Ducks defend home turf in Oregon Invitational
Jonathan House Emerald
Top: Oregon record-holder Becky Holliday vaults at the Oregon Invitational. Holliday, the
nation’s No. 1 vaulter, won the event with a jump of 13-feet-05.25 inches.
Bottom: It was anything but an easy day for senior Micah Harris. But the Tempe, Ariz.,
native placed first in the 110 hurdles and second in the 200.
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WOMEN: Oregon’s field squad
takes its events in convincing
fashion, highlighting the Invite
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Duck women are getting
just a little too predictable these
days.
At least in the field events.
The Oregon Invitational, held
Saturday at Hayward Field, was a
veritable stomping ground for Ore
gon’s throwers and jumpers. Of the
10 field event competitions during
the 10 1/2-hour event, the Ducks
took first six times, added two sec
ond-place finishes and a third. To
say it was a good day for the Ducks
would be an understatement.
"The (javelin) throwers, they
were certainly solid,” head coach
Tom Heinonen said. “And Becky
(Holliday) did a really good job un
der trying circumstances. I liked
the hammer throw with Jordan
Sauvage throwing a really solid
175 (feet).”
Holliday took the twilight sec
tion of the pole vault with a jump
of 13-5.25, but failed to clear 14-2
in three attempts. However, she
continued her hot streak and is do
ing so in a convincing fashion.
“It’s disappointing,” the junior
said. “I should definitely be able
to hit 14 right now. I really want
ed 14-2.”
The Ducks were able to get a
preview of next season with Niki
Reed competing against Holliday.
Reed, who is redshirting the out
door season, competed as an un
attached athlete, but failed to
clear a height.
Competing in one of the final
events of the night, sophomore
Sarah Malone continued her win
ning ways, throwing the javelin for
a mark of 170-5, good enough for
first place by more than 15 feet.
Oregon teammates Elisa Crumley
and Charyl Weingarten finished
two-three in the event.
Rounding out the day in the
field events, juniors Sauvage and
Mary Etter com
peted seeming
ly all day for
the Ducks, par
ticipating in the
shot put, discus
and hammer.
Etter took the
shot put (47-07.75) and discus
(173-02) in the day session, but
fell to sixth in hammer in the af
ternoon. Sauvage won the ham
mer by a full six feet with a throw
of 175 after finishing third in the
discus earlier in the day.
Oregon’s field competitors may
have earned the glory, but the
Ducks’ track athletes earned a ton
of respect. Highlighted by Eri Mac
donald’s second place finish in the
twilight session of the 800, Oregon
held its own against some of the
best in the country.
After a collision in which almost
half the field was affected, Mac
donald jumped to her feet and was
able to take second, albeit two sec
onds behind Weber State’s Allison
Adams. Macdonald earned a time
of 2:12.79 but wasn’t happy with
her finish, despite the collision.
“I think we were all too excited
and trying to run too fast and mov
ing up when we didn’t need to,”
Macdonald said of the collision. “I
did what I could. I’m not happy
with my time at all.”
Oregon’s inspiration award of
the night could easily go to senior
Jenny Kenyon. Participating for the
last time at Hayward Field in an
Oregon uniform, the Newbury
Park, Calif., native finished second
in the twilight version of the 100
hurdles, and helped the Ducks to a
first place finish in the 4x400 relay.
The next time she will com
pete, Kenyon will be in Pullman,
Wash., at the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships.
“I was coming around the last
turn (in the 4x400), and I was like,
‘I’ve gotta give it everything I
have,”’ she said. “It’s definitely
closing this part of my life which is
really sad.”
Continuing Oregon’s hot streak as
the host squad, junior Janette Davis
took first in the 400 with a time of
55.29, third in the 200 (24.93), and
was also on the 4x400 squad that
placed first. Although her mark in
the 400 was not near her personal
best, Heinonen singled her out as
having an impressive day.
“I was really happy for Janette
Davis because she’s had a rough
time for the last several weeks,”
he said. “She ran a really good,
tough, strong race and ran a good
200, and then a great relay split.
And she handled it all really
well. She can have a great conclu
sion to her season.”
