- Men’s
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tempt at 7-2 1/4.
Cool temperatures and wind also
had its effect on the highlighted
event of the meet — The Bill McCh
esney Mile. Portland native Mike
Miller won the annual event in
3:57.1, but was the only runner to
break the four-minute barrier. Five
runners, including former Duck
Steve Fein, accomplished that feat
a year ago in better conditions.
“It was a blast,” Miller said. “The
fans are awesome. Last year I broke
four here and it was great. It always
feels like my home track here.”
Olympian Jason Pyrah was un
able to repeat as McChesney
Champion as he faded to sixth in
a time of 4:06.2.Inching closer to
an NCAA provisional mark in the
100-meters was Oregon sopho
more Samie Parker. The football
player was out-leaned in the
sprint but still ran a personal best
** 10.40 seconds, just 16-hundredths
of a second off a provisional mark.
Parker’s time is the sixth fastest
100 in school history, however,
the mark will not go into the
record books because it was wind
aided.
Falling short of a last chance
mark was freshman Trevor Woods.
The NCAA provisional qualifier in
the pole vault missed three straight
attempts at 16-8 3/4, well short of
the NCAA automatic mark of 18-2
1/2.
Former All-American Duck Pi
ptr Buciarski returned to the Hay
ward Field vault runway to win
with a leap of 17-9 1/4.
The only other Duck to capture
a win was junior John Bello in the
discus. The former football player
won the discus with a toss of 177
9, an hour after finishing second
in the shot put in 58-4 1/2.
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R. Ashley Smith Emerald
Mike Miller was the only runner to break the four-minute barrier in the Bill McChesney
Mile. The Portland native won with a time of 3:57.
Oregon’s only other personal
best came from sophomore Adam
Kriz in the discus. The Toledo naJ
tive placed second in a Pac-10
qualifying length of 194-4.
Four Ducks competed in the 17
runner 1,500-meter race. True
freshman Eric Logsdon paced Ore
gon with a fifth-place finish in
3:57, followed by Ryan Andrusin
seventh, senior Lincoln Nehring
in ninth and freshman Noel Paul
son in 11th.
The Ducks travel to Berkeley,
Calif., next Saturday and Sunday
for the Pac-10 Championships.
Women’s
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Twilight was Oregon freshman
Sarah Malone, who continued
her rise to national prominence
in the javelin throw. Malone
won the event Saturday with a
throw of 174 feet, which could
have put her first on the nation
al collegiate list, depending on
the rest of the weekend’s action.
The throw beat the nation’s pre
vious best of 173-9, set by
Southern California’s Inga Stasi
ulionyte last weekend.
“I was surprised this hap
pened today,” Malone said.
“Things are just coming togeth
er right now.”
The throw broke Malone’s old
school record of 169-3, which
she set at the Oregon Invitation
al two weeks ago. It also moved
Malone closer to the Oregon
record with the old implement,
Lynda Hughes’ mark of 202-3
from 1982. Malone said she’s
now seriously considering the
Pacific-10 Conference title in
the event.
“A national championship
would be huge, but Pac-10 is
what I’m shooting for,” Malone
said. “I’m just going to give it
all I’ve got, and hopefully
things will come together at that
meet.”
Malone was one of nine
Ducks to score season bests Sat
urday. Sprinters Lucretia Larkin
and Olivia Diane-Callier teamed
up to run season bests in the 400
hurdles, and took first and sec
ond in that event. Freshman Jill
Hoxmeier notched season bests
in the discus and hammer
throw.
Also scoring season bests in
their events were Alicia Snyder
Carlson in the 800, Catherine
Tenedios in the high jump,
Jamie Burk in the discus and
Sara Dinsmore in the javelin.
As a team, the Ducks failed to
qualify any new athletes for the
Pac-10 meet to join the 19 al
ready qualified athletes.
Besides the 5,000, two other
races featured post-collegiate
talent Saturday. In the 1,500,
former Oregon standout Marie
Davis was edged by Nathalie
Cote and Vicky Lynch-Pounds,
two Canadian stars who
crossed the line only .16 sec
onds apart. Davis finished just
over three seconds behind the
top two.
In the women’s steeplechase,
Janet Tujillo and former Duck
Lisa Karnopp-Nye squared off
and finished only .5 seconds
apart. Tujillo won with a time of
10:09.7.
Despite all the serious compe
titions Saturday, the Twilight
featured some fun events, too.
Area middle school students got
a chance to compete in the mid
dle school mile. The men’s race
was marred by a false start as
many of the middle schoolers
tripped over each other, but was
quickly re-started and ran suc
cessfully. Also, the Oregon
Coaches recognized experienced
Hayward Field volunteers with
a service pin presentation.
The evening was capped with
the “seniors’ last lap,” where
this year’s graduating Ducks
took one last victory lap around
Hayward Field. Many of the
Ducks in that last lap will return
for the NCAA Championships
in Eugene in three weeks.
Oregon will now travel to
Berkeley, Calif., for the Pac-10
Championships, which will
take place Saturday and Sun
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