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Kevin Calame Emerald Sprinters Lucretia Larkin (123) and Shannae McNairy (130) help Oregon keep momentum with a two-three finish in the hurdles. Tracksters continued from page 11 tions about the dual’s outcome be fore the meet. Saturday morning’s edition of The Register-Guard broke down the meet event-by-event, ultimately picking the Ducks to lose, 96-67. “We surprised a few people today, didn’t we?” Smith said. “I thought the kids did a tremendous job. ” Smith placed several of his top athletes in multiple events to keep within striking distance. Howard Moore competed in four events in cluding the final relay, despite limp ing noticeably on an injured heal. Even Steve Fein competed, finish ing a close second in the 1,500 me ters with a time of 3:49.57. The race was Fein’s first competition since the Oregon Preview last month. “I’m very pleased that we made it a competitive competition,” Smith said. “My hope would be that the athletes gain confidence from this, grow from this, and continue to work hard and continue to make improvements and develop as I think we did again this week. “In the end, we fell short. You can’t blame the mile relay. We had to do other placements in order to position ourselves to do a better job from a team perspective, and that left us a little short in the end. ” Oregon achieved its goal of keep ing things close by performing well in the field events. The trio of Colin McArthur, Nat Johnson and Fuluso Akinradewo fulfilled that goal, claiming the first three finishes in the long jump and triple jump. McArthur set a lifetime best of 24 feet, 1/4 inches to win the long jump, and he placed third in the triple jump. “I knew I was ready to jump that far,” McArthur said. “It was a little frustrating because we had a head wind most of the day, but I got a little bit lucky on that jump because the wind died and I had some dead air. ” The Ducks also received huge lifts on the track from Santiago Lorenzo and Ross Krempley, who recorded the most thrilling victo ries of the meet. Lorenzo won the 400 hurdles in a photo-finish time 4 of 52.82 seconds, just .01 seconds ahead of Washington’s Ben Meyer. Krempley took the 800 in similar 1 fashion with a time of 1:56.08, winning by a .05-second margin. Women continued from page 11 gon athletes to compete in multi ple events, running four races, in cluding the 400-meter dash, in which she finished second in a seasonal best time of 56.18.Senior Hilary Holly accounted for 13 of the Ducks’ points, winning the long jump (18-05.25), the triple jump (38-02.75) and running the second leg of the 4x100 relay. Middle distance star Katie Crabb doubled as well. She won the 800 (2:12.47) and then, about a 1/2 hour later, got edged in her specialty, the 1,500 (4:31.05.) “My coach told me, ‘You can get third and we’ll still win,’ so there was no pressure. It was more like pracitce,” Crabb said immediately after the 1,500, in which her sec ond-place finish was enough to fi nalize the win. “We wanted to keep the winning streak going, it was like, ‘We can’t lose on our track.’ I’m really excited for the team, everyone worked so hard.” Freshmen Lucretia Larkin and Heather Murtaugh were among the busiest Ducks, competing in three events each. Larkin’s second-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles (14.89) early in the running events kept momentum with the Ducks. And, no surprise here, Maureen Morrison and Mary Etter each had full, productive outings. With a fling of 186 feet and 6 inches, “Mo” re-set the Oregon record in the hammer throw de spite not having been able to prac tice much the previous week due to illness in her family. The senior also came in second in the discus (159-0), behind Etter, a freshman who bounced back from a hum bling Mt. San Antonio College Re lays with a throw Of 162-09. And, of course, Karis Howell and Niki Reed were Saturday’s single event stars. Pole vaulter Niki Reed won her event by clearing the NCAA auto matic standard for the first time outdoors with a vault of 13-11/2. “I hoped that I’d jump the auto matic for NC’s,” the sophomore said. “I was hoing that I’d get a PR too, but, it doesn’t happen every time. ” Howell recorded the Ducks first points with a first place finish in the javelin (143-03). “They got after it today,” said head coach Tom Heinonen about his young team. “I was really ~7t often. „ day. I was really proud or them. Being able to com plete when its important is valuable; its a good step TomHeinonen )) head coach proud of them. Being able to com pete when it’s important is valu able; it’s a good step.” Take the Test [It's free, and you don't have to study!] Practicing safer sex includes knowing your HIV status.'For a limited time during spring term 2000, free HIV testing will be available to current University of Oregon students at the University Health Center. 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