Oregon golf
places 10th
Oregon, needing to
finish 11th or better
overall fora bid in
the NCAA
Championships,
finished 10th in the
first round tying with
San Jose State.
Tulsa, Arizona and
Standford took first,
second and third
place. Page 13
Scoreboard
Track and Field Event
Schedule
(tentative)
Oregon Twilight
Saturday, May 13,
2000
5:30 p.m.
Hammer (Women fol
lowed by Men)
5:45
Shot Put (W followed by
M)
5:45
Javelin (W)
6:10
400H (W)
6:15
High Jump (M followed
by W)
6:15
800m (M)
6:20
100m (W)
Middle School Mile (girls)
6:30
Discus(M followed by W)
6:30
Pole Vault (M and W)
6:30
Long Jump (W) followed
by Triple Jump (W)
6:35
Middle School Mile (boys)
6:45
400m (W)
6:55
3000m Steeplechase (M)
7:05
Oregon Track Club Ser
vice Pin Presentation
7:15
100H (W)
7:25
1500m (W)
7:35
800m (W)
7:40
5000m (W)
8:00
Bill McChesneyJr.
Memorial Twilight Mile
(M)
8:10
Seniors’ Last Lap
Best Bet
NBA Playoffs, Los Angeles
7:30 p.m., TNT
Friday
May 12,2000
Volume 101, Issuel 51
Emerald
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Scott Peszneckef'Emerald
Santiago Lorenzo begins the Pac-10 Championships Saturday at noon in the 100 hurdles.
Sophomore
Santiago
Lorenzo is
motivated to
improve an
already steep
learning curve
atthePac-10
Decathlon
Championships
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
To say that Santiago Loren
zo’s talent is one-in-a-million
is quite the understatement.
Try one in 11 million.
The decathlete standout on
the Oregon men’s track and
field team came to college
from the densely populated
city of Buenos Aires, Argenti
na in 1998 and is one of the
Ducks’ three NCAA quali
fiers this season.
His resume included a sec
ond-place finish at the 1997
Junior Pan-American Games,
the 1998 South American
Championship title, his
country’s national decathlon
record and, on top of that,
plenty of room for improve
ment.
While the rest of the Ducks
compete in the Oregon Twi
light this Saturday starting at
5:30 p.m., Lorenzo — along
with teammates Billy Pappas
and Doug Sells — will work
his 10-event magic in the
two-day Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships for
combination events. Pac-10
action begins at noon Satur
day, and Sunday’s events
Turn to Santiago, page 14
Women want
Pac-10 marks
at Twilight
■Jenny Kenyon hopes for success at her Pac
10s, while her teammates hope for qualifying
standards at the last regular season meet
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
It’s Pacific-10 Conference
Championship time for one
Duck.
Jenny Kenyon, Oregon’s only
heptathlete, is hoping for some
semblance of decent weather as
she strives for at least 5,000
points and a conference title
over the course of seven events
beginning with the 100-meter
hurdles at noon on Saturday
and ending with the 800 meters
at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
It’ll be Kenyon’s second taste
of the conference heptathlon
championship. Last season, the
sophomore from Newbury Park,
Calif., totaled 4,432 points and
finished sixth. This time, Keny
on enters competition with a ca
reer-best of 4,793, third-best in
the Pac-10 this season.
“ She’s going to have her work
cut out for her, ” head coach Tom
Heinonen said. “But she had a
great meet last Sunday at Irvine,
so if we get any kind of weather,
she’ll have a great chance to put
a [personal record] on the
board.”
True, at the Steve Scott Invi
tational last weekend, Kenyon
PR’d in the long jump (18 feet 9
3/4 inches) and the 100 hurdles
(14.82 seconds).
And furthering Kenyon’s
chances this weekend is the fact
that none of last year’s top-five
finishers will be competing this
weekend.
“Last year, I kind of felt like it
was just more of an experience
that I was going to compete, but I
didn’t know what to expect,”
said Kenyon, also a sophomore
in heptathlon time.
“Now I know what to expect,
and I’m ready.”
As are the Ducks core of un
derclassmen.
It was hard for anyone to
Turn to Track, page 17
it Our
freshmen
have made
lots of
progress, and
we’ve needed
them to.
Many of
them are the
backbone of
our team for
many years
to come, yy
Tom Heinonen
head coach
UO makes final impression on the road
■ No.19 Oregon knows
this weekend is its last
chance to impress the
selection committee
By Matt O'Neill
Oregon Daily Emerald
Three games.
That’s all there are before
the No. 19 Oregon softball
team leaves its fate in the
hands of the NCAA selec
tion committee.
And those games will be
no easy task, as the Ducks
(34-24 overall, 6-12 Pacific
10 Conference) travel to
Seattle and Los Angeles to
take on the No. 1 Huskies
(54-6,14-3) today at 2 p.m.
and No. 3 Bruins (36-10-1,
11-6) on Saturday in a dou
ble header.
Last time Oregon faced
these teams, the Ducks got
swept. But, that is all in the
past, according to senior Jill
Robinson. All the team can
do now is focus on this
weekend and not worry
about the past or the future.
“These games are really
important,” Robinson said.
“Getting a win or two can
only help us out in impress
ing the committee.”
Last season, the Ducks
were the last team called.
Second baseman Andre
Gustafson, for one, does not
want to got through that
feeling
again.
“I was
a 1 1
stressed
out and
nerv
ous,”
Gustafson said. “I want to
be relaxed and have fun, so
a couple of wins will help
us a lot.”
The Ducks are coming
into this weekend’s play on
a winning note, having
beaten No. 9 California, 4-0
Sunday. That win ended a
four-game losing streak and
kept Oregon one game
ahead of the Bears and out
of the Pac-10 cellar.
“I wished we played that
well on Saturday [when the
Ducks lost 4-0],” Robinson
said. Against Washington
and UCLA, “we’ll need to
come out like we did on
Sunday.”
Washington is coming
into the weekend riding
high, having defeated the
Bruins, 4-0.
Oregon is hoping to con
Turn to Softball, page 15
Nobody
expects us to
win. We have
everything to
gain and
nothing to
lose. These
are our
games to win.
Jill Robinson
#23, senior