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Eugene & u of 0 IB 484 PAPA BQ (7272) Serving Springfield, Duck's Village, Chase Village and University Commons 746-PAPA (7272) y/e*/ f&pje* y/e#/fan* y^e*/ txfejipice. Don't miss out. Work for your college paper. For more information on how to freelance for the Oregon Daily Emerald call 346-5511. Local Olympians head to Sydney ■Tracktown USA is sending six medalist hopefuls to the 102nd Olympiad in Australia By Robbie McCallum for the Emerald Eugene will be well-represented in next month’s Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Six former Ducks and Eugene residents have qualified for the Olympics in the track and field portion of the inter national competition. Hammer thrower Lance Deal is the only Oregonian in this year’s Olympics who owns a medal. Deal was the silver medalist in the ham mer at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. This year, Deal is making no pre dictions about a medal. “My goal for Sydney is very sim ple,’’ Deal said in an earlier inter view with the Emerald. “It’s to throw a personal record in the final. That means taking care of the technical aspects of the throw. Distance takes care of it self.” Deal's personal best is 270 feet, 11 inches, which is also the Ameri can record. The four-time Olympian won this year’s Pre fontaine Classic with a throw of 262-9, his best throw this year. The Olympics will be Deal’s last com petition ever. Former Duck Nick Rogers sur prised the crowd at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Sacramento last month with his third place finish in the 5,000 meters. Coming into the competition as a dark horse at-best, the 22-year old Rogers tucked in behind fa vorite Bob Kennedy for most of the race before taking the lead for the final two laps. Rogers was out kicked by winner Adam Goucher and Stanford’s Brad Hauser with 200 meters to go. Marla Runyan provided the feel good story of this year’s Olympic Trials with her third place finish in the 1,500. Runyan had been ham pered by a knee injury all season and considered scratching from the race beforehand, but still man aged to qualify in a time of 4:06.4. The former heptathlete finished behind four-time Olympian Regi na Jacobs (4:01.1) and former Eu gene resident Suzy Favor Hamil ton (4:02.1). Runyan is the first member of the Olympic team who is legally blind. She suffers from a condition called Stargardt’s disease, a macu lar degeneration syndrome that leaves her with 20/200 vision. The third former Duck who will compete in Sydney is heptathlete Kelly Blair-LaBounty. She finished third in the seven-event competi tion despite winning only one event. Blair-LaBounty tied for first in the long jump and placed third in the 800 and javelin throw and tal lied 6,180 points, 163 points be hind winner DeeDee Nathan. Former Oregon runner Karl - Keska qualified for the Olympics on Great Britain’s team. The former Pacific-10 cross country champion placed third in the 10,000 in the British Trials in July. Keska is ranked 23th in the world among Olympians with a personal best 28:00.5. The track and field portion of the Olympic Games takes place from Sept. 22 through Oct. 1. Pac-10 continued from page 13A biggest question mark that the Tro jans have is their running game. Chad Morton is gone, which leaves three candidates to fill his hole. Most likely, the job will belong to sopho more Sultan McCullough, whose brother Saladin was a running back at Oregon just a few years back. Powerful junior Malaefou MacKenzie will also get his fair share of carries, with true freshman Chris Howard probably being the best true running back on the team. “Sultan is a real blazer and cre ates problems when he gets through a hole or around the comer,” Hack ed said. “We'll utilize all of our tail backs this season. I really like our mixture of power and speed.” Funny how Hackett adores his running backs, but during this past off-season he expended a lot of ef fort in trying to recruit tailback Maurice Morris, the top junior-col lege prospect in the nation. Morris declined the Trojans, and chose instead to go up north to play for the Ducks, who with Morris on the roster, should be a contender for the conference title. Oregon is spearheaded by its two-headed quarterback monster in Harrington and A.J. Feeley, who combined for more than 3,000 yards passing last year. Another Pac-10 team that should contend is UCLA , which is anxious to get on the field and erase memo ries of last season’s disastrous 4-7 record. The only problem is that there is still no clear cut starting quarter back for the Bruins. Sophomore Cory Paus was not able to partici pate in the spring while he recov ered from offseason shoulder sur gery, but he still seems to have the inside track at the starting gig over 6-foot-4 Ryan McMann, who got about 75 percent of the snaps dur ing spring drills. Also, third-string QB Scott McEwan could provide competition at that position. But the need for a Cade Mc Nown-type gun slinger isn’t as nec essary due to the fact that running back DeShaun Foster heads the backfield. Foster will be running behind a monstrous offensive line that should provide him with enough holes to get back the form that he had in 1998 when he was the team’s leading rusher as a fresh man. He missed most of last season due to an ankle injury. The Bruins defense should hold up well and it is likely that the Bru ins will be the most improved team in the league, but whether that will be good enough to earn a bowl bid remains to be seen. The wild card team is Oregon State, which has been re-energized by second-year coach Dennis Erickson. Last season, Erickson led the Beavers to a 7-5 season, which was — get this — their first winning sea son since 1970. It was good enough to earn them 942-8730 484-1927 GOLF 9 HOLES $10 Students Only. Must show ID. (Monday - Friday) an invite to the Oahu Bowl, which marked their first bowl berth since 1964. But now Erickson must prove that last season was no fluke, and he showed he’s committed to the city of Corvallis when he signed a new five-year guaranteed contract for more than $480,000 a year. In order for the Beavers to stay above the .500 mark for a second straight year, quarterback Jonathan Smith must keep improving and learn to control his touch and accu racy. “He is the leader of this offense and I look for him to have a great fall,” Erickson said. “He worked ex tremely hard in the winter and in the spring.” Other concerns for Oregon State are the kicking game and the ability of the defensive line to rush the passer, but Erickson says that all problems will be resolved. “This football team has a chance to be as good as we were a year ago, it just depends on how we develop.” The rest of the five Pac-10 teams — Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, California and Washington State — can’t be overlooked as the unpre dictability of the conference will most likely turn a few heads as the season progresses. But as for the conference as a whole, it is looking to come out smoking against non-conference foes such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Alabama, Texas and Penn State. 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