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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.
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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
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