Sports brief
Golfers earn
West Regional bid
The Oregon men’s golf team
found out Monday that it made the
NCAA West Regionals as the No. 18
seed in the 27-team field. The Ducks
need to finish in the top 10 at the
tournament to advance to the NCAA
Championships.
The regional tournament will be
held at the home course of the
Washington Huskies, Washington
National Golf Course in Auburn,
Wash. The golfers will tee off on May
15 and the tournament runs
through May 17.
The rest of Oregon’s Pac-10
brethren will join the Ducks in Seat
tle. The field also includes several top
ranked teams such as UNLV, Georgia,
New Mexico and Pepperdine.
Oregon will take five golfers to the
regional tournament. Those five are,
tentatively, John Ellis, Chris Carna
han, Mike Sica, Gregg LaVoie and
Kyle Johnson.
—Peter Hockaday
Emerald
Hicham El Guerrouj (1) won't be back for the Pre this year but Cornelius Chirchir will.
Track
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behind El Guerrouj at the 2002
mile and Lagat also finished third in
2001.
Webb might also compete in the
Pre. The former prep standout
spent last year at Michigan before
turning professional this year. He
will make his Pre decision next
weekend.
The Prefontaine Classic is sched
uled for May 24 at Hayward Field.
Twilight falls on PRs
Mother Nature wasn’t at her
best during Saturday’s Oregon
Twilight, but many of the Oregon
men were.
While rain fell and temperatures
dropped, the Ducks notched a
handful of important qualifying
marks and saw two record-chasing
performances from two standout
high schoolers.
But while the Ducks them
selves didn’t attack any major
records, they did attack them
selves with an onslaught of per
sonal records. At least eight Ore
gon men posted personal or
season bests at Saturday’s meet,
meaning the Ducks are peaking
just before the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships.
Sneak peek at the
Pac Dec
Based solely on existing marks,
Santiago Lorenzo should yawn his
way to another decathlon title at
the Pacific-10 Conference Cham
pionships. Before last weekend,
Lorenzo was the only Pac-10 de
cathlete with an NCAA automatic
point total in the multi-event de
cathlon. Shelton Davis of USC is
the top returner from last year’s
Pac-10 Championship; he fin
ished fourth.
Last year the Ducks used two
strong performances in the de
cathlon to start the Pac-10 meet
with a handful of points and even
tually finish second.
This year they could start
even faster. Lorenzo redshirted
last year and is back to replace
Billy Pappas, who won the Pac
10s last year. Jason Slye, who
finished fifth last year, is also
back. Those two will be joined
by Andy Young, a sophomore
who also redshirted last year
and currently stands fifth in the
conference.
The Pac-10 decathlon starts Sat
urday in Los Angeles and concludes
Sunday.
Contact the sports editor
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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