-Oregon Daily Emerald Sports
Women lose crown to Bruins
By Dave Charbonneau
Oregon Oariy ZmeraKf
The Oregon women's track and
field team prides itself on its com
petitiveness in all events.
During the weekend, the
Ducks' balanced attuck was
enough to slip past the sprint
heavy Arizona State team, but
could not overcome UCLA's
power in the field events, ns Ore
gon finished second behind the
Bruins at the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships in Berkeley.
Calif.
Oregon scored points in vir
tually every event and took first
in four events, but UCLA scored
60 points in the field events and
coasted to a 27-point victory,
breaking the Ducks' two-year lock
on the conference trophy.
The Bruins tallied 146 points.
Oregon finished with 119. and
Arizona State took third with
104.
After the first seven events Fri
day. the Ducks held a six-point
advantage over the Bruins thanks
largely to Ashley Selman's win
in the javelin and Kelly Blair's
third-place finishes in the high
jump and long jump. Distance
runner Heidi Van Borkulo-Gold
stein also helped Oregon's cause
with a second-place finish in the
10.000.
Selman tuned up for the NCAA
Championships with a throw of
175-2 to win over Washington's
Kristin Ronning. who uncorked
a throw of 167-7 early to put the
pressure on Selman. Selman's
throw w'us just six feet short of
tier season-best of 181-4.
UCLA was able to stay close
with a 1-2-5 finish in the shot put
led by Dawn Dumble and Valey
ta A It house. Bill Dumblfl and Alt
house hud more in store Satur
day as Ihey finished 1-3 in the
discus
Soon, it became inevitable that
Oregon'* main goal was to con
centrate on the rat e for second,
and the sprinters held their own
and then some against the pow
erful Arizona State crew
In the 100, Larelna Woods
breezed past the field to win the
event with a mark of 10.58. equal
ing hor personal record
Then, it was Camara (ones who
stepped up and delivered with
an upset victory over the Sun
Devil's Tayo Akinremi and
Shanequo Campbell in a NCAA
automatic qualifying time of
51.55, breaking her own school
record.
Jones and Woods teamed up
with Lisa Hedwell and Jamila
Godfrey to win the 4x 100-meter
relay, earning a provisional qual
ifying mark and also setting a
school record.
Godfrey, who is only a fresh
man. took the baton with u slight
lead over the Arizona State team,
and was able to hold off the Sun
Devils’ anchor brilliantly down
the stretch.
Oregon's Nicole Woodward
came off a disappointing fifth
place finish in Friday's 3.000 to
finish second in Saturday's 5,000
with a time of 16:46.43.
Krika Klein continued her tra
dition of coming up big in big
races, finishing second in the
1,500, just two-tenths of a second
behind Arizona State's Kim
Toney,
Hluir, who set a Pan-10 record
the weekend before in the hep
tathlon. took, another third place
in the 100-meter hurdles Blair
ended a< counting for 28 of Ore
gon's points Other Oregon point
scorers included Woods adding
a fourth-place finish in the 200.
Tonia Roth with a fourth place
finish m the javelin. Ntamh Zwa
geruian who also finished fourth
in the 10.000. and the 4x400 relay
team which finished third.
Sara Howell (triple jump). Julie
Beck (shot put), Mary Anderson
(long jump) and Kori Ksterbrook
(javelin) all took sixth in their
respective events
The only event Oregon was
unable to st ore points in was the
400-meter hurdles.
Ari/.ona State was able to stay
t lose to the Dm ks with a 1-2-3 in
the 800. a second place in the
4x100, and first places in the
4x400. 1(H) hurdles and the 200
The Sun Devils s« ored all hut six
of their points on Saturday
Arizona took fourth with 71
followed by USO (44). Washing
ton State (38). Washington (24).
Stanford (23) and (California (20)
The Due ks' final chance to
qualify athletes for the NC'.AAs
will tie Wednesday at the Kd
Moeller Open at Mavwurd Field
The NCAA championships
will start June 2 in New Orleans
and run through June 15
Oregon lias already qualified a
number of athletes for the
NCAAs. lint many of those marks
are only provisional Many nth
letos are looking to improve those
provisional marks into automat
ic marks
The event qualifiers should bn
announced by the end of the
week
Men salvage fifth
after weak first day
By Dave Charbonneau
l Vague t Xt-'V I
The Oregon men's ira< k and field team salvaged a fifth |>hu e
finish after a troublesome first day at tin* Pm ifu ■ 10 (.onfenow e
Championships In Berkeley, Calif . over the weekend.
After Friday 's s«*ven events, the Dm ks found themselves in
dead last and flirting with the worst finish in Oregon history
at the meet
But on Saturday, the Dm ks regrouped with some timely (>er
formam es and dug themselves out of the cellar l ICI.A demol
ished the field, winning nine of 20 events and outs< oring sei
mid-place Arizona bv 70 points The Bruins ran up 171) points,
the Wildcats had 01. followed by DSC (H'l 7>). California (7HI.
and Oregon (60 ri)
On Friday. the Ducks failed to earn a single point in the ham
mer. (avelm and long jump, and Derek Snelling. who i ame into
the pole vault event with the set ond best qualifying height,
failed to finish in the top six
Despite the fm t Oregon fa I lei I to win a single event the entire
meet. Saturday's perfomiant es gave the Dm ks reason to Im> oplc
mistic for next season
Sophomore Fm White was the highest finisher for Oregon,
plai tug set ond in the high jump Junior Cordon Johnson was
fourth in the 800. junior laVon Fieri e finished fifth in the 1(M).
and sixth in the 200, freshman Jamer Williams plai ml fourth
in the 4(H). freshman Ray lav ingston look sixth m the (Mile vault,
sophomore Todd Bleakney was fourth in the triple jump, and
freshman Scott Nicholas got third in the 1.5(H)
Nicholas also earned an N( !AA provisional qualifying mark
in the roi e. the third Duck to do so this season
Oregon also made up ground in the 401) hurdles, where link
Ylitalu set a PK in event and finished fourth ahead of teammate
Grady O'Connor who finished fifth
Ronnie Harris ran an impressive 4li t>l> in the 400 but could
only salvage fourth in the event Devon flosey plm ml third in
the triple jump, ond Jason Walton tiMik fourth in the high jump
Heath Howington s sixth-plai e finish in the shot put round
ed out Oregon's si ormg in the meet
UCI.A fed off a 1-2-3-5 finish in the shot put. and a I 2 fin
ish in the hammer on the first day of i oinpetition From there,
the Bruins' sprinters tiMik over with a 2 t finish hi the lot), and
first-place finishes m the 400. and troth relay races
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