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Men’s relay competes at qualifiers
me runners nope to
clinch a spot at the
NCAA Championships
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
In an attempt to improve its
ninth place national standing, the
Oregon men’s track distance med
ley relay team will compete today
at the NCAA Track and Field
Qualifying meet in Ames, Iowa.
The Ducks have made one
change since posting their season
best time of 9 minutes, 46.31 sec
onds at the Cyclone Classic at
Ames on Feb. 5.
Junior Steve Fein will shift to
the anchor position, while Greg
James will run the opening 1,200
meter leg, Nat Johnson will run the
400-meter portion and Richard
Gervin will run the 800 before
passing the baton to Fein for the
remaining 1,600 meters.
we re just trying to put togeth
er a good enough team to quali fy, ”
Fein said. “I think we have an ex
cellent shot at qualifying. Every
one is an NCAA-caliber athlete,
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the top teams in
the country.”
Some of the
Ducks’ stiffest
competition in
the relay will be
a foursome from
Drake, which finished in second
place (9:42.28) ahead of the Ducks
at the Cyclone Classic.
Fein has already posted an au
tomatic qualifying time of 7:55.56
for the indoor 3,000, which ranks
him sixth nationally and third
among American collegians.
Also making an appearance at
the Lied Track and Recreation
Center in Ames will be freshman
Ross Krempley, juniors Howard
Moore and Laird Prosser and se
mor Ross Dammann.
Prosser and Dammann will
compete in the mile.
Moore leads the team in the 400
and will look to improve his time
of 48:19. Ross, who won the 800 at
Ames on Feb. 5 with a season-best
time of 1:51.67, will try to improve
that time.
“The primary focus of this meet
will be on the distance relay,” Ore
gon head coach Martin Smith
said. “Clearly, for us to protect our
spot or move up we need to do bet
ter than we’ve ever done before. ”
While the distance relay will be
Oregon’s main focus, the other
runners will focus less on qualify
ing and more on improving their
racing experience against some of
the best colleges, Smith said.
The NCAA Indoor Champi
onships are scheduled for March
5-6 at the RCA Dome in Indi
anapolis.
Schilling, McRae slowed by injuries
Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood also suffers,
experiencing a respiratory infection
The Associated Press
When it comes to bizarre baseball injuries, add Curt
Schilling and Brian McRae to the list.
Schilling was slowed by back spasms Thursday.
And the Philadelphia Phillies say the problem was
caused by one of the favorite spring training pastimes
— doing nothing.
“They stand around a lot,” Phillies manager Terry
Francona said at Clearwater, Fla. "I even told them
they’d be standing around a lot. You get stiff when
you do that.”
Schilling does not expect to miss his regular turn to
throw Friday.
“I thought it would kind of heat up and get loose,
but it never did,” he said. “Maybe we should check
my mattress. Maybe that’s the culprit. ”
McRae missed part of the New York Mets’ first full
workout because of an odd occurrence.
“He broke a tooth when he was running,” manager
Bobby Valentine said. ‘It was cracked and sensitive,
but it didn’t go into the root.”
Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, meanwhile,
went home early from the hospital after being slowed
by an upper respiratory infection. He is scheduled to
return to camp in Mesa, Ariz., Friday.
Team physician Dr. John Marquardt said the NL
Rookie of the Year will continue to take medication
and will work on his conditioning slowly. The 21
year-old right-hander hasn’t participated in spring
training since Sunday.
“It’ll probably be a week to 10 days before he is op
erating on all cylinders,” Marquardt said. “He’s had
an unlucky spring in that he’s had three sort of dis
tinct illnesses.”
Neither Marquardt nor Cubs general manager Ed
Lynch could predict if Wood would be ready for the
season opener April 6.
“That’s more than a month, so he may well come
along nicely. It’s hard to say,” Marquardt said.
Sports Brief
Another weekend trip
for Oregon softball
Willie Nelson’s signature hit
“On the Road Again” would be a
suitable theme song for the Ore
gon softball team so far this sea
son — and it will continue to be
so until the Ducks’ home opener
March 13.
Entering the third weekend of
r
its season, No. 25 Oregon (6-4
overall) plays a doubleheader at
Loyola Marymount today before it
plays four games Saturday and
Sunday at Cal State Northridge in
the Matador Invitational.
The Ducks begin game No. 1
against the Lions (9-8 overall) to
day at 1 p.m.
Loyola Marymount is 0-3
against Pacific-10 Conference
teams, dropping a pair to Oregon
State — both by 4-0 scores — and
losing to California, 10-2.
Saturday, Oregon meets Cal
State Northridge at 10 a.m. and
San Diego State at 2 p.m.
The Ducks battle the same two
teams Sunday, but in reverse or
der. Oregon will play San Diego
State at 10 a.m. and Cal State
Northridge at noon.
Bring your Duck Basketball ticket to
Track Town on game day and get
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1809 Franklin Blvd.
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Offer good with any Duck athletic event.