Hot 1500 highlights Clackamas Invite
By Tracy M. Sumner
Of The Print
With Friday’s Clackamas
Invitational now history, Assis­
tant Track and Field Coach
Kelly Sullivan beamed with
satisfaction at his team’s domi­
nant performance.
“The score indicates our
performance,” Sullivan said.
Clackamas far outscored its op­
position by accruing 214
points, followed by Linfield
with 105, Western Oregon with
71, Clark Community with 54,
Pacific University with 30 and
Portland State with 28.
As a team, the Cougars
also broke or tied five school
records, set season’s bests in 10
events and had three more
athletes qualify for the Na­
tionals. Clackamas now has an
amazing total of 13 tracksters
qualified for the Nationals meet
May 19-21 in San Angelo,
Texas.
Nowhere in the final
results of Friday’s meet was the
Cougar’s dominance better il­
lustrated than in the 1,500
meter run. Clackamas runners
took five of the meet’s top six
finishing spots.
Brian Abshire was the
meet’s best with a 3:48.8 run.
Abshire’s run was also a new
school record, his second
school standard in as many
weeks. He had set a Cougar
record in the 5,000 meters with
a 14:12.9 clocking last week.
John Hansen and Matt
Parker both qualified for the
Nationals in the 1,500 with
season record runs of 3:51.9
and 3:53.2, respectively.
Kevin MacDermott and Jim
Edmark were the fourth and
sixth best in the meet in the
event. Paul Ploquid of the
University of Portland was the
only non-Cougar to finish in
the top six.
“That (the 1,500) was
definitely the highlight of the
meet for us without a doubt,”
Sullivan said.
The 5,000 meters, the
event in which four Cougar
men will participate in the Na­
tionals, was also Cougar-
dominated with Tony Macey
taking an easy first place with a
14:51 time. Rob Conner finish­
ed a distant second to Macey
for Clackamas with a time of
15:24.
In other long-distance
competition, Ken Velasquez
set a school standard in the
two-mile run with a 9:02.3
time, good for second in the
meet. Mike Priess of Linfield
was the meet’s best with a time
of 9:01.3.
If Sullivan had one gripe
about his team, it was that the
field event people didn’t per­
form up to the standards of
their teammates.
“It was a fine effort
overall,” he said, “but our field
event people didn’t do as well
as we had expected.”
Field men Larry Cumm­
ings, Roger Barnhurst, and
Scott Ames may have an argu­
ment for Sullivan. All three
men took first place in their
respective events.
Larry Cummings
Cummings, who Sullivan
gives an “outside shot” and
qualifying for the Nationals,
took first in the long jump with
a jump of 22-83/4, and the tri­
ple jump with a jump of
44-5V2.
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COUGAR QUALIFIERS-Brian Abshire,
the National leader in the 5,000 and 1,500
pulled teammates Matt Parker and John
Hansen to better the National standard;
Clackamas runners pictured left to right
are: Kevin MacDermott, Matt Parker, John
Hansen, Jeff Franklin and Brian Abshire.
Photos by Russ McMillen
Barnhurst warmed up for
the Region 18 meet by taking
first in the Invitational with a
javelin throw of 228-1. Ames
was the meet’s best in the
discus with a throw of 135-y4.
Scott Anderson, who
competed independently, was
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meet with a vault of 14-3.
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mer took fourth place in the
hammer with a throw of 147
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The performances of
Cougar
sprinters
was
highlighted by a new school
record by Les Taylor in the 200
meters. Taylor, who will repre­
sent Clackamas at the Na­
tionals in the 100 and 200
meters runs, finished Friday
with a 200 meters of 21.4 good
for first place in the meet. He
also took first in the 100 meters
with a run of 10.5.
Cameron Brennan of 3:18.5, a season’s best.
Clackamas was second in the
Greg
O’Shea
of
100 at 10.7.
Clackamas tied for second in
Another school record the 110 meter hurdles with a
was tied Friday by sprinter Jeff time of 15.5.
Pendleton’s Blue Moun­
Tressler. Tressler finished his
400 meter run in 48.3 to take tain Community College will be
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the College track record books. petition this Friday and Satur­
Matt Parker didn’t break day at the Region 18 meet.
Clackamas
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earn first in the meet with the pete. Sullivan is optimistic, but
subdued about his team’s
season’s best run.
The Cougars enjoyed a chances.
“This is the best team
good day in the 400 meter in­
termediate hurdles, taking we’ve ever had and we may
three of the top four finishing place third in the region,” he
said. “The competition this
spots.
Jon Elston tied the school year is just awesome.”
Regionals will be the last
standard in that event with a
54.0 run. Mike Dingman finish­ chance for some Cougar
ed third with a run of 57.2. athletes to qualify for the Na­
Scott Anderson was fourth at tionals this season. Besides the
13 already qualified, Sullivan
57.4.
The men’s relay teams gives four others a chance to
also enjoyed a very successful 90.
Mark Stevens in the
day, taking first in both the 400
javelin, Larry Cummings in the
and 1,600 meter relays.
The 400 meter team of 1 ong jump, Jon Elston in the
Elston, Tressler, Dan Dugan 400 meter run and Jim Edmark
and Coleman finished in in the steeplechase could all
realistically make the Nationals
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