Men pick up Pac-10 marks at Cardinal Invite
■The men’s track and field
team records three more
Pac-10 marks Friday
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
Chances of earning postseason
marks are growing more scarce by
the week.
And with only two of those
chances left, the
Oregon men’s
track and field
team flew down
to Palo Alto,
Calif., to try its
hand at Stan
ford.
The Ducks played their strong
suits at the Cardinal Invitational
on Friday with a variety of strong
showings, including outdoor per
sonal bests, near personal bests
and seasonal bests.
Oregon also upped the ante in
the Pacific-10 Conference Champi
onships by three chips. Three
Ducks earned qualifying marks for
the event!, which will be held at
Hayward jField on May 20 - 21. The
Pac-10 combination events take
place May 13 -14.
Yet while Oregon’s deck ap
peared stacked at times, its success
only reached so far.
The Ducks upped their number
of Pac-10 qualifying marks to 24,
but recorded no new NCAA quali
fiers.
Teammates Foluso Akinradewo
and Nat Johnson took first and sec
ond place in the triple jump. Their
marks — 49 feet, 1 3/4 inches and
47-7, respectively — were outdoor
personal bests for both athletes.
Johnson’s mark tied the qualify
ing distance for the Pac-10 triple
jump, giving him eligibility for his
second conference event. Howev
er, the senior has yet to win an ex
pected NCAA-qualifying mark this
season.
Sophomore John Bello contin
ued to chase an NCAA-provisional
mark in the shot put, but his throw
of 51-7 fell about two inches short.
Bello won third place in the shot
put, and his throw was an outdoor
personal best. He didn’t have as
much success in the discuss, fin
ishing third with a mark of 173-11.
Sprinter Howard Moore also
searches for his first-ever NCAA
tournament berth. To get the re
quired time of 46.20, Moore would
be required to break his personal
best time of 46.83. The senior fin
ished third at the Cardinal Invita
tional in 47.49.
Freshman sprinter Ricardo Cot
tengim ran his first Pac-10 qualify
ing mark of the season in the 200
meters. He won his race with a
time of 21.43 seconds, followed by
fellow football player Jermaine
Hanspard, who finished fourth in
22.57.
In the distances, sophomore
Adam Bergquist scored his first
Pac-10 qualifying mark in the
5,000 meters with a season-best
time of 14 minutes, 25.21 seconds.
In doing so, Bergquist beat his old
season-best by about 24 1/2 sec
onds.
Ross Krempley, who endured
electrifying finishes in the 800 at
the Oregon-Washington Dual two
weeks ago and the Oregon Invita
tional last weekend, shifted and
ran the 400. The sophomore fin
ished fourth in the race and second
among collegians behind Moore
with a time of 48.94.
Perhaps the biggest heartbreak
of the meet was Todd Humcke
barely missing a Pac-10 berth in
the 1,500. Humcke finished a low
27th of 33 finishers in three heats,
but his time of 3:50.83 was less
than a second away from the Pac
10 qualifying time of 3:50.83.
With distance runner Steve Fein
still recovering from training-relat
ed problems, Oregon’s trump card
proved to be Jason Boness, one of
the Ducks’ three NCAA qualifiers.
Boness upped his season best in
the high jump by clearing 7-3 on
his second try. Going into the
weekend, Boness was ranked No.
11 in the nation in the high jump
with his prior season best of 7-2
1/2 from the Mt. SAC Relays last
month.
Freshman Terry Ellis raced his
second-fastest time of the season in
the 110 hurdles with a second
place finish in 14.63 seconds.
Sophomore Tim Overfield was the
lone entrant in the 400 hurdles and
finished with a time of 53.51 sec
onds, only a half-second off his
season best.
James March showed promise in
the shot put and discuss. The
freshman set personal bests in both
events, throwing the shot 53-0 and
the discus 156-3.
Another former Duck notched
one of the meet's most impressive
runs. In the 10,000, Nick Rogers
met the Olympic “A” qualifying
standard withhistimeof27:54.81,
ranking fourth overall and second
among Americans.
Nike Irishmen Mark Carroll.won
the contest (27:46.82), ahead of
Adidas Australia entry Shaun
Creighton (second, 27:49.20) and
Nike's Abdi Abdirahman
(27:54.81).
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Foluso Akinradewo takes first place in the triple jump with a personal best jump.
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