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■ Oregon Daily ElllCrclldl S pOftS Andre Cason (140), who was the national champion and was ranked second In the world at 100 meters last year, finished second to Jon Drum mond (141) In the 100 at the Pretontalne Classic at Hayward Field on Saturday Croghan, Kennedy shine at Prefontaine meet By bcott blmonson Of&gon Daily Emerald The 20th annual Prefontaine Classic track meat provided some performances that the international track world will notice. Those performances weren't provided by Bubka and Mutola. They were provided In Mark and Bob. Mark Croghan ran the fastest 3,000-meter steeplechase in the world this year, and Boh Kennedy was victorious in a record-setting field in the men's mile at Saturday's Prefontaine meet at Hayward Field The two stole some of the thunder from two of the world's dominant track athletes, pole vaulter Sergey Bubka and women's middle distance star Maria Mutola. but they didn't steal the show Bubka and Mutola made bids for world records at the meet Both feil short in their attempts to rewrite record IxHiks, but both won their events and the contin ued adulation of the Hayward Field fans Bubka cleared 19 feet, fi.25 inches to set a meet record and win the pole vault. He made three attempts at 20 feet, 1 75 inches, u half-inch above the world record anti failed “This is it beautiful stadium It's such a nice crowd they came to help me jump," Bubka said. “It is hard to jump for a world record in an empty stadi um." While Bubka made his second attempt at a world record and the crowd's attention and applause were focused on the pole vault runway. 1H runners ciri led the trai k in the Pre fontaine Mile. Nearly invisible to a crowd of 7.6:)7. the toilers ran a frenetii last lap Boh Kennedy, display ing a kick that belonged in an 800-meter race, outsprinted the field in the final 200 meters and won the race. But the rest were close behind. Although Kennedy's clocking of 3:56.21 didn't even break the meet record in the mile, the next 11 runners to cross the finish line broke the four-minute barrier According to meet organizers, 12 sub-four minute miles in a single race was the most ever ill the United States Earlier in the meet, Mutola made tier hid for a world record in the 1.000 meters Mutola was two seconds shy of the world record at last year's f’re meet Shu was about three sot onds off this time, finishing in 2: 0 11 "It was ,i little cold for mu." Mutola said "I think it is hard to sprint m this weather I thought 1 would do a little better in the last 100 (meters), hut I could feel that mv legs were a little tight "1 will he happy when I get the world record." she said. "I was happy with tonight." While television cameras, reporters and autograph seekers sought Mutola. Croghan was making a hid for a meet record in the Steepler huso His time of H:2l 7fi didn't set a record. It was the best time in the world tins year, although the interna tlonal track season is still in its early stages In the men's too meters, two of the United States' top sprint ers dueled to a tight finish Jon Drummond defeated Andre Uuson by two hundredths of a second in the race, with Drum mond winning in 10.15 seconds Hammer thrower Lanee Deal won easily in his event, although the winning mark by America s top-ranked hammer thrower was well off his season lies! Deal threw 259 feet. H inch es, which was fi feet fewer his season f>est and 9 feet fewer the American record Su/.v Hamilton ran at the hai ls of Annette Peters fur must of tlu- women's 2,000 maters, than ran away on the t.losing lap to win a butt la between two of the nation's premier woman tbs lain a runners Hamilton said it was the first time she had ever run a 2,000, so she chose to stay behind Peters and try to let someone else set the pace for the rai e Peters apparently thought Hamilton was too close behind " There was a point in the race with about two laps to get where Annette turned and said 'Got off my heels,' and I was gist kind of shocked" said Hamilton, who apologized to Peters after the race I did hit her heels, hut it wasn't intentional I'm just had at running behind people " Three local favorites won their respective events Spring field's Craig Blanchette won the men's wheelchair mile in 3:37.31 South Eugene High School's iiethany Lucas set a meet record in the high school girls' 800 meters with a time of 2:00 02. 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