Decker, Wysocki Matched in Sunkist Meet on Friday

The first major track meet in the United States since the 1984 Olympic Games, the 26th annual Sunkist Invitational, will be held Friday at the Sports Arena. High school events will begin at 4:45 p.m., and the pole vault will start the open competition at 6:30. The meet has drawn many of the stars from the Games. Ruth Wysocki, who beat Mary Decker in the Olympic trials and since has criticized Decker’s behavior at the games, will run against Decker in the 2,000-meter run. Eamonn Coughlan of Ireland, American record-holder Steve Scott and New Zealand’s former Olympic champion, John Walker, will compete in the men’s mile. Coghlan missed the 1984 season with a stress fracture. Valerie Brisco-Hooks, the female track star of the Games with three gold medals, will go after the world indoor mark for the 440. She won the 200- and 400-meter events in the Games, and ran a leg on the winning 1,600-meter relay team. The pole vault will bring together Billy Olson, the first man to clear 19 feet indoors; Earl Bell, Olympic bronze medalist, and Olympian Doug Lytle. Dwight Stones, who finished fourth in the Games, heads the high jump field. Others entered include Olympic silver medalist Greg Foster, gold medalists Jeanette Bolden and Alice Brown, former world champion Bert Cameron of Jamaica, bronze medalist Earl Jones, American 800-meter record holder Johnny Gray, bronze medalist Florence Griffith and gold medalist Al Joyner.