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Athletes qualify at Twilight meet By Jake Berg and Dave Charbonneau Emerald Sports Writers It was railed the Oregon Twi light. but it may have well been a preseason moo* for the Olym pic Trials. Many faces soon at the Hay ward Field moot will also pop up in a month at the trials in Now Orleans. And many of them performed like Olympi ans. Lance Deal made the biggest noise— figuratively and physi cally — when his hammer loss went 2t>(> feet, second (rest -in American history. The Eugene resident's throw was not only a personal best, it was also a Hay ward and meet record. Maria Mutola. a 19-year-old Springfield High School stu dent. ran an Olympic qualify ing time for her native country of Mozambique in the 1.500 meter run. Her meet record 4:07.50 was a personal best and topped Shelly Steely, who beat Mutola last year in the Twilight rar.o. "This time she was a little more seasoned," Steely said of Mutola, “If I'd just run 4 07. I’d be real confident now." Mutola said she would like to double in the 800 and 1.500 at Hurcelona. something she said was more of a dream a yuar ago. "Then I would have run a 4:20," Mutola said. "Now I've run a 4:07." The other distance show down featured Eugene resi dents Annette Peters and Mary •Slaney squaring off in the 5,000 Peters won the event, which is her specialty, in a 15:27.6 — way ahead of Slaney's 15:52.5 Peters said she immediately took the lead offered by Slaney, who was competing outdoors for the first time this year. and was surprised to find she had lieaten her by so much "I’ve been in races with her before, but I was never the one wiio was her competition." she said "Confidence-wise, it's good. "I definitely didn't want to take the lead." Peters said "She just gave it to tne. and I just said the hock with it I just took it.” The Oregon women's track team got what it was looking for out of the Twilight Pacif ic-it) Conference Champion ships qualifiers, said head coach Tom Holnonon Erika Klein and Kim Hutson finished 1-2 In tt 00-meter Pac 10 qualifying times for the Ducks. Neither hud qualified for the event previously, and Klein, the Pac-10 runner-up last year, said that was all she was looking for in the event. I |usi wanton 10 ijuiimy that was the most important thing," '-aid Klein, who won in 2:0*1.25. "It fools good to finally run where I want to be.” "That gives us a lot of lati tude — just what we wanted," Heinonen said. Heinonon said he was espe cially surprised with Monica Davidson and Amy Pelrono, who both ran Pac-10 qualifying times in the 1,500. The popular Twilight Mile was the highlight of the men’s portion of the meet Oregon's Shannon Lemoro won the final event of the evening with a time of 4:04 01. a disappointing time for fans who were hopeful to see a sub-four-minute mile Oregon coach ilill Dellinger blamed a late start on the poor times "I wish the mile would have STELLICK Continued from Page 8 "I guess you'd call it success ful." Stream said "Our goal go ing in was tu gut -1.700 and place. Shu did one of the two." Steltick went into the heptathlon with the lowest score of the nine competitors, hut after two athletes were forced to withdraw because of injuries. Stellirk’s chances of scoring improved Washington's Sonju Forster, who as the fourth-place finisher last year was the top rotumor. won the competition in a PR of 5.266 Although Stellick may not have been the best of tho field over the weekend, her winning 149-10 Javelin throw, which was a season best by more than six feet, is a new Pac-tO heptathlon record. "I'm real happy with that mark," Stellick said. "I just re taxed and threw The previous record throw of 14H-2 was ironically held hy former Duck heptathlons Slofa nle Hunter, who was competing in the long jump Saturday as part of the Twilight Meet and often trains with Oregon Only the 1990 UCLA team was able to win a Pac-10 title without points in the heptathlon, indicating that Ore gon's quest to repeat at Hay ward Field this week may be difficult Last year s league winners started the Pac-TO moot with points from heplathletes Kelly Blair and Kamala Kohlmeior. who finished sec ond and fifth, respectively Stream said that if Blair hadn't rodshlrtcd this year, last year's runner-up would have probably taken the heptathlon title, Blair soorod 5.404 points last season for second. started atx>ui .1 half-hour earli er." Dellinger said 'When it's this (iiirk out, runners think they 're running faster than they are I think everyone in the race wishes the time would have been a little faster " Nut Lemoni "I'm not disappointed with my lime." Lemora said I ha ven’t run the mile or the 1.500 much this year, so I think it was a good rai n for me." Pat Haller Improved on his NCAA provisional time with a 1 :t 54.43 In the 5.000-meter' rai e. and Kick Meatier ■fell a half-second short of an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the steeplechase "I would have liked to have boon a half-second faster." Mestler said, "hut I've got Pae 108 next week and 1 think IBV. time today will be good enough to get me into the NCAAs "Haller ran 11 good race." 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