The Ducks now look forward to
next week when the team will
participate in a quadruple meet
in Lincoln, Neb. Wyoming, Ne
braska and Kansas State will join
Oregon in the one-day event, set
for Saturday.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
MEN: Holliday, Logsdon, Harris
and the rest of the Oregon squad
compete well at Hayward
in Oregon Invitational
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
With Samie Parker and Allan
Amundson in Portland at the foot
ball team’s Spring Game, the Ore
gon men’s track team was not at full
strength. But that — or the unfavor
able weather during Saturday’s 10
1/2-hour event — did not stop the
team from placing well.
“All in all, we’ve had two pretty
high-powered weekends recently,
so this was a little more low-key
for us, and I thought the guys did a
nice job,” head coach Martin
Smith said.
Oregon is coming off competi
tions in Walnut, Calif., for the Mt.
San Antonio College Relays and at
Hayward Field for a dual meet with
Washington.
Running in the 4x400, Oregon’s
Jason Slye, Brandon Holliday, Ross
Krempley and Jake Horner placed
second, less than a second behind
Weber State’s team.
“I thought the mile relay did a
good job running with two of the de
cathletes running,” Smith said.
“That’s not going to necessarily be
our fastest team by the end of the sea
son, so I thought they did a nice job.”
Before running the second leg of
the 4x400, Holliday took first in the
400-meter hurdles in 51.74 seconds.
“I though Brandon did a nice job
in intermediate hurdles and came
back and ran a wonderful leg in the
mile relay,” Smith said.
The most dominating perform
ance by Oregon came in the 110
meter hurdles as the Ducks swept
the first four spots. Micah Harris —
who placed sec
ond in the 200
meter dash be
hind Arizona
State’s Pete
Lopez — ran for
the win in 13.78
seconds. He was
followed by teammates Terry Ellis,
Billy Pappas and Sean Sanderson.
Redshirt freshman Eric Logsdon
ran for his season-best time in the
1,500-meter run, as he placed sec
ond with a time of 3:49.99 — good
enough to qualify him for the Pacif
ic-10 Conference Championships
on May 18 in Pullman, Wash.
Logsdon paced himself well, stay
ing with a major portion of the pack
until the end of the race, but could
n’t catch Utail’s Nephi Tyler who fin
ished almost three seconds ahead.
“I felt pretty good,” Logsdon
said. “We were just concentrating
on making sure the last 200 meters I
could kick down the rest of the
guys. I would have liked to have
run a little faster, but it’s more about
competition than anything else.”
Logsdon said that the weather,
which changed from rain to sun to
hail throughout the course of the
day, did not affect his running.
“It’s not ideal to run fast, but it
shouldn’t affect how you compete,”
he said.
Smith echoed his runner’s senti
ment.
“It was a crazy day, but track and
field is an outdoor sport,” the head
coach said. “You can’t control the
weather, and good athletes don’t let
it get the best of them.”
Oregon’s throwers did not have
as much success as their running
teammates, as Adam Jenkins fin
ished seventh in the javelin and
Adam Kriz placed fifth in the ham
mer throw.
In the pole vault, Oregon’s stand
out Trevor Woods cleared 17-06.5
feet, which was good for second
place. Woods’ coach, Mark Van
derville, also competed as an unat
tached competitor, placing fourth
with a mark of 16-04.75.
Oregon next competes in the Car
dinal Invitational in Stanford on
Friday.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Golf
continued from page 7
received even-par 72s from Hamden
and Carnahan. After solid rounds,
Byers sat in a tie for seventh, where
Harnden was lifted into 18th and
Carnahan was in a tie for 38th.
Third-round leader Jim Seki of
Stanford carded a two-over 74 Sat
urday, but it was still barely enough
to win Pac-10 medalist honors by
one stroke. Teammate Phillip Rowe
and USC’s Kevin Stadler finished
tied for second at 285.
Byers and Harnden tied for 11th
at 2-over 290 when it was all over,
while Carnahan tied for 35th at
plus-10. It was the highest confer
ence finish of their careers for Ellis,
Byers and Harnden.
With their upper division finish
in the Pac-10 Tournament, the
Ducks have locked up a spot for the
NCAA West Regional, beginning
May 16 in Albuquerque, N.M.
“I would expect we will have to
play a little better to advance at re
gional,” Nosier said.
Jesse Thomas is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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