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Oregon Daily Emerald 346-3712
Woods leads men’s track
The pole vaulter records
a nine-inch season-best
Saturday at the Texas Relays
Men’s track and field
Peter Hockaday
Sports Editor
With much of the focus on
Becky Holliday and the vaunted
women’s vault team, Trevor Woods
stole some limelight back for the
men Saturday at the Texas Relays.
Woods leapt 17 feet, 8 1/2 inch
es to take third in the crowded
university section of the pole vault
at Mike A. Myers Stadium. The
mark was an NCAA Regional quali
fier and set Woods’ season best by
more than nine inches.
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man hurdler Erie Mitchum made a
splash in his first meet against top
competition. Mitchum finished
second by .01 seconds in his quali
fying 110 hurdles heat Friday,
then finished fourth overall and
second among college athletes in
Saturday’s final. Mitchum already
qualified for the NCAA Regionals
with a time of 14.07 at the Oregon
Preview, but his 13.98 at the Texas
Relays solidified him as one of the
most exciting young talents on the
men’s track squad.
“I’ve had a good indoor and out
door season, and this gives me
even more confidence heading
into the middle stretch of the sea
son,” Mitchum said.
Mitchum said he hit a lot of hur
dles in Saturday’s final, but he felt
good about his performance
nonetheless.
“I still felt pretty smooth the
whole way,” Mitchum said. “I had
a good start and kept my speed
through the end, so I knew that a
time in the 13.90s was likely.”
Mitchum also ran a Pacific-10
Conference Championships-qual
ifying time in the 400 hurdles
Thursday.
Woods and Mitchum weren’t the
only Ducks in action over the
weekend. Freshman high jumper
Jeff Lindsey — a highly-touted
high jump recruit out of Texas last
year — returned to his home state
and took 14th in the high jump.
He hit his first height of 6-6 3/4,
but missed three attempts at 6-8
3/4 to tumble in the standings.
Lindsey is intimately acquainted
with the Texas Relays meet; as a
high schooler, he took fourth and
second in the high school compe
tition in his junior and senior
years, respectively. In those two
meets, he jumped 6-9 and 6-10.
On Friday, triple jumper Derek
Strubel finished 16th in his event.
His jump of 48-4 3/4 was well short
of his season best of 49-5 1/2.
The weekend capped nearly a
full week of action for the men. On
Wednesday and Thursday, Ore
gon’s decathletes were on display,
as Santiago Lorenzo finished sec
ond in his return to decathlon ac
tion after redshirting last season.
Oregon’s Andy Young finished
11th in the tough field.
“(Lorenzo and Young) laid it all
on the line and stepped it up in
pressure situations all meet long,”
Oregon assistant coach Bill Law
GeoffThurner Oregon Media Services
Trevor Woods notched his first NCAA
regional-qualifying height in Texas.
son said.
The Ducks’ relay teams didn’t
fare as well as the individuals on
the weekend. Oregon’s 4x800
team finished seventh in its 18
team field Thursday, while the
4x400 team finished sixth in its
heat and 15th overall Friday.
The Ducks won’t be making
travel plans again anytime soon.
Oregon returns home for the Pep
si Team Invitational next weekend,
then competes in two more home
meets before the Pac-10 Champi
onships in Los Angeles. All told,
the Ducks will spend almost a
month at home.
This year, the Pepsi Team Invi
tational takes the place of Oregon’s
traditional dual meet with Wash
ington. The Huskies will be at the
four-team meet, as will Colorado
and Minnesota. The meet will have
the head-to-head competition as
pect of the Washington Dual and
postseason meets, but the meet is
merely expanded in size this year.
Saturday’s first field event is
scheduled for noon, while the first
track event is scheduled for
2:40 p.m.
Contact the sports editor
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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attempts when she launched one
to 49-2 1/4, nearly five feet better
than her season best.
It was Etter’s only legal mark,
and earned her eighth overall and
her first NCAA Regional invite in
the event this season. The Everett,
Wash., native also earned seventh
in the discus in Friday’s competi
tion with a throw of 166-0.
In other action, sophomore
Elisa Crumley finished third in
her season debut of the javelin af
ter throwing 157-11. After prelim
inary throws of 152-11,147-4 and
147-1, Crumley opted out of her
next two before her final toss be
came her daily best.
“I came in with no expectations
because I’ve done so little in prac
tice,” Crumley, an All-American,
said. “I was worried about my
strength and endurance, so I
skipped my first throws in the final,
so I could save some strength and
try to relax, and that helped a lot.”
Also amidst Oregon’s javelin
trio was sophomore Roslyn Lun
deen who finished sixth, respec
tively, with a throw of 152-1. The
All-American settled for her best
mark in the preliminaries as she
fouled every attempt in the finals.
“I had an off day,” Lundeen
said. “Today was the first time I
tried to use a full approach and
my technique couldn’t handle the
speed. I have a lot of work to do in
the next weeks.”
Senior Amanda Brown wrapped
up action Friday for Oregon by
finishing third overall in the triple
jump. Brown cleared 40 feet for
only the fourth time in her career
at 40-9 1/2, good enough for a 3/4
inch personal best and the fourth
best all-time mark for Oregon.
The Oregon women featured
one entry on the track with sen
ior Heather Murtaugh finishing
fifth in her heat of the 100 in
12.17 seconds.
The Ducks return to Hayward
Field on Saturday for the Pepsi
Team Invitational. Oregon will
compete against Colorado, Min
nesota and Washington, with ac
tion beginning at noon.
Contact the sports reporter
at jessethomas@dailyemerald.com.