• Women: Ducks already have six team points
Continued from page 9
collecting team points last weekend.
Oregon juniors Lauryn Jordan
and Lundeen rustled up six points
that will go toward the team score
this weekend and “may prove cru
cial,” Oregon assistant coach Rock
Light said
Light has Jordan slated to compete
in the long jump, high jump, triple
jump and 4x100 relay.
“I’m going to definitely try to get
top-three in all the jumps,” Jordan
said. “I’m going to go out there and
cheer on my teammates and hope
everybody gets good marks and we
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place higher than last year. ”
In 2004, Oregon finished seventh
for the second-straight season with
only 58 points. The Ducks have
not won the championship meet
since 1992.
Seniors Clarice Hayward-Lee and
Maegan TYaver will be working to
score points for Oregon and also re
gional qualifying marks for them
selves in the triple jump.
“Usually the big meets are my
thing so I’m hoping this is the case,”
TVaver said. “It’s not like I'm on top
with a lot of pressure, so I can relax
and do my thing.”
Oregon is looking for scoring con
tributions from events other than
jumping and throwing. Light said
Kayla Mellott and Kasey Harwood
give Oregon a “really solid one-two
punch” in the 400-meter hurdles.
Both are running the 4x100 and the
4x400 relays, but they are only expect
ed to finish with mediocre times and
to scavenge leftover points.
“The relays are not our strongest
events; we’re just not there right
now,” Light said. “This is their oppor
tunity to show what they can do.”
Seniors Laura Harmon and
Magdalena Sandoval are two of the
Ducks’ three distance runners com
peting this weekend. They are sched
uled to run the 5,000-meters.
“Pac-lOs is always exciting; the en
vironment there is different and any
thing can happen, which adds a really
nice element to it,” TVaver said. “It
will be nice to get out in the sunshine
and put up some good marks. ”
Portions of the two-day meet will
be televised May 21 on Fox Sports
Northwest from noon to 2 p.m. and
May 24 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
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Oregon senior Sarah Malone holds the Pac-10's best throw of the season and is favored to
win the javelin title at the Championships this weekend.
Men:Oregon comes in with a
three-point team advantage
Continued from page 9
“I think it’s us, UCLA, Arizona
State and USC,” Oregon senior dis
tance runner Brett Holts said. “I
think any one of the four teams
could take it. It’s definitely going to
be close, and it might come down to
the last two or three events. Even
though we might have a lead, we
can’t hold back anything.”
Oregon comes into the weekend’s
events with a three-point lead in the
team race, thanks to second and
fourth place finishes by decathletes
Andy Young and Cody Fleming,
respectively. Young and Fleming
captured 13 points in last week’s
Pac-10 decathlon championships, fin
ishing ahead of Washington State,
who earned 10 points.
The Ducks will be lead by return
ing Pac-10 champions Tommy Skip
per and Eric Mitchum. Skipper, the
reigning pole vault and decathlon
champion, will be competing in only
his second event of the outdoor sea
son after missing nine weeks due to
minor knee surgery.
Last week, Skipper competed in
his first event of the season — the
Oregon TWilight — and finished
third, clearing 17 feet, 3/4 inches,
something he knows won’t get done
this weekend.
“Around the country, there are a
couple of guys that jump 18-6,18-2,”
Skipper said. “But you know, a con
sistent 18-footer will take home most
of the meets.”
Mitchum, who won last week’s
Oregon TWilight 400-meter hurdles ti
tle, will turn his attention back to the
110 hurdles and look for his second
straight Pac-10 crown. Mitchum is
ranked first in the conference in the
110 hurdles and has already eclipsed
last year’s time of 13.62 with a sea
son best of 13.56.
Also on the track, Oregon’s Matt
Scherer is looking to move further up
Oregon’s all-time list in the 400-me
ters with a personal best this week.
Scherer will be chasing Arizona
State’s Domenik Peterson, who
owns the top 400 mark this season
(45.15) and will be well rested after
getting last week off.
“It’s ready,” Scherer said. “We
had a tough indoor season and we
came off that and did some more
base training and (sprints) coach
(Dan Steele) has done a real good
job of getting us to peak again. So
we’ve been taking it real light lately
and now we’re ready to open up.”
Oregon will also look to get
points from its long-distance run
ners, led by a pair of seniors, Eric
Logsdon and Holts. Freshman
Galen Rupp, fresh off his U.S. Ju
nior record run at last week’s Ore
gon Twilight, will add another po
tential point scorer for the Ducks.
Logsdon is coming off a personal
best time in the 5,000-meters at the
Cardinal Invitational two weeks ago.
Holts returns for his fourth stee
plechase, an event in which he has
finished third, second, and fourth in
the three years he has competed. The
senior, who currently ranks second
in the conference with a time of
8:47.11, said there’s nothing different
about this year’s race.
“I haven’t changed anything,
haven’t done anything different,”
Holts said. “At this point of the sea
son, it’s just whoever’s not hurt,
whoever’s got legs, and this year the
Pac-10 is more loaded than any other
year that 1 have run it. There are five
guys that run 8:45 or better and I just
have to go out there and not have the
pressure of trying to win it. I just
have to go and run, get into the mix
of things, and go from there. ”
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Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
Redshirt senior Davina Mendiburu has
compiled 73 career singles victories, which
ranks her second all-time in team history.
Mendiburu: 24
singles victories a
new career high
Continued from page 9
After battling hard to come back
from her ACL injury, Mendiburu, a
redshirt senior, has returned to have
her best season. She set a new career
high with 24 singles victories, adding
to her career total of 73, which ranks
her second all-time at Oregon. She
then capped her Pacific-10 Conference
career by winning the Pac-10 doubles
invitational championship with Bak
on April 24. The Ducks are also head
ed to the NCAA Tournament, which
begins today against Fresno State.
“I learned a lot from that (injury),
like being a stronger person, and it
made me realize how much I love
tennis and how much it was impor
tant to me,” Mendiburu said.
“When you’re a senior and you’re
on the court, you appreciate every
moment you have and you just give
it your all.”