Oregon Twilight Accepted Entries

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While some members of the University of Detroit Mercy men's and women's track and field squad will be in Ann Arbor for the Len Paddock Invitational on Saturday, a group of eight Titans made the journey to Eugene, OR, sight of the 2010 NCAA outdoor championships, to compete among some of the nation's best at the Oregon Twilight meet.

Competition at the University of Michigan's Len Paddock Invitational, set to begin Friday, was pushed back until Saturday due to severe weather.

Weather was not an issue for head coach Guy Murray and his select group of charges in Eugene in the day before getting underway, as they toured the University of Oregon's facilities and made a visit to Pre's Rock (pictured), a memorial at the site of the roadside boulder where legendary runner Steve Prefontaine died.

Senior Brittany Horne (Okemos, MI/Okemos) will be the lone member of the women's squad in action in Oregon, where she will compete in her specialty, the hammer throw. Horne shattered her own school record, and the Horizon League championships record, in the event last weekend, winning the HL title with a throw of 61.30 meters/201' 1". That throw was the 12th-best in the nation this season, and is the No. 6 mark in the east. The women's hammer throw will get underway at 5:05 p.m.

Competing for the men will be a seven-strong contingent of runners racing from 800 to 5,000 meters on the track at historic Hayward Field. 

First on the track for Detroit will be senior Kevin Wozniak (Dearborn, MI/Edsel Ford) and junior Matt Mahler (Thorold, ON/Denis Morris Catholic) in the 800 meter run, slated to go off at 5:05 p.m. Both runners posted their best times of the season in the event at league championships, where Mahler clocked a 1:54.73 and Wozniak posted a 1:58.07.

Junior Kevin Smalley (Gladwin, MI/Gladwin) will take to the oval at 7:20 p.m. in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, in which he ran a season-best time of 9:48.61 at the HL championships on April 30. 

At 7:55 p.m., senior Alex Gould (Comstock Park, MI/Comstock Park) and junior Pat Liederbach (Petoskey, MI/Petoske) will be running in the same heat of the 1,500 meter run. Gould was eighth across the line at the league championships, running 3:54.74 in the event, his fastest of the spring. Liederbach, who was second in the 5,000 meter run last weekend, ran his best time of the season in 1,500 at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational on April 3, where he came across in a time of 3:55.91.

The final Titan competitors of the evening at the Oregon Twilight meet will be juniors Ryan Ayala (Coopersville, MI/Coopersville) and Alex Harris (Huntington Woods, MI/Shrine), running the 5,000 meters at 8:05 p.m. On April 16, Ayala clocked 15:44.46 in the event at the EMU Twilight meet, while Harris has primarily run the 10,000 meters this spring, taking ninth in that race with a 32:19.95 at the Horizon Legue meet.