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Oregon's Heath Howington set personal records In both the discus
and shot put events at Saturday's Oregon Twilight meet.
Howington highlights Twilight
By Dav« Charbonneau
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With a few ext options. it was a relatively quiet
day for the men in Saturday’s Oregon t wilight Inn k
meat at Hayward Field.
Although the meet's marquee event is tradition
ally the Tw ilight Milo, the marquee performam es
took place in the field events
Oregon's Heath Howington set personal ris ords
in both the shot put and the disi us. and his throw
of of 1W)-10 m the latter event was an NCAA pro
visional qualifying mark, only the ms ond su< h mark
for the Ducks this season
Howington seemed to be a little sfn» ked by his
performance.
”1 don't know what happened today." he said
"The discus has been getting progressively Iwtter.
but the shot s been going kind of downhill all se.t
son I just tut a good one toda\ I wish I wouldn t
have done it mi iiiv first throw hoi ause it made it
look like a fluke, but hopefully it w.isn't "
In the hammer. Fugene's lam IVal fell just short
of surpassing his own meet record of -llifi t) with a
toss of 265 1.
With lilt* Pm ifit II) (lonfervnt e miwl coming up
this weekend. ()ragott was hoping to add n few more
qualifiers to ils Pm to squad, tint Hovvington and
4 00-meter hurdler Krik N litaln worn tin* only two
Dm ks to break I’m to standards
Vlitalo finished sis ond tn the hurdles with .t a”
time, three tenths of a second muter the qualify
mg mark
The meet was also a shout use for former C Jregon
athletes Hurdler Bob Gray won the 111) and 4(H)
itteler hurdle events Shannon l.emora lottk first in
the Tw ilight Mile hut fell short of breaking the four
minute mark Pedro daSilva won the triple jump.
Art Skipper led the wav in the javelin, and I hill Nel
son and Damn l.ope/ went 1-J ill sleeplei base
Oregon freshman l.uMont Woods won the fiat
lie ol I )m k sprinters w ith a time of 10 fin in the too.
followed by Knnnie I larns (III ti-t) and LaVon Piert e
I to ID I
Harris won the -too and Piert e finished set ond
Oregon head com h Bill Dellinger said lliings
thtlll I evu tl\ pan out as he had expet ted
"Put mil going to sa\ Pin disappointed, lie said,
"bill I think il was a so so meet lor us
runners shine for women
By Steve Mims
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Oregon seniors Nicole Wood
ward and Frika Klein earned
NCAA provisional limes in dis
tance rai es Saturday night, high
lighting the women's competi
tion in the Oregon Twilight
meet at Hayward Field
Woodward, who already has a
provisional qualifying time in
the 3,000 meters, moved up to
the 5.000 meters Saturday and
covered the course in lf>:21.0.
more than 20 seconds ahead of
the NCAA provisional time.
Klein made it more exciting
than Woodward, qualifying in
the* 1,500 meters with ,* time of
4 2,1 7, two tenths of a second
inside of the NCAA provisional
time.
Woodward finished in filth
place m the 5,000 meters,
behind such former Oregon
greats as Annette Peters, Liz
Wilson and Lucy Nusrala
Peters, running for Nike, won
the rat e by 2 f seconds in a time
of 15:40.5, far behind her meet
record of 15:17.7 set in 1001
Peters, who ran in the 1002
Olympics, broke out of the pack
near the middle of the race and
was never tested in the end.
Peters is coming off of an injury
to her fight lug and has only
been tmining for three weeks
"I am not where I would like
to be." Peters said "But it is a
start Mv rhythm was uncom
fortable. and I started feeling
tired at the end I went a little
harder than I should have, if I
had been more gradual, it
wouldn't have I men so bad
VViUyn and Nusrula, former
teammates at Oregon, finished
third and fourth with times of
Hi 13 A and 1(> 19.7. respective
ly.
Another former Olympian.
Turn to TWILIGHT, Page 10
Blair sets Pac-10 mark
Oregon's hellv li1.1»r won
In n of seven events and set
si hool ami I’ ll ifii lit Confer
erne ns nrits m the heptathlon
at the I’.n Hi Championships
Saturday in Berkeley. Calif
Blair scored s.*IH‘l points,
easily defeating sis ond plat e
Marieke Wellman of t :t I A.
who finished with *>.275
points
Blair won the long jump,
HIM), 100-muter hurdles, high
jump and the 200. breaking
her previous si hool ret ord of
S.7Ct points
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