins goal Davon Russell was an other sprinter who had hoped to fare well, hut failed to earn a trip to the finals Brighter performances were ret urn'd from Spent er Wil hams, who. after tailing to store points in the long jump, finished third in the triple lump behind Hern with a sea son-best leap of Yt _"t. qualifs mg him tor the \l A A meet lose deSou/.a. despite a sixth plait- finish in the shot put. .ilso met the \( \A ipialitvitig standard (50-7) with a ViU't toss, and liiter placed tilth in the tlist us with a throw ot 185-7. Brian Wright added .1 second pl.it e finish in the 400 hurdles with a 51 00 t lot king, and later ran a leg on the mile relay team, which finished second to I'CI.A in :i I.’ 02. Alan Foster (5:50.08) and Colin Dalton (3:51 10) l i nished 2-3 in the 1.500. and Danny l.opez tame through in the 5.000 steeple t base, finishing set ond in a l‘K 3:50.75 Women Continued from Pd^e 12 High jumper Laurel Roberts scaled 5-8D to tie for third in in her first conference meet. Distance runner Liz Wilson added key points in the :t.(K)() meters and 5,000 meters, de spite sub-par times for her. Wilson was second in the 5,000 in 10:87.80 after placing third in the 8.000 with a 0:80.01 clocking. Stephanie Wessell added a personal record in the 5.000. finishing third in 10:88.00 as she continues her quest lor the national qualifying standard ol 10:27.24. Oregon received a big scare in the javelin when defending NCAA champ |ill Smith stretched a ligament in her throwing elbow and was un able to finish Saturday's com petition. The extent ol her in jury was unknown at press time. lirooke Allen appears to be returning to form with a throw of 104-1 in the javelin (good lor fifth) as does l’aula Berry who was sixth with a toss ol 108-10. her first throw over 100 feet since the Oregon Preview The Ducks also received some huge points out ol tilth year senior Deon Saraceno Saraceno was added to Ore gon's 24-women roster just be fore the meet, and was second in the 10,000 meters in .85:57.08. a PR In the 800 meters. Carol Hoi men was fifth in the 2:12.82 at ter running a season's best 2:10.08 in the preliminaries However. I'rancie Raure. who was second in the 800 last year, failed to make the finals this time. Lise Johansen was also fourth in the 1,500 in 4:20 18 <is the Ducks failed to claim a confer once distance champion, one of the biggest rarities in school history. Suzv Setterholm and Karen Church went 4-5 in the 4(H) meters with readings ol 55.42 and 55.85 respectively Setterholm ran a season's best 54.81 in the preliminaries as did Church with a time of 55 30. The 1,000-meter relay team ol Church. Setterholm Wil liams and Stefanie Hunter clocked 5:42.73 for fourth Meanwhile the 400-rela\ team of Church. Williams, 1-auric Williams and Vicky Cnlhcrt was a disappointing filth in 40.34 after having the top con ference mark coming in. hainala Kohlmeier added a sixth place tinish in the lot) hurdles (14 48) to her sixth place heptathlon finish on Tuesday janeen Vit kers ol l'( I A turned in an impressive time ol 55.89 to shatter the old meet re i ord of 57.29 m the 400 hur dles Vickers also won the lot) hurdles in 13.00 Carla Garrett of Arizona turned in two other impressive performam cs. winning the shot with a toss ol 53 4C and the discus with a toss of 198-4. a new meet and confererue re cord Other double winners were CCl.A's Tonya Sedwick m the long jump and heptathlon, and Washington St.ite freshman Jennifer Kobert son who won the 1.000 and 5.1)00 Did you take a crash course in neck pain? 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