New and old Ducks
put on rainy show
By Jake Berg
CVwgoo Daily tr*n#kt
Due ks past and present
«ndtired the one consistency of
Oregon truck and field Saturday
at Hayward Field — the weath
er.
And despite n little sun here,
and a lot of rain there, the ath
letes put up some respectable
numbers at Saturday’s Oregon
Invitational.
"It was raining, and oil of «
sudden, bam! Maybe someone
was praying for good weather.''
said former Duck Art Skipper,
who won the javelin with a 216
1 throw under one of the day *
brief periods of sunshine
Shannon I-omora. who along
with Skipper finished his Ore
gon career last year and now
competes for Oregon Interna
tional. won the 1.500-meter run
in ,1:46,12.
Femora led Carlton Jones for
the first three laps before Jones
pulled out in front on the last
lap Femora let him go for .100
meters but passed Jones after the
lust corner for the win,
”1 didn't want to get into an
arm-wrestling match with him
oil the lust lop." he said
A current Duck who hod per
haps the l>est tiny of any one off
of the Oregon men's team was
La Von Pierce.
Pierce won the 100 and 200.
and ran legs on the winning
4x100 and 4x400 relay Iranis,
though the track was unfriendly
and wet,
"Actually, it was one of the
best days I've had since 1 left
high m hool." Piert* said.
Fellow sprinter Ronnie Harris
had a similar day. The senior
also ran legs on the two winning
relays arid look a 46,6 first pirn r
in the 400 during his first race at
that distance this season
Thrower Heath Howington
won the shot put with a 56-1 3/4
throw and placed second in the
discus with a 156-5 throw
Two other former Ducks, Dan
ny Icijm-/. and Brian Wright, also
competed well. Lopez, an
Olympian living hi Eugene, won
the steeplechase in H 40 49. and
Wright took first in the 400 hur
dles in 51.7.
Hammer thrower Lance Deal,
another Eugene Olympian, won
his event on his first throw of
260-to, a meet record.
Friday. Oregon freshman Ray
Livingston finished first in the
decathlon with a personal
record w ore ol 6,987. Livingston
won the pole vault, long jump
and high jump
PtxWoOy TNatxn
Eugene Olympian Lance Deal eel a meet record ol 260-10 In the ham
mer throw at Saturday'a Oregon Invitational at Hayward Field.
WEEKEND ROUNDUP
Oregon pitcher Ra< hullo Taylor hit an Ore
gon Stato batter with the bases loaded in the
ixitlom of the 10th inning, giving the Beavers
a 3-2 victory in Corvallis Friday.
The Ducks fell to 13-12 on the season and
5-4 in the Pacific-10 Conference
Oregon used a first-inning home run by
Usa Preston to jump out to an early 1-0 lead.
The Duc ks' lend grew to 2-0 in the top of the
third before Oregon State's Tricin Barr tied
the game with a two-run homer.
• ••
The Oregon women's tennis team con tin*
U«d lo increase its school-record victory total
by knocking off Washington Slate and Seat
tle University over the weekend. The Ducks
are now 24-4 on the season.
Oregon got two three-set victories front
Krissy Barger and Kara Yoshida. os the
Ducks upset the Cougars 6-3 Friday. Oregon
rolled over Seattle 7-2 .Saturday
• • •
Jon Amundsen won both of his singles
matches Saturday as the Oregon men's ten
nis team finished a strong second at the Pac
10 Northern Division tournament
Washington won its 11th straight division
title with 51 points. The Ducks Rnished with
2fi points, well ahead of Washington State,
which finished with four.
The Oregon men’s golf team is in fourth
place after the first round of the lfi-team U.S.
Intercollegiate at Stanford. Calif.
Duck Cam Marlin is tied for second, two
shots behind the leader. Oregon is at 295,
eight shots behind first-place California.
Washington is second at 291. and Nevada is
third at 294.
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Women
to open
Pac-1 Os
By Stev* Mims
Oregon Oatty C me>a>a
The Oregon women's golf
learn will kick off its postseason
this morning at the Pacific-10
Conference Championships in
Walla Walla. Wash.
The Ducks have had good
showings in the past two confer
ence championships, finishing
fourth in 1001 and coming in
fifth place last year. The Ducks'
fourth-place finish two years ago
was their best ever at the Pac-10
tournament.
The Ducks have finished in
the top five in five of their eight
tournaments this season, includ
ing a second-place finish at the
Nike/Oregon State invitational
last week. Oregon has finished
runner-up in two tournaments
this year and has also taken two
fourth-place finishes and a fifth
place slot,
i.eigh Casey has led the Ducks
this season with a 77.7 average
that includes five top-five fin
ishes. Casey finished second at
the Bruin Classic in the fall and
finished in sixth place last week.
Shannon Maier returns to the
conference tournament after fin
ishing eighth last season. Maier
has a 78.2 stroke average and
was runner-up at the BYU Invi
tational last month.
|unior Cappy Mack is fourth
on the team with a 79.2 average
and is coming off of a 25th-place
finish last week. Mack's best fin
ish of the year was 11th place at
the Stanford Classic this fall
when she shot a season-low 227
for the 54-hole tournament.
A pair of sophomores. Karly
Mills and Shannon Hare, round
out the Oregon roster for the
tournament. Hare just had her
best tournament of the year,
when she finished 10th last
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