Freshman javelin thrower won’t risk more injury
■ Roslyn Lundeen is close to
competing again but has decided
it is better to be safe than sorry
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Wait and see, wait and see.
That is Oregon head coach Tom
Heinonen’s response when asked
about the status of freshman
javelin thrower Roslyn Lundeen.
After storming through the early
part of the 2002 outdoor season —
earning an NCAA provisional mark
of 166-feet-l 1 inches at the Arizona
State Invitational — Lundeen is in
a holding pattern. An elbow injury
has kept her out of competition for
the last two weeks.
Needing only two feet to earn
an NCAA automatic mark and be
come the third Duck to do so in
the javelin — Sarah Malone and
Elisa Crumley are the other two —
Lundeen is looking forward to
competing again.
“I’m feeling probably good
enough to throw right now, but I’m
going to wait a little bit and hopeful
ly throw at Nebraska next week
end,” she said from the sidelines at
Hayward Field on Saturday.
“I’ve always had a problem with
the ulnar nerve in my elbow. Origi
nally, we thought maybe that was it,
but it’s actually been muscle and lig
ament damage. It’s mild, and it
should heal shortly.”
Oregon did not have much com
petition Saturday, with only four of
the 16 throwers in the event moving
to the final round. The other Ducks
— Malone, Crumley and Charyl
Weingarten — picked up the slack
in the event, placing first, second
and third, respectively.
The Ducks could have used Lun
deen’s throwing ability, but in a
non-scoring meet, there was no
reason to push the freshman back
into competition.
“We’re going to wait another
week and figure she’ll be ready to go
at Nebraska,” Heinonen said. “We
want to get her back into it, and I
know she wants to, but she’s so
young we just can’t dare risk her fu
ture at all.”
Burk‘victimized’
There were some hurt feelings
Saturday at Hayward Field, and
for once, it wasn’t because of a
poor showing.
Sophomore Jamie Burk appeared
to throw for a personal best in the
hammer during the first round of
competition at the Oregon Invita
tional. Her supposed mark of 163
feet would have been good enough
to move the Beaverton native into
the final round, where teammate
Jordan Sauvage eventually won the
competition with a mark of 175-02.
Had her mark stood, Burk would
have gained a personal record by
more than eight feet. Her mark,
however, was not counted, and
Burk had to settle for ninth.
“Jamie Burk, unfortunately, got
victimized by an official’s error,”
Heinonen said. “It is very unusual
in this sport. But it does happen in
rare occasions.”
Vanderville sighting
He’s back.
Ten years after starring for the
Ducks, Mark Vanderville returned
to Hayward Field for the Oregon In
vitational. This time, he wasn’t in
an Oregon uniform, but he contin
ued the success that followed him
around during his days as a Duck.
Granted, Vanderville didn’t come
close to the marks that made him
the Pacific-10 Conference runner
up in 1990. His final mark in the
pole vault was 16-04.75, good
enough for fourth place at the Invite,
but far below his career best of 17-6,
ninth all-time in Oregon history.
Vanderville still had that compet
itive spirit in him. At least that’s
what one of his current pupils,
Becky Holliday, thinks.
“It’s cool that my coach still
vaults,” she said. “He practices
with us and does stuff with us. He’s
not sitting there in a chair and get
ting a gut. He’s out there. I see his
technique, and he’s almost perfect
ed it. To watch him, whatever he
says, makes me listen to him that
much more.”
In addition to being Oregon’s vol
unteer coach, assigned to the Ducks’
women pole vaulters, Vanderville is
a fire engineer at Eugene’s Station 1,
located downtown. He is assigned
to the pumper and ladder truck.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.
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fashion as she came up with two
outs and two runners on in the bot
tom of the seventh, but her drive to
center was caught by Marie Jackson
just short of the wall.
“I was just trying to get a hit,”
Bergstrom said. “It’s always tough
against (Hawaii) — it’s always close
when we play them. ”
Freshman Lindsey Kontra started
in the circle in the opening game for
the Ducks and did not allow a hit
until the third inning. Hawaii’s bat
ters found their stroke in the
fourth, scoring a run off a single up
the middle by Trisha Ramos that
scored Kate Judd, who had dou
bled. The Rainbow Wahine scored
on another double and RBI single
in the fifth, before tacking on three
more in the seventh. Two of
Hawaii’s runs in the seventh came
i ■ ■
on solo home runs by pinch hitter
Sheri Oronoz and Jackson.
Kontra finished with no strike
outs and allowed eight hits for four
earned runs.
Oregon had base runners in every
inning except the sixth, but could not
push a run across the plate until its
four-run seventh. Goodell led off the
final frame with a solo blast to left for
her second homer of the season.
After Amber Hutchison grounded
out to short, Lynsey Haij walked and
Jenn Poore singled to left. Alyssa
Laux followed with an RBI single up
the middle off Oronoz, who had re
lieved freshman Melissa Coogan. Af
ter Vidlund grounded out on a nub
ber down the first base line, Mari Lyn
Petrick doubled scoring Laux and
Poore. That was all Oregon could
muster as Ashley Richards walked
setting the table for Bergstrom’s warn
ing-track fly out.
Connie McMurren threw the sec
ond game for Oregon and looked
shaky early, allowing three runs in
the first on a three-run homer by
first baseman Stacey Porter. Hawaii
tacked on another run in the sec
ond, but was shut down by McMur
ren the rest of the way. The Oregon
senior finished with five strikeouts
and three walks, eight hits and four
runs allowed in seven innings.
With the game tied at four in the
seventh, McMurren allowed a dou
ble to Hawaii’s leadoff hitter Natalie
Gonzales, who advanced to third on
an error credited to Laux while
fielding a relay throw from right
fielder Rachel Tommasini. With
Gonzales on third, consecutive
Hawaii hitters grounded to Haij at
short. McMurren then intentional
ly walked Porter and got Ramos to
pop to Laux for the final out.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
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