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Ducks dethrone UCLA as Pac-10 track champs
By Jake Berg
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Oregon is second best no
longer
After three straight years of
finishing second to I ( I.A at
the Pacifit 10 Conference
Championships, the Dm ks
wrested the title from the per
ennial champion Bruins win
ning t he meet with ltd ’>
points to l td.A s lld’j tins
weekend at Tempe. Ari/
We competed hard all day
Saturday and Sunday.' Oregon
(loach Torn flemonen said
"We had our ups and downs,
hut the team just flung in
there
I he I hit ks distant e runners
were responsible for unit h of
the distant e between Oregon
anti the rest of the Pat 10 Four
Oregon distant e runners ran
two events over the weekend as
Heinonen believed those points
( mild in' tlic key to <i • liampi
unship
' riii' tough pari was on
those who doubled, lleinunrn
said No one got fast limes,
imt they sc rumbled fur every
point
Stephanie Wessell didn't let
a sore knee or the hostile warm
temperatures stand in tile wav
of gaming .1 Pur 10 title in both
tile a 000 and 10.000 meter
runs Uessell s knee forced her
to drop out of the 5.(100 at tile
Oregon Twilight the weekend
in'fore
"Stephanie didn't suv a word
about her knee. Iteinonun
said
The Oregon senior who won
tiie 10.000 at last year s cham
pionships ran a winning
10.000 tone ot 14 57 27 Satur
day. breaking the 10 year-old
Sun Angel Stadium record by
more than nine sec nods
She c utile hue k Sundav .end
Camara Jones
r.in In .1 first plat c t iimi of
It) 4t> 88 m lilt- 5,000, where
she look third ill hist season's
i luiiiipionships
lull,i Saul balked Wessell up
in the 10.000 running to a
third plate finish in it>.20 tH
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Behind Wessell in the 5.0(10
were teammates I.in \ Nusrala.
i n a third pi a i e 11 in e o f
ll> 58 t>t>. and sixth plate \i
c ole Woodward in 17 75 70
Nusrnla added more points to
the Ihit ks total by running the
1.000 and placing second m a
time of (l (0 l>0 i.isa harnopp
took fifth in the rate, running
ill <1 50 07
The 1.500 also belonged to
the Duck runners as ( arid Hoi
men plat ed set ond in 4 7t> 00,
and harnopp took sixth with a
•4 (5 75 time
Krika Klein surged from be
hind to snare second-place in
the 800 meter run Klein ran in
a person a I record 11 me o f
7 07 4o the eighth fastest time
in s< hool history and a prim
sional NCAA qualifier
Oregon's next biggest swing
m the meet was an old fash
ioned one two punt h from jav
elin throwers Paula Bern and
Kim Hyatt Berry repeated as
i (inference champion w ith a
meet record throw of 10,( 8.
and Hyatt improved on last
year's third plai e finish bv fin
ishing sei ond oil a I’K toss of
178 1
Paula had a fabu 1 ous
throw Ileinonen said
Defending NCAA champion
Ashley Selman of CSC was
tfiird lielimd the two Ducks,
getting off a 17(8 toss
Heinonen added that the
Dui ks would have gotten more
points in the javelin throw Sat
tirday had it not been for yyliat
he said xsas a "bogus call" by
the judges on a throw by Ore
gon s Kelly Kempf
Heinonen said tfie judges'
misunderstanding of a rule dii
tating the motion of a thrower
after the throw caused Kempt's
throw of approximately 155
feet to be disqualified
Julie Bei k turned in two sur
prising performam es over the
weekend ill the shot put and
disi us competitions
I he (Iregon freshman put the
shot a I’K and N( AA proy isimi
al mark 4’t 1 '* lor fifth-place at
the Bin 10s and fourth ties! in
school history. and during the
discus. Bock again got a PR.
throwing 163-8 for fifth-place
and seventh best on the
school's list
I' ( I. A freshman Dawn
Humble took first in the shot
put with a Pac-10 record and
meet rei ord 50-7'. i put
Another surprise came from
the 4x400 relay team of Camara
(ones, Klein. Kim Hutson and
Rosie Williams which got first
in a 3 39 15 time, an NCAA
provisional qualifying time
Heinonen said (ones ran a sw ift
51 I opening leg on the relay in
leading the Ducks to the win
"We won the damn thing go
ing away." lleinonen said
Jones ran impressively by
herself .is well in the 400-meter
run < rinsing to the second last
est time in school history and
an NCAA provisional qualify
ing time Jones' PR of 53.69 in
the 400 gave her second behind
defending conference champi
on Mail el Malone of Arizona
State, who broke the stadium
record with her 53 03 time
Williams, Oregon's school
record holder in the 100 and
300. placed third in both
events The Dili k senior ran the
100 in 11 HO and the 300 in
34 19
Malone also pounced on her
300 competitors by running a
stadium record 33 03 in the
race
hollowing a second place in
the heptathlon earlier in the
week Kelly lilair took fourth in
the high jump with a 5-8
ju mp
Laurel Roberts tied lor fifth
in the high pimp at 5-7. and her
PR of 19 IOC in the long jump
got her a sixth plai e conference
tonsil and fifth on the si bool s
all time list
Kim Carlisle also scored for
Oregon, grabbing a fifth-place
in the triple |ump with her
Cl 45 leap
"We said in our team meet
ing that our athletes had to
compete hard for two days and
they did pist that." lleinonen
said
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