Sports
Women strong second in Pac-10
Wilson and
Wessell lead
By Ashley Conklin
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(In* days nf nlil fur I hit women's
ti.ii k t> im .ii lln' t'.u itu in
( onfi tiMH c i h.irnpionslups Sat
urdav .uni Sunil.i\
1 In' Dm k got indiviilu.il
wins (rum Liz Wilson in the
point meters mil Stephanie
W i ssell 111 till’ in 000 motors mi
S.Otiril.iv ii nil list'd tli.it ills
tani o strength lu finish se< oml
in tin mi i t In'll mil I ( ! A I In'
Hntins won with 1 1 • > points
w hi In l iregun hail lot points
Thi- two distant i‘ w ins a J t
porformani e from \\ ilson anil
Hi -ssell in tin- "> 000 mi'li-rs .mil
a win from I'.uila Horn in the
javt'lin sot Oregon up (or more
than iuii I) Tom llvmunun e\
I ii i toil holoro tho mi l t
rhoio s nothing mini' w o
i mi hi ha vo ilono ho said
Wo inado it so niui h closer
than I over thought wo would
Wo si mod mure points than
last \e.n anil wo had 100 last
ye,u without Arizona State in
the moot
Wilson started tin onslaught
Sattird.n when she won the
i IHItl motors m ‘I ,'ti in her
first o\ ia I’.a lotrui k title
! m a happy > amper that I
got it ilono. Wilson said I
wanted to got down and say
thank \mi thank \1 >i. !! on
you I in real pleased w ith tin
soil ami I loll sluing the w hole
wav
Tho tai o was expected to ho a
I'holn h\ Mdrim I ht»'l
S[inntrr Kasir Willi.ims i ,imr l>.n k Irani mid-*t'.ison injun ta
t.ikr Ihirtl id.n «* linishrs in Ihr 1(H) .mil 2IH) nwlrr r.u rs in this
11 rrkrinl \ I’.n -II) iilfft III Sr.itllr
buttle bet wee n U iIson iiml
U ushiugton Stale's lennilet
Robertson. lii.it veai s winner
but W ilson broke from the p;n k
with about lorn laps In (40 and
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never left the mill nine i n
doubt
"With these tat tit ,ii jat es i
knew every!io(i\ always messes
these up Wilson said ' W e
11.11i lour laps to go and nobody
was doing anything. I thought I
kept them around enough and I
said I've got to go
Wessell later gritted it out in
the 10.000. running alone the
whole rar e and winning easily
in l-l A2 in her first ever
IlUIOO-ruete r rai e
Although Wessell s time was
short ol the \( A \ automatic
standard ol H IK.00. it was the
fifth fastest time in st hool Ins
torv and the sixth best mark in
1 ’at 10 bistort
I've ne\ er run this rat e he
tore and so 1 kind ol rai ed in a
different sort ol wa\ " Wessell
said "I d figured I would gel
through the halfway point,
a,000 meters and go from
there
"being mostly a 1.500 1.000
runner I realh didn't think
about nun lug up (to longer dis
tarn es) but it does fee! more
natural she said "It s so
mtu h easier than a 1,500 w here
voti re just hammering the en
tire way
Teammate |ulia Saul w as also
running her first-ever 10.000
and finished third in 15 ~<i
While the distant e ares ton
tinued to grab attention Paula
Hem filially made tire break
through stre w.rs waiting tor in
the jatt-1 in
Hem took the early lead m
the javelin with a season-best
!7g-5 in the set trnil round and
then t ame bar k with a toss of
178-1 on her tilth throw
For the junior from tiny
Dawdle I ligll St hool ill hast
ern (hegon il was the hist lime
stie set .i personal rei ord in t ol
lege after throw mu 1 7A- I 1 as a
high si hool senior l ire new I’K
tor Berry also broke the \( \A
Turn tu WOMEN. Pag.