Track team signs

three prep stars
The Oregon men’s track and field team announced the signing of three of the nation’s top high school seniors, eligible to be freshmen for the 2002-2003 collegiate season.
The Ducks welcome sprinter Matthew Scherer of Red Hill High School in Bridgeport, Ill., and a pair of high jumpers — Teddy Davis of White Salmon High in White Salmon, Wash., and Jeffrey Lindsey of Mansfield High in Mansfield, Texas.
Scherer ranked sixth nationally in the 400 with a season best of 46.84 that also ranked him fourth in his class. In the 2001 Illinois 1A state championships, he placed top four in four events.
Lindsey’s 2001 season best of 7-feet-1-inch ranked him fifth nationally and third in his junior class. A week later, in the 2001 Texas 5A state championship, he took fourth as a junior (6-8) while competing with an abdominal muscle injury that occurred after leaping his personal best the week before.
Davis won the Washington state 2A high jump title (6-11) by a seven-inch margin and also scored in the triple jump (third, 43-6) and long jump (seventh, 20-6).

— from staff and wire reports