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MARK McTYREyEmerald Bob Kennedy celebrates his meet record 7:39.22 time in the 3,000-meter run at the Prefontaine Classic on Sunday at Hayward Field. Kennedy was just two seconds off the field record set in 1979. Men’s Pac-10: WSU’s Waltz wins shot put and discus ■ Continued from Page 10 Buciarski at a height of 17-8 1/2. The steeplechase provid ed one of the most exciting finishes of the first day, with Arizona’s Jon Pillow sur passing Oregon’s Micah Davis down the stretch to win in a time of 8:48.17. Washington’s Christian Belz was second, followed by Davis. “It’s a special day to com pete, and to win is beyond belief,” Pillow said. “With 50 meters to go, something inside my head said ‘I can do this,’ and it was like my head was on fire. “I sprinted with every thing I had.” The throwing events also had some spectacular per formances, highlighted by Washington State’s Ian Waltz’s victories in the shot put and discus. Waltz’s throw of 61-8 1/4 was almost two feet better than that of UCLA’s Travis Haynes, who finished sec ond. “I think the main thing was getting good competi tion and getting pumped up,” Waltz said. Waltz came back Sunday morning to finish his double with a throw of 196-4 in the discus, bettering his career best by about five feet. In the first event of the meet, Arizona’s Tapio Kol unsarka tossed the hammer 222-3, which was a Husky Stadium record and gave him the victory. Women’s Pac-10: Three athletes win two titles ■ Continued from Page 11 Skieresz came out in Saturday’s 3,000 with a goal to help Arizona in the team competition. “I didn’t have much of a time goal for this one,” she said. “It’s just all about winning it.” In the 5,000, Skieresz led start to finish without a challenge. Skieresz finished well below the NCAA automatic qualifying mark of 16:16 with a time of 15-min utes, 44.91 seconds. Emebet Shiferaw of USC, the defending conference champion in the 3,000 and 5,000, finished second in a time of 16:24.74. “I was surprised that I was alone for so long,” Skieresz said. “I thought for sure that there’d be some other girls challenging. ” The second double champi onship of the meet came from USC’s Grazyna Penc. Penc se cured her second consecutive conference win in the 1,500-me ter run with a tactical race, and then returned later to claim the 800-meter title. Penc holds the fastest NCAA 1,500 time of the season with a 4:12.05 mark. Torn Edwards, who returned as the Pac-10 Champion in the 100 and 200-meter dashes for USC struggled in both events Sunday. Edwards was fourth in 100 and eighth in the 200. Joanna Hayes pulled off the third double title of the meet by defending her 100-meter hurdles title with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 13.04. Hayes claimed the 400-meter hurdles ti tle in 56.38. UCLA’s cause was also helped out with its 1-2 finish in the 400 meter dash with Darlene Malco and Andrea Anderson. Anderson also won the 200 in 23.75. Only nine points separated the bottom four teams. The host, Washington, finished last, but was just nine points away from fifth-place Oregon. Third-place Stanford finished the meet behind UCLA and USC as the only other team to score over 100, with 110 points. Arizona was fourth with 87. Frank: Prize money would attract more fans to track ■ Continued from Page 12 “I don’t think one person will gain the title of world’s fastest man because you’ll never know, because you don’t have the world’s fastest people,” Drum mond said. “You’ve got two peo ple versus, say 10.” Maybe the entire sport of track and field should follow the lead of the Johnson-Bailey race. Like thrower John Godina sug gested, maybe all track and field meets should have prize money, and make that prize money known to the public. “Throw a lot of money around, the rest of the country will pay at tention. They’re not track-educat ed like Eugene is,” said Godina, who won the discus Sunday. “You can get the crowd if you just promote it the right way. ” No matter what direction track and field takes to attempt to gain interest in the United States, one thing is for certain: It is not going to be easy. Ryan Frank is the sports editor for the Emerald. His views do not necessarily represent those of the paper. 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