SPORTS Oregon sears Pac-10 at meet By Jake Berg Emerald Sports Editor The Oregon sun was just too hot for Arizona State. The Sun Devils were picked to finish second in the Pacific* 10 Conference Track Field Championships behind the Ducks over the weekend at Hayward Field, hut they didn't quite do thut. Oregon, on the other hand, did just what was predicted. And more. The Duck women's team won its second-straight Pac-10 team title Saturday with 122 points, far bettor than second-place Ar izona with 90. USC in third at 87, and Arizona State's 69. Oregon head coach Tom Heinonen was obviously happy altout his team's championship, hut he was more pleased with the overall dominance his team showed during the weekend He saiti the difference between this and Inst year's Pac-10 champions wus that the Ducks wore confident they could win. "Last year, we hadn't won before, and we didn't know tf wo could," he said "This year, we knew that an Oregon team could win." And the Ducks let everyone else know, too. "We lost a little hut got a lot," Heinonen said. A whole lot. Things started off on the right webbed foot when the first event of the weekend went to Oregon - us expected. Senior Kim Hyatt, a three-lime All American javelin thrower, won her first Pac-10 title, keeping the championship in Duck hands after Paula Derry won last year "It's great to keep the Pac-10 championship here at Oregon," said Hyutt, who won by more than six feel, "and I think it will stay here for a long time." The reasoning behind Hyatt's prediction was her two fresh men teammates. Kelsey Stellick and Keri Esterbrook Doth wore entered us wild cards into the Pac-10 meet but performed im pressively, especially Stellick. Stellick, who competed in the conference heptathlon the week before, set a personal re cord with a 155-06 throw, good for fourth place. "1 would've been mad if I didn't throw somewhere around there," said Stellick. who had been throwing consis tently In practice all week. “I just wanted to keep going." The meet went on for the rest of the Oregon squad, however, as tho distance events began to put space between the Ducks and their competitors. Froshman Jill Callero run the first 10,000-meter run of hor life Friday night and got third place points for her team. "1 didn't know what to ex pect," Callero said. "I was just MOTORCYCLE AND SCOOTER INSURANCE • Competitive rates • Renters insurance • Monthly rates Venn Vranas, Inc. 741-2280 PtwoDy PmLMf Oregon teemmates Nicole Woodward (right) and Lucy Nusrala were 1-2 in the 3,000- and the 5.000-meter rune in the Pacific-10 Confer ence Track Field Championships this weekend. excited for tho opportunity to try this distance. As for scoring, I thought that would come my sophomore or junior year.” Teammates Nicole Wood ward and Lucy Nusrala fol lowed with a brilliant perfor mance in the 3.000-meter run, an act they nearly duplicated Saturday in tho 5.0(H) Nusrala ran to first in the 3.0(H), with Woodward second, and then the two pulled a switch in (he 5,000 the next night. "Nicole and I had 1-2 pretty much in the honk," Nusrala said after the 3,000 The 5.0(H) saw the Duck run ners make a final-lap surge to race by the rest of tho (Mick. Or egon made some major ground in tho event, as Woodward's first-place points, Nusrala's sec ond and Jenna Carlson's fourth place gave the Ducks a boost. “Coming off the final turn, I thought Lucy was going to win," Woodward said "It was kind of neat that we got to flip flop today." Oregon perhaps got its quick est shot in the arm with its sprinters, though. Camara Jones run like the fu vorito she was in the 400. The sophomore finished just u hun dredth of a second off of her PR in the race. Lisa Bedwull finished a strong third in tho race, und tho two combined with iuammutos LaKoina Woods and Regina Warren to finish second in tho 4x100 relay in a school record 44 87 JOIN NOW! DOC'S COCKTAIL RESEARCH TEAM 165 W. 11th • 683-8101 "Wo should hiivo dono lhal u Ion}; time ago," said Woods, who also finished third in tho too and 200 “Wo worn looking for that tlmo." Anchor leg Warren said that by tho limn (he baton hud reached hnr. the rar:o between tho Ducks and USC was equal But a ()ud handoff prevented Oregon from finishing closer to the First-place Trojans, she said. Bed well and Jones returned for the 4x400 relay the final event The group won the race mostly on Jones' final leg, unof ficially clocked in at 51.3. In the H00. fcrika Klein took runner-up honors for tire sec ond-straight year to Arizona Mate's Kim Toney ”1 kind of feel like I'm always a bridesmaid and never a bride." Klein said The Ducks got other points in the triple jump with Kim Car lisle's fourth place, Molly Dug gan's surprising sixth in the shot put and Karen Wiedmunn's fifth in the 400 hurdles For other schools. Arizona's Tanya Hughes broke the colle giate record in the high jump, clearing 6-5'/i on hnr first at tempt UCLA sophomore Dawn Dumble repeated os l’ac-10 winner In tho discus and the shot put. 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