Sports Editor:
Adam Jude
adamjude@dailyemerald.com
Monday, May 20,2002
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Oregon Daily Emerald
Pac-10 Conference Championships
Pac-10
. women’s
scores
1. UCLA 160
2. USC 157
3. Stanford 121
4. Ariz. State 89
5. WSU 85
6. Oregon 67
7. Arizona 59
8. California 44
9. Wash. 36
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Adam Kriz won the Pac-10 hammer title with a three-foot season-best Saturday. Kriz was one of five Oregon men to win individual Pac-10 championships.
Pac-10
men’s
scores
1. Stanford 151
2. Oregon 125
3. USC 1031/2
4. Ariz. State 103
5. Arizona 99
6. UCLA 911/2
7. WSU 71
8. Wash. 49
9. California 22
Oregon women step up’ into sixth place
■The Oregon women improve
to their best finish at the Pac-10
Championships since 1999
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
It wasn’t a top-five finish, and it
didn’t gain the Ducks any national
notoriety, but Oregon’s sixth-place
finish at the Pacific-10 Conference
Championships in Pullman, Wash.,
was its best effort since 1999, when
they placed fifth.
And as expected, it was Oregon’s
field squad that pulled it through.
Paced by the field squad, which
earned 53 of Oregon’s 67 points, the
Ducks were able to hold off Arizona.
“It was a great meet,” head coach
Tom Heinonen said. “It was another
step up for us. We had a lot of ath
letes who far exceeded expectation
and scrapped for points.”
UCLA, last season’s Pac-10 cham
pions, took this season’s version with
160 points, barely holding off 2001
NCAA champion USC. The Bruins
won the final event, the 4x400, en
Turn to Women’s, page 12
Courtesy Washington State Media Services
Junior Jenny Brogdon set a personal record in the high jump on Saturday, earning second
and propelling the Ducks to a sixth-place finish.
Men take second
in Pac-10 finals
■The Oregon men surprise the Pac-10 by finishing
second—the Ducks’ best finish in six years
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The race for the Pacific-10 Conference men’s track and field
title ended up being a distance contest.
The distance races are where Stanford is most proficient,
and that’s where the Cardinal edged the Ducks in the final
standings.
But the Ducks shocked the entire conference over the two
day Pac-10 Championships in Pullman, Wash., by winning
five individual titles on their way to second place in the team
race. Stanford won the conference title with 151 points, while
Oregon notched 125 points. It was the best finish for the
Ducks since they finished second in 1996.
Two of Oregon’s five individual championships came on
Sunday’s final day of competition. Senior Simon Kimata ran
to one conference title in the 800-meter race while sopho
more Brandon Holliday leaped to another in the 400 hurdles.
“The team has been so supportive through everything,”
said Kimata, who has been plagued by injuries that forced
him out of the postseason this past year. “I wanted to do it
for them.”
Turn to Men’s, page 10
Despite late rally, Oregon golfers miss NCAA cut by three strokes
Senior Aaron
Byers finishes
eighth but loses
the playoff
round and the
chance
to compete
in the NCAA
r Championships ■
By Adam Jude
Oregon Daily Emerald
To know disappointment is to be the
Oregon men’s golf team.
After dropping to 16th place Thurs
day after the first round of the NCAA
West Regional in Albuquerque, N.M.,
the llth-seeded Ducks bounced back
Friday to shoot a 292 — the second-best
round of the day — to sit in 12th, with
the top-10 teams and two individuals
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But on Saturday, the final round at
the Championship Golf Course, Oregon
finished tied for 13th, just three strokes
shy of earning its first trip to the NCAA
Championships in three years.
In another disappointing result for
the team, senior Aaron Byers lost a
playoff that would have sent him to the
NCAA Tournament as an individual.
The Ducks were near par during
much of their round Saturday but fin
-jghed^witl} a 5-over 293 for a three
l^lwji^ofcjl of 885, tying them with
UCLA at plus-21. Tournament host
New Mexico and Washington tied for
the team title at 872.
Byers ended his collegiate career
with his best performance at an NCAA
Regional. He shot an even-par 216 to tie
UCLA’s John Merrick and San Diego
State’s Mark Warman for eighth place,
but Merrick and Warman advanced af
ter the playoff.
After shooting a 2-under 70 in the first
round Thursday, Byers finished the tour
nament with consecutive 73s Friday and
Saturday. The Albany native had three
birdies in the final round but was ham
pered by a double bogey on the 12th hole.
Junior John Ellis was the only other
Duck to finish in the top 30. His three
round total was 220, tying him for 29th.
Chris Carnahan tied for 90th with a 227,
Mike Sica tied for 99th with a 228 and
senior Brandon Harnden finished his
career with a 229.
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at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.