Duck track teams to face Huskies By Dave Chartoonneau and Scott Simonson . n*rfy f With both th»> men and women seeking to answer ques tions about how good they i an lie and how far thuv tan advani c this season. Oregon's trat k teams open their dual meet sea sons at Washington on Saturday The Ort*gon men's team began its season two weeks ago with a quiet showing in the Oregon Preview meet Other than m the 3,000 meters, where Rh k Cantwell, Karl Keska and St ott Nicholas took the top three places, the Dm ks had few high lights. Oregon rebounded with a strong showing at the Stanford Track and Field Festival last weekend I thought the team really performed well down there, almost across the hoard for everyone We had a lot of PKs (personal records) and lot of good performances,” said Ore gon head coach Hill Dellinger Nicholas, a sophomore, became the first athlete on the Oregon men s team this season to reach a provisional qualifying mark for the NCAA champi onships. Nicholas set a person al record and reached the quali fying standard with a time of t minutes, 43.1*1 seconds in the 1.300 meters Also at Stanford, freshman Chris Nelson heat defending Pai ifie-10 (.onfurent e champion Kevin Keane of California in the high jump Nelson i leared n feet, 11 ,3-4 im ties Jeroim Williams won the pole vault, and Oregon won the distance medley relay Looking ahead to Saturday s meet in Seattle, Dellinger said, We're as ready as we're going to he at this stage 1 think we still are going to get better as the sea son goes along. "We're about where wo should be Maybe the 400 guvs could be a little further ahead, hut 1 think that will come,” he said Dellinger named the sprint and relay groups, the middle distance and distance groups, and the high jump and pole vault as being among Oregon's strong suits early in the season. The javelin, where (Oregon has a group of promising but young talent, and the high hurdles may lie the Dili ks weaknesses Jamnr Williams plai ed fourth ill the 111) meter hurdles at the I’m 10 meet last season as a freshman, but Williams has left the trru k team and did not enroll for spring term at the I Ini varsity "iamnr. unfortunately, pist wasn't real happy here." Dellinger said "It was a combi - nation of not being real happy anti not doing well in si hool Oregon had a 15-meet win ning streak against Washington before losing in Seattle in 1000 Oregon, which finished fifth at last year's Pai 10 meet, has won its last three meetings with the Huskies For the Oregon women's track team. Saturday's meet will i on tinue its rebuilding process Oregon comes into the meet with a lot of questions looming about |ust how good this team will be The Ducks took fourth at last year's NCAA meet but lost three of their five scorers to graduation A fourth. Camara Jones, has opted to redshirt this season Only heptathlete Kelly Blair, who won the NCAA chumpi unship in the event, returns to the team this season However. Blair will compote sparingly, it at all, Saturday because she is nursing tendinitis in her left knee So. for Oregon head coni h I out Heinonen. Saturday's meet with the Huskies is a i ham e to see what his options are for this season. "Our team is young and we're not particularly ready right now because of injuries," tie said "This is not an important meet in the long range, it's pist the next meet and it’s the first si or mg meet for us outdoors We re looking at the javelin, triple jump, 400 meters and the 800 .is being among the more < ompeti live events " The Ducks could get big points in the javelin with Keri Fsterbrook. Tonia Koth and Kelsy Stellick All three have the possibility of winning the event and making a step toward replacing Ashley Selmnn, w ho won the NCAA title last season WORLDWIDE Kor plasma Increases everyday C