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Oregon's Bob Grey (left) pushes It to the limit to beet Washington
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won the 400 hurdles end beet his personal best by a lull second.
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By Dave Charbonneau
Emerald Sports Reporter
UCLA got sonic timely per
formance's and won the t’aclfic
10 Conference Track and Field
Championships at Hayward
Field during the weekend
The Bruins scored 123
points, 20 points ahead of sec
ond-place Oregon U.NC fin
isher! a surprising third with 80
points and Washington State
the pre-meet favorite turned
in the most disappointing per
formance of the meet with 7‘H/j
points
After 11 events. UCLA led
the Ducks by only one point,
tint the Bruins' domination in
the sprints was too much for
Oregon to overcome
Tony Miller earned 20 points
for UCLA, winning the 100
und 200-meter rotes, ns the
Ducks failed to muster u single
point in either race He won the
200 despite a cramp in his leg
coming into the last SO motors.
“1 fell my hamstring grab and
then let up." Miller said. "Then
it cramped up again and didn’t
lot up, iiut I only had u few me
ters left, and nil I was thinking
was 'I've got to win.' "
UCLA sealed up the team ti
tle with a first-place finish by
Charles Rogers in the triple
jump and a second-place finish
in the 4x400-moter reloy.
"The meet turned into a dual
meet Iwrtween us and Oregon,"
UCLA coach Bob Larsen said
"Oregon did a nice job. They
made it very competitive this
last day."
Oregon coach Bill Dellinger
said inert! was not much linin'
the Ducks could have done
"I can't !«• unhappy We did
the liest we could," he said
"UCLA was going beyond the
form chart. They're lacking in
distance events, but they made
up for it in everything else "
The Ducks were able lo keep
up with UCLA thanks to some
lough performances in a couple
of events, in particular.
In the 1,500, Oregon's Alan
Foster. Tracy Hollister and Tye
Van Schoiack finished third,
fourth and fifth, respectively, to
close a 13-point gap UCLA held
after the first day of compeli
Photo by J«ft PasUy
USC’s Quincy Walla helped lift the Trojans to a third-place finish in
leal weekend s Pac-10 Conference Track and Field Champion ships.
lion.
Hollister said the runners
were hoping for mom.
■'I wanted to go 1-2 with
Alan," he said, "but we gave
the Ducks u big boost, and I'm
happy ubout that."
Oregon’s Bob ('.ray run a
49.83 in the 400 hurdles to win
thi! race and set a personal re
cord by a full second. Gray,
who finished second in the 110
hurdles earlier in the day, said
the Hayward crowd gave him a
big boost.
”1 came off the eighth hurdle,
and I heard the crowd," he
said "After the ninth and 10th
hurdles, I knew I had it.”
The Ducks also got some
much-needed points when Gra
dy O’Connor and Krik Ylitalo
finished fourth and sixth in the
race.
Larsen said it was the 400
hurdles that made it interesting
at the end.
"I felt we were cruising until
Oregon went one. four, six in
the hurdles and climbed back
into it." Larson said.
However, by the time Oregon
got to !tin events where the
Ducks could make up the most
ground on the Bruins — the
800 and 5,000 — UCLA was too
far out of reach.
'‘You're always worried that
Oregon's 5,000 runners will
rear up and bite you.” Larsen
said "I told our team we had to
have a cushion, and they re
sponded well."
Shannon Lemora, the pro
race favorite in the 800, fin
ished second to Washington's
Mitch Lufflor in the race.
Lemora was obviously not
pleased with his performance.
"I ran a stupid race." Lemora
said.
Oregon's Pat Haller finisher!
socond to Arizona's defending
Pac-10 champion Marc Davis in
the 5,000. Davis also success
fully defended his Pac-10 title
in the steeplechase.
Davis said he was aware that
Haller — who opted not to run
in the 10,000 — would be fresh
for the race.
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Golden Bear throws to records
By Dave Charbonneau
Emerald Sports Reporter
It may have boon the best 24 hours of Kamon Ji
menez-Gaona’s life.
)imonoz-Gaona finished his last final to gradu
ate from California on Friday and promptly
jumped on u plane arriving In Eugene at 11 that
night
All ho did in Eugene Saturday was set personal.
l'aclfic-10 Conference meet, Paraguayan, and
South American records In the discus throw at
the Pac-10 Track und Field Championships at
Hayward Field.
"The way I look at it," Jlmennz-Gaona said,
"this is my graduation present."
Jimenez-Caona set the meet record on his sec
ond throw and then beat that record on his fol
lowing loss of 210-11. His throw eclipsed the na
tional mark in his native country of Paraguay and
assured him a spot on the Paraguayan Olympic
squad.
Belore the Pac-10 meet, Jimenez-Gaona s life
time best throw was 203 feet. His worst throw at
Hayward on Saturday was also 203 feet.
“This was the best competition for me In my
life,” he said "My worst throw today wus my old
porsonal record This season I fell like i was stuck
at 200 feet. Today I really felt good ”
Jimenez-Gaona won last year's Pac-10 title und
finished second at the NCAA Championships.
Since 19H6. Jimenez-Gaona has won the Para
guayan discus championship every year and also
finished in the top 20 ul last year's world cham
pionships.
PNftotiy Jart Pwtoy
California's Ramon Jimenax-Gaona hurled the dis
cus tor personal, Pac-10, Paraguayan and South
American records Saturday at Hayward Field.
With all the success Jimenez-Caona has had in
the discus, getting his education is still the most
important thing on his mind
After earning his bachelor's degree in econom
ics — he missed the ceromony because of the Pac
10 meet — he hopes to get acceptod to graduate
school at California. He said he now wants to re
turn to Paraguay, where he feels his education
can help his country.
"Discus is a short-term goal for me,” he said.
"My education is something thut I will have my
whole life. 1 think my education could be a force
back home."
Jimunez-Caona has one year of eligibility left in
track and said if he is accepted to graduate
school, he will continue to throw for the Bears.