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Women claim
Pepsi Invite title
Aretha Hill of
Washington
dominated the
shot put and
discus events,
breaking the
meet record in
the discus by
30 feet
RESULTS
■ WOMEN
1. Oregon 199.5
2. UW 189
3. Colorado 135
4. ASU 134.5
■ MEN
1. Oregon 210
2. UW 175
3. Colorado 155'
4. ASU 118
By Rob Moseley
Sports Reporter
The sky over Hayward Field was a men
acing gray, but the stars came out for the Pep
si Team Invitational on Saturday.
The Oregon women’s track and field team
took the team title with 199 1/2 points, with
Washington second at 189, Colorado third with
135 and Arizona State fourth with 1341/2.
It was the individuals that made Satur
day’s meet such a spectacle, however, as the
four teams combined for
one automatic NCAA
qualifying mark and 10
provisional standards.
1996 Olympian Aretha
Hill of Washington provid
ed the highlight of the af
ternoon when the collegiate record holder in
the discus unleashed a throw of204 feet, sev
en inches to beat the meet record by 30 feet
and her nearest competitor by almost 50.
“The numbers are intimidating, but she’s
not herself,” Oregon’s Maureen Morrison
said of competing against a former
Olympian. “On one hand it’s great because
she gives you a lot of motivation. On the oth
er hand, you don’t want to follow her. ”
Hill also won the shot put with a put of 48
1 3/4, two-and-a-half inches better than Ore
gon’s Chris Cvitanich, and finished fifth in
the hammer, which was won by Colorado’s
Janet Visosky with an NCAA provisional
throw of 191-2.
In the distance events, Oregon’s Marie Davis
made her move with just over five laps to go in
the 5,000 meters and then ran away from a star
studded field to win in an NCAA provisional
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NICK MEDLEY/Emerald
Oregon !s Marie
Davis runs away
from the pack
during the 5,000
meters of the Pepsi
Team Invitational
on Saturday at
Hayu>ard Field.
Davis' winning
time of 16:26.14
was a personal
best by more than
two seconds.
NICK MEDLEY/Emerald
Gregg Bleakney soars through the air Saturday afternoon on the
way to his third straight triple jump victory, this time with a sea
son best of 53-01/4.
Men easily hold off UW for win
Oregon finished 35 points ahead of
Washington to claim the Pepsi
Invitational Title at Hayward Field
By Alex Pond
Sports Editqr
Several of the nation’s brightest men’s track and field
stars shined individually at the Pepsi Team Invitational
on Saturday at Hayward Field.
But collectively, the Oregon men shined the brightest,
compiling 210 points to easily hold off second-place
Washington, which finished with 175 points. Colorado
and Arizona State finished third and fourth, respectively.
On a sometimes blustery but relatively dry day, the
crowd of 3,680 witnessed first-hand the performances of
some of the nation’s top athletes.
Arizona State’s Mika Laiho, the nation’s No. 1 ham
mer thrower, started things off with an easy win in that
event, tossing the ball and chain 223 feet, four inches for
an NCAA automatic qualifying mark.
Washington’s Ben Lindsey smoked his rivals in both
the discus and shot put. With an NCAA automatic mark
and a new personal best, Lindsey won the shot put with
a put of 63-4. He finished one inch off an NCAA auto
matic mark in the discus, easily win
ning that event with a throw of 293-6.
Piotr Buciarski of Oregon won the
pole vault when he cleared 18-0 1/2,
his outdoor personal best and one of
the top vaults in the nation this year.
Oregon’s Gregg Bleakney also
wowed the Hayward Field crowd in the triple jump,
posting his season best and an NCAA provisional quali
fying mark of 53-01/4. It was the second time in the past
three weeks Bleakney has gone over 52-6.
“I feel real good about my consistency right now,”
Bleakney said.
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Fourth-seeded Ducks aim for title
Paula
Patterson leads
the No. 9
Ducks into the
Pac-10
tournament
averaging 76.1
strokes per
round
By Tim Pyle
Sports Reporter
The fact that the Oregon women’s golf
team, which is ranked No. 9 in the Master
Card Collegiate Golf Rankings, is the No. 4
seed in the Pacific-10 Championships is a
testament to the strength of the conference.
Beginning with the first round today and
running through Wednesday’s third and fi
nal round, the Ducks hope to show they are
underrated, regardless of their conference’s
muscle, in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.
No. 35 Paula Patterson leads Oregon into
play at the 6,120-yard, par-72 Tijeras Golf
Club against six top-25 opponents. In addi
tion to the Ducks, No. 2 Arizona State, No. 3
Arizona, No. 6 Stanford, No. 16 Southern
California, No. 17 Oregon State and No. 20
UCLA will be out to prove they are the cream
of the conference’s elite crop.
If Patterson, who is a senior, plans to end
her conference career with an individual ti
tle, she will have to earn it against a field that
includes five of the top 10 individuals in the
country. The Sun Devils are led by No. 1
Grace Park and No. 3
Kellee Booth.
Patterson, who is tops
on the Ducks with a 76.1
shots-per-round average,
Cill I may be Oregon’s highest
ranked player, but Annika
Heuser is its hottest. No. 90
Heuser won the individual title in the
Ducks’ last competition at the Peg Barnard
Invitational on April 12. Heuser’s strong
showing helped Oregon to a third-place
team finish.
The Ducks’ five-player lineup is expected
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Washington extends win
streak over Oregon men
Alina
Wygonowsk
a leads the
women to
their first
victory in
almost two
months with
a 6-3 win
over
Portland
By Tim Pyle
Sports Reporter
In the final regular season dual match
es for the Oregon tennis teams, it was
more of the same for the men Saturday,
but the women earned something they
had not been able to grasp in almost two
months Sunday — namely, a win.
Washington continued its dominance
of the Oregon men with its second 7-0
win over the Ducks (11-12,0-7 Pacific-10
Conference) this season at the 15th Street
Courts. The loss stretched Oregon’s los
ing streak to the Huskies to 23 years.
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