Ducks turn in surprises at NCAAs
By Jake Berg
Emerald Sports Reporter
Oregon athletes turned in
some surprising perform,mi o,
this week at the N'OAA Ir.uk
and Field Championships
Good and had surprises
Stephanie VVessell had the
third-best time of the 10,000
meter field hut the Oregon se
nior was forced to make an ear
ly exit from the ra< e when a
< ollision injured her right knee
Wessell hung in the race after
the collision but walked off the
track 200 meters later
I.in v Nusrala s time in the
5,000 was the second best of
the field, hut she finished onl\
10th despite a strong start in
the rai e
' It wasn't real ( omfortahle
like it has been," the Oregon
junior said "It’s kind of hard
to end it like that
It was hard for javelin throw
or kim Hvatt. too, who had the
third-best javelin throw but
tailed to make the finals on a
subpar series of throws Satur
day marked the first time Hyatt
dill not score in her three vears
at (fregon
"It i ould have been a lot bet
ter we just didn't score what
we thought we could do," Ore
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'1 was a little behind
(Jones)." Guidry said of the
4x100 anchor race "But I
wasn't in any jeopardy "
Yet Guidry was only part of a
great Saturday for Texas nth
letes Kileen Vanisi's final
throw of 57-9 won the shot put
competition and set a meet re
cord, and Sandie Richards' sei
ond-place, 51 00 time m the
400 gained an additional eight
gon ('()<»( h Tom Hi*inoiu*n said
kelly Blair's s i \t h • place
heptathlon finish on Thursday
was a good surprise, giving Or
pgon three points it did not e\
peit HI.nr was the final athlete
to i|ua I if v lor the N L A A
heptathlon
And no surprise at all was
l’aula Item \s national i hanipi
unship m the javelin Bern led
I he nation coming into the
NLAAs and her throw of IHH ■
was good enough to top de
tending national champion
Ashley Selin,in of I S( Berry
finished second to Selnian last
year at the \l \As
I |ust couldn't hit the lug
one today." said Berry, who
threyy trvii e over lull feet dur
1 ng I hursday ' s i|iia111y mg
tlirmys "I wanted to do lug
things here tor the last i olle
giate meet I yyas kind of nor
vous. hut it yvas a good kind of
nervous
Blair and Berry finished as
( tregon's only si orers in the
meet, totaling all of the Dm k->
I I points tor a 1 ith plai e tie
with Providence
"Thank goodness tor Paula
Homonon said "We were dead
in the y\ ater everywhere else
Oregon senior Rosie Uil
Hams ran at Hayward tor the
points for the Longhorns
Nebraska's Ximena Kestrepo
won the 400 in a Hayward re
i old time of 51 01 upsetting
defending national < hampion
Man.el Malone of Arizona
State, who finished only third
Restrepo's points in the 400
and her anchor in the 4\400 re
lay i arried the (,'ornhuskers to a
third-place orerall finish
After three years of NLA A
runner up status t (T.A fin
ished fourth this season The
last time Iridav afternoon in
the 10(1 semifinals, finishing in
a wind aided 1 t aH for sixth
plat e in her heat H illiums
time did not get her a spot in
Saturday s finals
In run t.ister 1 would
have had to eat im Wheaties or
something said Williams the
sc hool rc'c ord holder in the 100
and ..’00 I his year could have
been a lot hettei hut it c mild
have been a lot worse too
Next season could be nun h
better for the Dm ks The Dm ks
do lose Williams Wessell and
Herrv hut tlx alt Nusrala
Hl.iir distance runner Nicole
Woodward high jumper Laurel
Roberts and sprinter Lainara
|ones all gained Nl \ \ expert
enee this season and will return
next v ear
Herrv said she will tec him ai
l\ he a collegian through the
summer, giving her a shot at
the c ollegiate javelin rec ord of
If 1 I a Herrv s personal record
dOd 1 throw is the tilth best
c ollegiate mark of all tune
It took me four v ears to get
a big throw m high sc hool It
took me tour years to get a lug
throw in c ollege Herrv said
W ho knows w h.it'll happen in
tour more years'
bruins' laneene \'ickers ran to
her third sir.oglu c hampion
sluii 1,1 the HMt hurdles win
long in a a t>i
Arizona fresh mu n I am a
Hughes won the high |urnp tv
mg the Nl A A meet record and
breaking the national junior re
lord with her winning lit1,
leap
Villanova s Sonia O'Sullivan
defended her national i hampi
unship in tin- I 1)00, i rinsing to
an enxv w ill III H a. I
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