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' Track continued from page 5 O’Hara is tops in the pole vault at 14-feet-3 1/4-inches, while Ore gon’s Becky Holliday is No. 2 at 14 11/4. Arizona’s Amy Linnen is tied for third at 14-0. The three stars are all heading to Pullman, Wash., for the confer ence championship with a full head of steam. O’Hara reached her top mark at the UC San Diego Invitational on April 27, while Holliday’s was at the Mt. Sac Re lays a week earlier. Switching to throwing events, the conference is not. as strong, but can still hold its own. Stasiulionyte is No. 1 in the javelin with a throw of 183-7, while current Duck Sarah Malone is third at 179-2. Malone’s team mate Elisa Crumley is sixth, while USC thrower Leslie Erickson is a spot below. No other Pac-10 athletes are found until No. 11 when Oregon’s Roslyn Lundeen’s mark is visible at 166-11, and No. 16, where Ari zona’s Julie DeMarni is found. Overall, the conference boasts eight athletes with the best mark in the nation in a single event, fol lowed by six more with second best marks. Not surprisingly, UCLA is tops in the conference with four ath letes atop the lists. The Bruins, ranked No. 4 in the country, are heading into both the Pac-10 Championships as well as the NCAA version as one of the fa vorites to take first. Duck soup The Oregon Twilight, scheduled for Saturday, will feature some of the nation’s best in the women’s steeplechase. Lisa Nye, the 2001 U.S. Champi on, is the odds-on favorite to win the event, which will also feature Kelly MacDonald, a 2001 All American. MacDonald, a 2001 graduate of Arizona State, was a standout at Tu alatin, Ore., High in the mid-1990s. She is ranked fourth in the nation in the event this season. The list doesn’t stop there. Tonya Dodge, the 11th ranked athlete in the country, and Jen nifer Michel, one spot below, will also converge at Hayward Field on Saturday. A look back Current Oregon athletes cleaned up at last year’s Oregon Twilight, garnering seven first place finishes and seven more second-place spots. Junior Mary Etter placed second in the shot put, third in the ham mer, and finished off her day with a first-place mark in the discus. Current teammates Dani Keyser (shot put), Jamie Burk (discus) and Jill Hoxmeier (hammer) all finished in the top five. The Oregon javelin squad ran the gamut in the event, and came up smelling like roses. Malone placed first, Charyl Weingarten second and former Duck Sara Dinsmore was third. Janette Davis (400), Lucretia Larkin (100 hurdles), Rachel Kriz (high jump) and Amanda Brown (long jump) are all current Oregon stars who took first in their respec tive events last season. E-maii sports reporter Hank Hager at hankhager@dailyemerald.com. i " '-: Jonathan House Emerald Janette Davis, last year’s winner at the Oregon Twilight in the 400, is the front-runner to take the event again on Saturday at this season’s competition. Sports brief Yao Ming scores a dunk in Chicago’s Chinatown CHICAGO (KRT) — Hordes of NBA scouts have been studying videos of every move that Chinese basketball star Yao Ming made at his Chicago workouts last week. But Erica Chung, the executive director of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, has been on a differ ent mission. She’s out to learn which restaurant sent food to the towering athlete while he was holed up in a hotel. “I’ll find out somehow,” Chung said. “I’m sure someone will tell me eventually. That would be a big deal in the Chinese community.” Everything Ming did during his four-day Chicago stay was big — how could it not be at 7-foot-5 — and no one followed him closer than the 35,000 or so Chinese Americans living there. The local Chinese me dia, not used to having a sports star from the mainland in their midst, was just as interested in his visit as everyone else in the press. “(Tennis star) Michael Chang was big in the community, and there always seems to be someone in figure skating, but they’ve almost become stereotypes,” Chung said. “This visit was even more pertinent because May happens to be Asian Heritage Month in Chicago.” The two Chinese-language dailies that circulate here, Sing Tao Daily and World Journal — both of which are published elsewhere but have Chicago offices — carried sto ries on Ming from the moment he landed at O’Hare until he departed. “The Chinese community is very, very excited because they really like basketball,” Sing Tao bureau chief Michelle Teo said. — Mike Conklin Chicago Tribune Need a Job? A Roommate? Or a Computer? Look in the ODE Classifieds! 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