UO's Skipper fifth at pole vault event.Byline: The Register-Guard REGIONAL ROUNDUP RENO, Nev. - University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. senior Tommy Skipper finished fifth Friday in the elite men's division of the Pole Vault pole vault Track-and-field event consisting of a vault for height over a crossbar with the aid of a long pole. It became a competitive sport in the mid-19th century and was included in the first modern Olympic Games. Summit. Skipper, a four-time NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association champion indoors and outdoors, cleared his opening height of 18 feet, 1/2 inch on his third attempt but couldn't improve on that mark. The only collegiate competitor in the elite division, whose personal best is 19 feet, was knocked out of the competition at 18-4 1/2 . Jeff Hartwig won the competition with a mark of 18-8 1/4 . Former Oregon pole vaulters Becky Holliday and Niki McEwen were among the top six in the women's elite division. Holliday finished third in 14-5 1/4 , just off her personal best of 14-7 1/4 , and McEwen was sixth in the 14-1 1/4 . Northwest Christian rolls to 40-point victory Josh Jarrett scored 20 points and Carden Gambee added 19 to lead Northwest Christian College Northwest Christian College is a private, liberal arts college located in Eugene, Oregon and is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ. past Puget Sound Christian 92-52 in a men's basketball game Friday at Morse Event Center. Jarrett and Gambee combined to make 16-of-22 field-goal attempts for the Beacons, who shot 55.6 percent as a team while improving to 9-9 and dropping Puget Sound Christian to 0-25. Andrew Williams added 10 points for NCC NCC See National Clearing Corporation (NCC). . Chris Reichert's 19 points led Puget Sound Christian. Lanz leads Beavers to gymnastics win CORVALLIS - Jami Lanz won the balance beam and vault en route to first place in the all-around to lead Oregon State to a 195.400-191.875 women's gymnastics victory over California on Friday. The Churchill High School product had a 39.300 total for four events to edge teammate Mandi Rodriguez's 39.000 total. Lanz had a 9.900 score on the balance beam and a 9.875 score on the vault. She tied for third place in the floor exercise and tied for fifth on the uneven parallel bars uneven parallel bars Event in women's gymnastics in which a pair of wooden bars supported horizontally above the floor at different heights is used to perform acrobatic feats. The apparatus allows a great variety of movements, but hanging and swinging exercises predominate. . The Beavers also got victories from Kera Bolen in the floor exercise and D'Anna Piro on the parallel bars. Totems totems (tō·t  mz),n. edge Generals in junior hockey game SEATTLE - The Seattle Totems scored three goals in a span of 1 minute, 44 seconds in the third period to overcome the Eugene Generals 7-6 in a Northern Pacific Hockey League game Friday. Garrett Bossert's goal 3:13 into the third period gave Eugene a 5-4 lead before Seattle's surge. Eric English scored the tying goal 8:44 into the period, followed by Markus Ward's go-ahead goal 9:23 in and a goal by Justin Ross 1:05 later. Michael Frei scored one of his two goals with 5:54 left to play to pull Eugene within 7-6. Lucas Romero also scored twice for the Generals, who got another goal from Troy Mytinger. The loss dropped Eugene to 21-17 in the Nor-Pac's Pacific Division, 12 points behind second-place Seattle (27-9) and 14 ahead of fourth-place Tri-City (14-22). Oregon State swimmers race past Idaho in dual CORVALLIS - Sandy Hong, Robin Klein and Kayla Rawlings won two events each to lead Oregon State's women's swimming team to a 117-75 victory over Idaho on Friday. Hong won the 500-yard freestyle and 1,000 freestyle to run her career dual-meet victory mark to 36. Klein won the 50 and 100 freestyles, and Rawlings won the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly. South Eugene High School South Eugene High School is a public high school located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was founded as Eugene High School around 1900, and was located at Willamette Street and West 11th Avenue in a brick building that later served as Eugene's city hall. product Erika Wirth swam a leg on OSU's winning 200 free relay team. Other OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. individual winners were Corinne Burrow in the 200 breaststroke and Anna Crandall in the 200 individual medley. Former North Eugene High School North Eugene High School is a public high school of about 1,200 students in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It is located at 200 Silver Lane near the Santa Clara area of Eugene.[1] North Eugene's mascot is the Highlander. swimmer Kacie Hogan won the 200 backstroke for Idaho. |
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