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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1995)
Sports Oregon Invitational gives men momentum Trevor Kearney OrifQoty (-Wy f mufaik? While Saturday's On*gon Invi tational offered tra< k fans a chance to get a glimpse of world record holder Dan O’Brien, for mer Oregon siar Annette Peters and Olympic hammer thrower ljuice Deal, the real excitement came from the Oregon men’s track team itself. The twilight invitational por tion of the meet saw four Oregon runners notch personal best times, as freshman Pat Johnson shattered his best times in both the 100-meter dash and the 200 meter dash, and sophomore Ben Andrews, junior Karl Keska and freshman Matt Davis all followed suit in the 1500-meter run. "1 think this meet has been a good meet for us,” Oregon head coach Bill Dellinger said "It was a good overall day with a few out standing results I think it has been a real profitable meet." While the non-scoring meet gave the team a chance to rest and escape worry about an overall win, it also gave individuals a chance to concentrate on their personal records. "This has been a good break. It is gtxxi to have the break of a non si oring meet," Dellinger said “The scoring pressure of the meet is released, and you are able to move guys around." That freedom, Keska said, pro vides for a certain amount of pressure as well. "Even though it is not a scor ing event, there is a lot of pres sure." said Keska, adding most runners try to reach their per sonal bests, providing for tougher competition. But Keska and Andrews both handled that competition just fine in the 1500. as Andrews' 3 Tum to TRACK Page 16 -i *.» XNK.' -Mi Hi ? - * ,v.i Oregon senior Sara Jessie catapulted herself to another Oregon school record, as well as an Oregor Invitational record, with her gravity-defying triple-jump outing on Saturday Jessie propels Ducks in meet Kris Henry Ck&gon (Xtry tmgrskS The Oregon women did their best mail-c tuner imita lion on Saturday, delivering ram or shine at the Oregon Invitational with impressive individual performances High winds, driving rain and occasional sunshine pro vided the backdrop for one of the more intriguing track and field meets of the season, as the Dm ks were able to com pete with some of the nation's finest athletes “It was a pretty good day doing what we needed to do," Oregon head c oat h Tom Heinonen said "This was good for us in all respects. This was the right meet for us at this point in the season." Oregon was led by senior st is! wort Sara Jessie who skipped her way onto again into tint Oregon retard hooks with a 4i-4 leap in m i sera hit conditions Jessie's feat gar nered h«n both the Oregon and meet record, while aim vault mg her up the NCAA provi atonal list All this coming after a full perfortnatu e in the Turn to WOMEN Page 14 Oregon blanked in weekend softball action Joel Hood ft" !t» Oeycm 0*iy f rrmokJ In a disappointing 7-0 loss to No I UCLA on Friday and two more losses, 6-0 and 4-0 to the 19th-ranked Wash ington Huskies on Saturday, the Ore gon women's softhali team may have lost its final shot at crocking the top ^5 this season, failing six games iieiovv 500. The Ducks, now 13-19 overall and 3 H in the Pacific-10 Conference, were unable to take advantage of the oppor tunity given to them — the chance to gi-t hack Into the Put in r it * e, while beating two of the nation's top teams at home "We have to get back to basics," said Oregon head coach Tami Brown, after Saturday’s twin bill. “We need to play aggressive and do the little things that help us win." On Friday, the Ducks fell victim to a T urn To SOFTBALL. PaejeTo us/Ar./fM^wj Th« Oregon softball bats were frozen over the weekend as the Ducks went hitless against No 1 UCLA and dropped a pair of games to No 18 Washington April 17. 1W5 V otumc on, I\m«* I'' Oregon men netters complete best dual season ever Despite losing the final dual of the season. 3 0 to Boise State on Sunday Ofo yon posted its best record over with ,i 27-9 mark Only lour ol the singles matches were played, two of thorn ending m a t o. With Boise State taking the two that decided Ttio Broti cos won the only doubles match played to take the unconventional cottage tennis natci B ■Statt- s Kenneth Bak er defeated Oregons t tans Fofstxiig (4 6 6 3 6-2) while Du- ks dougai Wiixirns and Josh Prager tx>th tied there mati he*, th11:■.«• Statu s V'i '.i' SJva ousted Adetbed Riodtf (6-3 6 2) In doubles competition, AntfKiny Adams a-d Kristian Wn!e< ot Bo se State defeat od Oregon's John DeVorss ni Mike (a tsti! n (fi .t, i. 4) Oregon women net ters trail in Pac-10 Northern Division Washington State iuad ■:-(j Washington to? the North ern Division title with a 32-27 lead through Saturday night's matches Oregon was in third with |ust two points, losing aM 14 mate hes during the sec ond day of competition Mate ties continue through Surxtay evening ON THIS DATE ■ 1939 Joe Louis knocks out Jack Roper at 2 20 of the first round m Los Angeles to retain the world heavyweight title. ■ 1976 — Mike Schmidt ot the Philadelphia Phillies hits lour consecutive home runs and a single in an 18-6, 10 inning victory over the Cups m Wngley Field. ■ 1982 — The Denver Nuggets tronteourl of Ales English. Dan Issel and Kiki Vandewegho becomes the first to each average 20 points per game since Bob Pettit. Clift Hagan and Clyde Lovellette ol St Louis in 1961 ■ 198/ — Julius Erving ol the Philadelphia /6ers becomes the third player to score 30.000 points in his professional career. Erving scores 38 points to join Wilt Chamberlain and Kareorn Abdul Jabbar. 1MTHAI.0
