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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