Kevin Calame Emerald
Sprinters Lucretia Larkin (123) and Shannae McNairy (130) help Oregon keep momentum with a two-three finish in the hurdles.
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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.
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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
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day. I was really proud or
them. Being able to com
plete when its important
is valuable; its a good
step
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proud of them. Being able to com
pete when it’s important is valu
able; it’s a good step.”
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