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Lisa Bedwell helps fellow Oregon
after a grueling race.
Pfvoto 0y Pmiaf
runner Camara Jones to her feel
Women’s track team
makes good showing
FROM THE
SIDELINES
BY JAKE BERG
They didn't compute in tho
multi-events, but at Satur
day’s close, they might
have felt as tirod as a
hoptathlete after a day's work.
By the end of the Pacific-10
Conference Track and Field
Championships during the
weekend at Hayward Field,
more than a handful of the 24
athletes from the first-place Or
egon women's track team had
done their part to help the
Ducks repeat.
Camara Jones. Nicole Wood
ward. LaReina Woods. Lucy
Nusrala. Erika Klein. Lisa Bed
well. Jenna Carlson. Julie Bock.
Lots of names Lots more
events.
“We've got quality and quan
tity both." said Oregon head
coach Tom Heinonen. “We
were able to utilize it in this
moot."
Jones' hot feet torched her
competition in the 400-meter
run. Bedwell ran to third in the
same race. Follow sprinter
Woods finished third in the 100
and the 200.
And all three ran the 4x100
relay for the Ducks in a school
record time and second place
in the conference.
"We had a lot of unity."
Jones said. “This time 1 felt like
we wore all on."
Jones and Bedwell were also
on in the 4x400 relay — the last
event of the meet — and
Woods, who usually runs the
relay, declined, still trying to
catch her breuth from trying to
catch lnger Miller and Chryste
Caines in the 200.
Following the 100, Woods
said she wasn't tired. Not yet,
at least, she said.
“I should be after tho 200,"
Woods said.
Erika Klein was more than
happy to fill in for Woods, little
more than an hour after taking
second in the BOO.
While Jones, Bedwell, Woods
and Klein found themselves an
swering questions between
breaths and drinks of water.
Woodward and Nusrala made
doubling look easy
Nusrala beat out her running
partner Friday night for first in
the 3,000, but Woodward re
turned the favor Saturday by
taking Jop honors ahead of
Nusrala in the 5.000
Following the two rucus, the
interview area found Wood
ward and Nusrolu to lie quite
polite guests In their business
as-usual-type manner — as tf
winning Pac-10 championships
was an everyday occurrence.
The Ducks certainly couldn’t
have done it without their
“doublers.” but some played
the role of an exhausted athlete
well enough to win a confer
ence title bused Just on merit
Bedwell said thut she felt the
thick air of spring dragging on
her lungs and feet right from
the start of the 400. But that
didn't stop her from getting
third-place points for Oregon
"I can still feel it," said an
out-of-breoth Bedwell, "I don't
have any oxygen."
Jones wasn't lacking for air,
but she did have plenty of but
terflies. she said
"I've never been that nervous
before." Jones said after run
ning only her third 400 this
season. "It's the first time since
high school that anyone expect
od anything of mo "
Klein anticipated plenty of
herself though she only quali
fied for the Puc-10s at the Ore
gon Twilight the weekond be
fore Besides running a leg on
the 4x400 relay, the senior fin
ished as the H00 runner-up for
the second year in a row.
"I have to be happy with
that." she said, "but I’d like to
do more."
Could they have done any
more. though?
Jake Burg is the sports editor
of the Emerald.
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"I know t had to get away from Pot because ho
was the freshest one out there." he said. "Out it
hurt doing it that way."
The meet turned into a two-tram rare .liter
Washington State got off to a horrendous start
In the the very first event of the moot. Malt
Shaffer fouled his way to a sixth-place finish in
the hummer
In the steeplechase, Samuel Kibiri lost points
for Washington State by finishing fifth in the race
After the first day. Washington State had only
H.!S points, more than 40 [minis behind UCLA
One of the individual highlights of the meet
was u l’tic-10 record set by California's Ramon |i
mono/ r>uona in the discus His throw of 210-11
crushed the old record by three feet
Oregon's Art Skipper won his first I’m: 10 title
in four attempts in the Javelin with a sub-par
throw of 2:15-11 Skipper, who has a season best
of 251 feet, has been trying to heal a torn stomach
muscle and was just happy to lie able to throw.
"I didn't feel good ut all. but I didn't want to
moan and cry about it.” he said "All I wanted
was to help the team out ”
USt'.'s third-place finish could be attributed to
the running of Quint y Watts Walts won the -loo
and ran the anchor legs of the Trojans' relays
teams, which both finished first
Watts finished second at the NCAA Champion
ships last year and came Into this season as the
top collegiate runner In the nation
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