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Triathlete: Running is his weak event
■ Continued from Page 11
ishing first by more than a minute
and completing his recovery. The
victory capped off a huge Oregon
Club Sports triathlon team perfor
mance, where the Ducks placed
fourth out of 33 collegiate teams.
All six men and women points
scorers finished in the top 20.
One could say the triathlon team
has progressed almost as fast as
Saraceno. Team coordinator Josiah
Jones, who finished 19th at the na
tional meet, formed the club in
1994. The fledgling core of 10 to 15
triathletes has slowly grown to
over 30 racers. Jones said he hopes
to bring a triathlon, composed of a
mile swim, 25-mile bike ride and
six-mile run, to campus before he
graduates in order to maintain in
terest in the club.
The sport is growing regardless
of Jones’ efforts. The Sydney,
Australia Olympics will welcome
the triathlon as a medal event for
the first time in 2000.
While the 24-year-old Saraceno
dreams of the Olympics, his eye is
more keenly focused on the Au
gust Triathlon World Champi
onships in Switzerland. His road
to the Alps leads through the July
U.S. Amateur Triathlon Champi
onships in Florida, where he must
qualify in the top-10 of the 20-24
age group, something he has prac
tically already done by winning
the national championship.
"I want to do well at worlds,”
Saraceno says, seeming to display
an earned arrogance.
It wouldn’t be the first time he
qualified for the world champi
onships, however. As an 18-year
old, he earned a spot on the under
19 junior national team in 1992,
competing in Toronto, Canada, but
performing poorly. The three
event workouts proved too much
at a time, burning out Saraceno’s
enthusiasm for the sport.
Not to say he stopped working
out cold turkey. He instead fo
cused on bicycle racing, which he
continued until the armored truck
accident.
Saraceno is able to joke about
the accident now. It seems he has
made a career out of gory bicycle
wrecks.
The automobiles haven’t been
kind to Saraceno. In 1985, a 3/4
ton pickup turned into the 11
year-old bicyclist, but he bounced
back. A Portland General Electric
truck crossed paths with Saraceno
in 1993, sending him five feet
over the hood with his bike in
tow. Lance Deal, the 1996
Olympic silver medalist in the
hammer throw, even managed to
plow his convertible into Sara
ceno’s bicycle in Eugene. The
Portland accident seemed like an
inevitable consequence of riding
by 1995.
“Makes you want to ride a bike,
doesn’t it?” he sarcastically says.
But all that experience paid off at
last weekend’s national champi
onships. Coming out of the water
between 15th and 20th place, Sara
ceno pushed his body to the limit in
the 25-mile bike section, catching
up to the lead pack by.the halfway
mark. Constantly gauging his
body’s performance, he followed
the lead of another cyclist and
broke away from the lead group.
He knew running was his
weakest link, going in to the last
portion of the triathlon. Three es
tablished runners paced on his
heels. But keeping his pace, he
saw the leader after three miles.
Using a hill to his strength, he
passed the leader and cruised in
for the victory, almost a minute
ahead of the next finisher. He had
always imagined crossing the fin
ish line by himself, but he could
hardly believe he had won.
From the hospital bed to the
medal celebration in only three
years, Saraceno has come far. It
just might take a tank to knock
him out of competition next time.
NCAAs: Iowa’s strength is its team unity
■ Continued from Page 11
of the Hawkeyes’ 55 games have been decided by one
run. Iowa has won 14 of those and is 6-2 in games de
cided by two runs.
With so much dissimilarity, Oregon head coach
Rick Gamez said it is important for the Ducks (38-29,
10-18) to play sound defense and regain some of the
confidence they lost in the season-ending sweeps by
California and Stanford.
“(Iowa] is the type of team that scraps a lot of runs
and uses the bunt very well,” Gamez said. “They are
aggressive, but I think their strength is in their team
unity. They are not over powering offensively or de
fensively, they just don’t make many mistakes.”
The key for Oregon will be to get runs on the board
early. Confidence will be a big factor, shortstop Jill
Robinson said.
“We have a lot of good hitters up and down our
lineup," Robinson said. “We need to remember to
take good cuts all of the time. We won’t be thinking
about how we played last weekend. It almost feels
like we’re starting over, like we’re starting fresh.”
A fresh start is something the entire team is excited
about.
"We’ve really improved over the course of this
year,” designated hitter Triawn Custer said. “It didn’t
just happen that we made it to the postseason, we
worked hard all season.”
Iowa, which enters the game No. 19 in the USA
Today/NFCA Coaches Poll, will be the Ducks’ 15th
ranked opponent in its last 17 games. For the season,
Oregon is 14-18 against ranked teams, including vic
tories over No. 4 Washington and No. 22 Oregon
State in the last two weeks.
Jennie Cook (20-17) will get the start against the
Hawkeyes and possibly the start on Saturday against
either host Nebraska or Coastal Carolina. The double
-elimination tournament concludes Sunday, with the
winner earning a spot in the eight-team Women’s
College World Series in Oklahoma City on May 21.
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