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Adam Jude
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Monday, April 22,2002
Oregon Daily Emerald
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Ducks run offense in final spring scrimmage
■ Despite offensive improvement,
Bellotti is ‘not pleased’ with final
tune-up before the Spring Game
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
The stat lines aren’t spectacular, but
worth noting:
Tailback Onterrio Smith had 38
yards on five carries, including a 31
yard scamper. Backup Allan Amund
son rushed for one touchdown and
87 yards on 13 carries. Ryan Shaw
had 49 yards on nine carries and a
touchdown.
The two main quarterbacks, Jason
Fife and Kellen Clemens, combined
to complete 12-of-30 attempts for 118
yards, with Clemens tossing two
touchdowns.
Again, nothing outrageous, but a far
cry from the first scrimmage, where the
Oregon defense, in green uniforms,
made the offense, in white, their play
toy, allowing just one touchdown and ■
one field goal.
In their second and last scrimmage 1
before the Spring Game, the Ducks |
were finally able to establish some- P
thing offensively as they concluded the i
third week of drills Friday.
“I think our offense woke up a bit 1 o- J
day, and it was nice to see our running
game on track,” Oregon head coai h
Mike Bellotti said. “The offense
showed up as a group for the first time |
this spring.
“Overall, though, I’m not pleased. §
Our defense played great early this |
spring, and maybe as a result they rest- |
ed on their laurels a little (Friday).”
Safety Keith Lewis said he was not- |
ed happy with the defense’s perform- |
ance Friday, when the Green team al- |
lowed four touchdowns and four 1
field goals.
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
Oregon running
back Allan
Amundson
(bottom) is
tackled by safety
Demetrius Spates
in Friday’s
scrimmage.
Amundson tallied
87 yards on 13
carries and one
touchdown.
Harris, McKeever lead Ducks at three meets in Los Angeles
■ MEN: Mican Harris and Billy
Pappas lead a handful of Ducks
who made the trip to California
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Micah Harris ran the 110-meter hur
dles twice on Sunday.
The second time was the charm.
Harris broke his own Oregon school
record with a time of 13.67 seconds in
the Olympic Development section of
the event at the Mt.
San Antonio College
Relays in Walnut,
Calif., on Sunday af
ternoon. The record
came hours after Har
ris won the collegiate
section with a 14.01.
The senior assured himself a second
straight trip to the NCAA Champi
_ onships with the time, which beat his
previous school record — set at last sea
son’s NCAA Championships in Eugene
— by 0.06 seconds.
1 Harris finished second in the elite
race late Sunday afternoon. Mississip
pi’s Antwan Hicks finished first with a
time that was less than 0.06 seconds
faster than Harris’ mark.
Another Oregon hurdler, junior Ter
ry Ellis, also won his 110 collegiate
section with a 14.33. The time tied his
season best, and was also a Pac-10
qualifying time.
Sophomore Brandon Holliday round
ed out the Ducks’ hurdling action with a
fourth-place showing in his section of
the 400 hurdles Sunday afternoon. Hol
liday’s time of 52.15 was slightly slower
than his season-best 51.29.
Earlier in the weekend, Oregon sen
ior Billy Pappas finished sixth in the
decathlon at nearby Azusa Pacific
University. Pappas scored enough
points to land him on the NCAA pro
visional list and take the Pacific-10
Conference lead in the event.
In his first decathlon of the season,
Pappas scored 7,311 points — his third
highest total ever — over the two-day
competition Thursday and Friday. He
was helped by decathlon personal bests
in the shot put, javelin and 400.
The event marked Pappas’ full return
from a stress fracture in his vertebrae, an
injury that kept him from competing in *
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Freshman Katie McKeever led the way for the Ducks this weekend in Los Angeles, setting two career
bests in the discus throw; she also finished 34th in the hammer and 18th in the shot put.
■WOMEN: Katie McKeever leads the Ducks down
in Los Angeles, earning two personal bests
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Blue skies, warm temperatures and smoggy mountains.
All are characteristics of Los Angeles, and all but the
smog are perfect conditions for track and field athletes.
The Ducks used those conditions to their advantage
during the weekend, scoring high marks in key areas.
“It was great to be down here in the warm weather,”
head coach Tom Heinonen said. “This was a (weekend)
where we had a lot of good things
happen.”
Elisa Crumley and Becky Holliday
were two athletes who took advantage
of the weather. Crumley upped her sea
son best in the javelin throw by more
than three feet, earning fifth at the Mt.
SAC Relays on Sunday.
Holliday earned a season best in the pole vault with a
made attempt at 14-feet-l 1/4 inches, a mark good
enough for a second-place tie. She is still three inches be
low her personal best, but is quickly on her way to eclips
ing that height.
“Becky really stood out,” Heinonen said. “She was do
ing that in a big competition against some of the best in
the country.”
Friday’s Pomona Pitzer Invitational may have been the
meet of the weekend for the Oregon women.
Heinonen’s squad earned one NCAA provisional mark,
a Pacific-10 Conference qualifying mark, six personal
bests and three season bests — all of that with just 12
event entries.
“This is the best day we’ve ever had at Pomona,”
Heinonen said. “It started well with Ann (Sullivan) in the
hurdles and got better and better.”
Sullivan, a sophomore from Omak, Wash., missed a
Pac-10 qualifying mark by 0.02 seconds and finished
sixth in the 100 hurdles with a time of 14.36.
Continuing the Ducks’ impressive day, freshman Katie
McKeever improved her career best in the discus by 12
feet (165-feet-5 inches), easily meeting the NCAA provi
sional mark of 164-0.
McKeever continued her day by finishing 34th in the
hammer (158-7, season best) and 18th in the shot put
(42-2 3/4).
“Katie McKeever had her best day as a Duck,”
Heinonen said Friday. “After the hammer, she had to run
over to the shot put with no warm-ups and still almost
had a season best in that too.”
On Saturday, McKeever continued her dominance, this
time at Mt. SAC. The Woodland, Calif., native earned an
other NCAA provisional mark in the discus, this time
with a throw of 169-9. She is now eighth all-time in Ore
gon history in the event.
“This was Katie’s first meet wdth nothing but good
weather,” Heinonen said. “She really responded in the
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