Men: O agon won 4x1,600 two years ago
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NICK MEDLEY/Emerald
Jody Mortimore (26) and Jason Mayo (23) hope for smooth ex
changes like this one at the Drake Relays.
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“I think it’s a good meet,”
Dellinger said. “It’s a sellout-type
meet. It’s a big event for the peo
ple back in Des Moines, and I
like it better than the Penn Re
lays because it’s a little bit more
homespun and I think the ath
letes are treated better than at
Penn. At Penn it’s always crowd
ed.”
One of the expected highlights
for the Ducks will be the return of
Matthew Davis, who will com
pete in the 5,000 meters in his
first race since 1996. Davis, who
earned all-American honors in
the 10,000 meters at the NCAA
Championships in 1996, missed
all of last season because of in
juries.
“I just want him to run a race,”
Dellinger said. “I don’t care how
he finishes as long as he feels
good about his race. That’s the
primary objective. He’s a very tal
ented young man, and this will
answer some questions for him
and for me, too."
Fifteen Oregon athletes are
scheduled to compete in Des
Moines, and the Ducks will be
competing in three different re
lays — the 4x1,600-meter relay,
the distance medley and the
4x400-meter relay.
The 4x1,600 relay is one of the
meet’s featured events, which
Oregon won two years ago.
“We’d like to go back there and
win the thing,” said Micah Davis,
who is likely to lead off for the
Ducks in that event. “We'd like to
secure the title for Oregon again.”
While the relays steal the head
lines at Drake, there are expected
to be some exciting matchups in
several other events as well.
One interesting matchup
should come in the pole vault,
where Oregon’s Piotr Buciarski
will get a rematch against Min
nesota’s Vesa Rantanen and Ari
zona’s Dominic Johnson. Buciars
ki, who cleared a personal
outdoor best of 18 feet 0 1/2 inch
last weekend, finished third at the
NCAA Indoor Championships in
March, behind both Rantanen
and Johnson, although all three
cleared 18- 0 1/2.
Gregg Bleakney, who jumped a
season best of 53-0 1/2 in the Pep
si meet, will be going after his
fourth straight victory in the triple
jump.
Damian Olson will look to snap
out of a two-week slump in the
high jump when he goes up
against an all-star field.
Another Duck expected to
make some noise is Jody Morti
more, who will be going after an
NCAA provisional qualifying
mark in the long jump after clear
ing 25 feet twice this season.
Women: Fisk, Sweitzer will not make trip to Iowa
NICK MEDLEY/Emerald
Aisha Wallace (144) and Katie Crabb (105) will both compete for
Oregon at the Drake Relays.
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Going head-to-head with Davis
on the anchor leg will be the
Wolverines’ Katie McGregor, the
NCAA indoor 3,000-meter cham
pion and the anchor on Michi
gan’s winning distance medley.
Davis and McGregor met in high
school at the National Junior
Elite Camp, at which Heinonen
was a coach, and the two runners
have maintained a friendship
electronically over the last three
years.
“We’re really good friends and
we exchange e-mail a couple
times a week,” Davis said. “I
went to South Africa my fresh
man year for the World Cross
Country Championships and she
was my teammate.”
Davis will also compete for the
individual title at 1,500 meters,
as will Crabb in the Special Invi
tational 800 meters. Both of those
races will be run on Saturday.
“This is an important step for
us because at the Pac-10 meet
they have to run two days in a
row," Heinonen said. “They
don’t get that opportunity any
where else.”
Oregon runners will also ap
pear in the 4xl00-meter relay on
Friday, which is also when Tish
Henes competes in the 400-meter
hurdles.
On Saturday, Henes, Suther
land and Commissiong will join
Aisha Wallace for a sprint med
ley. Commissiong and Wallace
will each run 200 meters, Henes
will take one lap around the
track and Sutherland will close
with her second 800-meter leg in
two days.
Off the track, those women en
tered in the field events will
compete for individual titles.
The benefits of competing in
meets like the Drake Relays are
two-fold, according to Heinonen.
“Runners love relays,” the
coach said. “And individually,
it’s a chance to meet athletes they
otherwise would never see dur
ing the season and meet the chal
lenge of traveling.”
Heinonen also has 23 women
tentatively scheduled to travel to
Western Oregon on Saturday for
a meet that will feature lesser
competition, but competition
nonetheless.
Two notables not making the
trip to Iowa are throwers Heidi
Fisk and Valerie Sweitzer.
Heinonen cited midterm exams
as one reason for keeping athletes
in the state of Oregon this week
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