Ducks’ field stars shine at Mt. SAC, Pomona
■ Women’s track faces the
best in California, and some
Ducks come out on top
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Facing fields of up to 30 competi
tors at the Mt. San Antonio College
Relays this weekend, the Oregon
women’s track and field team made
its presence felt in California.
Sophomore Mary Etter took on a
field of 28 athletes Saturday at Mt.
SAC and defeated all 28. Etter threw
the discus almost 176 feet, two feet
short of an NCAA automatic dis
tance.
Charyl Weingarten made some
noise in the javelin throw, tossing
the implement 157 feet to finish sec
ond at Mt. SAC Saturday. The mark,
a personal record by almost 10 feet,
put Weingarten on the NCAA Pro
visional list for the first time.
Junior Niki Reed, third on the na
tional list of pole vaulters, finished
fifth at Mt. SAC with a vault of 13 feet.
Friday, sophomore Amanda
Brown shone at Mt. SAC, winning
the long jump with a leap of 18-10
3/4. Brown beat 13 other athletes for
first.
Also on Friday, junior Jenny Keny
on and freshman Ann Sullivan both
scored personal bests in the Califor
nia Invitational Heptathlon at Azusa
Pacific University. Kenyon finished
fourth, while Sullivan ended 11th in
the 27-athlete field.
“Both the heptathletes made ma
jor steps today,” Oregon head coach
Tom Heinonen said.
Decathlete Billy Pappas, who had
been originally slated as the only
men’s competitor for Oregon,
pulled out of the event because of a
small injury.
Although no results for Sunday’s -
action were available, the Ducks
scored high marks Friday and Sat
urday.
Sophomore Jenny Brogdon and
freshman Rachael Kiiz competed in
both the Mt. SAC Relays and the
Pomona-Pitzer Invitational. The pair
also managed to jump the same
height each day. Brogdon and Kriz
cleared 5-5 Friday at Pomona-Pitzer,
then both jumped 5-41/4 against bet
ter competition Saturday at Mt. SAC.
Many other Duck athletes compet
ed at Pomona-Pitzer. Senior Maureen
Morrison improved on her perform
ance at the Washington Dual Meet a
week ago by throwing the hammer
182-1. Sophomore Jordan McDaniels
became the fifth Oregon thrower to
qualify for the Pac-10 meet by tossing
the hammer 170-7.
Two Davises had big weekends
in California. Janette Davis, a soph
omore middle distance runner, fin
ished ninth in the 400 at Pomona,
while junior Cameo Davis finished
seventh in the 400 hurdles and
competed in the 100 hurdles.
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Golfers’ postseason
kicks off in Arizona
■The women golfers will be
the first spring sports team to
start the postseason this week
at the Pac-10 Championships
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
No more quizzes for the Oregon
women’s golf team. Midterms are
over.
It’s finals time.
The Ducks travel to Tempe, Ariz.,
this week for the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships, starting to
day at the Karsten Golf Course. The
tournament will be the first postsea
son test for Oregon and could deter
mine where the team will end up
for the NCAA Regional tournament
in two weeks.
“It’s our first final exam of the
postseason,” Oregon head coach
Shannon Rouillard said. “It doesn’t
mean everything, but it does mean
something.”
That “something” is bragging
rights in the Pac-10. One of the
toughest golf conferences in the
country, the Pac-10 boasts seven of
the nation’s top 50 teams, according
to the most recent MasterCard Col
legiate Golf Rankings.
The Ducks will jump on the back
of star Jerilyn White and try to ride
her to a strong showing at the Pac
10s. White, ranked 35th in the coun
try, recently won her first individual
tournament title at the Peg Barnard
Collegiate last weekend. That per
formance led the Ducks to fifth place,
their best finish of the season.
White said the Peg Barnard will
give her a boost in contending for
the Pac-10 crown.
“It’s giving me a lot of confidence
going into Pac-lOs,” White said.
“But I’m really trying hard to not
put too many expectations on it. ”
White will have to play better than
some of the nation’s best golfers if she
wants to win the individual title in
Tempe. The field includes top
ranked Lorena Ochoa of Arizona, No.
2 Candie Kung of Southern Califor
nia, No. 9 Stephanie Keever of Stan
ford and No. 10 Natalie Gulbis of Ari
zona, along with 17 more top-100
competitors. Based solely on rank
ings, White would finish ninth indi
vidually.
Of course, White knows all about
her competition.
“I could shoot a 69 every day and
not win it,” White said. “It would be
awesome to do and great if I won,
but there’s such great competition
in the Pac-10, who knows what
would win it.”
Other probable starters for Ore
gon include junior Kathy Cho, sen
ior Dawn Berry, freshman Lacy Er
ickson and sophomore Megan
Heckeroth.
Cho is the only golfer besides
White to play in every tournament
this season, and she holds the
team’s second-best stroke average.
Berry has placed at the Pac-lOs
twice, finishing 47th her sopho
more season and 35th last year.
Rouillard said her team needs to
improve its consistency to finish
strong at the Pac-lOs.
“We just need to look at this tour
nament as another step up for us,”
Rouillard said.
The Pac-10 teams will play three
18-hole rounds over three days,
starting today and concluding
Wednesday.
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