Duck baseball squad
faces building' year
Baseball coach Don Kirsch's
ball players are currently work
ing their way into shape for the
1960 season, which begins March
31 in a doubleheader at Linfield
College.
THE TEAM FACES the diffi
cult task of replacing six letter
men from last year's squad'. Most
of these replacements will have
to he made in the vital "down the
middle” positions of catcher, sec
ond base, shortstop and center
field. Kirsch has juniors and
seniors returning at most other
positions, but generally speaking
the team lacks experience. A
large number of the players are
juniors, and have had but one
year of varsity play.
The Ducks have been practicing
mostly indoors, for the past six
weeks, and most of the starting
positions, except for second base
and shortstop, have been claimed.
Captain Ron Walp will likely be
the team's catcher, although
sophomore Ray Haroldson from
Billings is giving him some com
petition. Left-hander Jim Hollis
ter will be at first base, and
junior Walt Baranski will play
third. The outfield will quite
likely consist of Jim Bode, a
strong hitting senior; Dick Oc
chiuto. a promising sophomore:
and Butch Nyssen. a higu per
centage hitter from Oswego. Har
oldson has a chance to play some
outfield, also.
THE DUCK’S pitching staff
sports what must be the smallest
one-two combination in the coun
try. Denny Peterson, the number
one starter, is a 5-6, 150-pound
fast bailer, and Jack Loy, the
number two starter, is a 5-8, 140
pound curve ball artist. Fred
Ballard anil Jim Uhrhammer, two
I other veteran hurlers Kirsch will
, depend upon to share the pitch
ing duty.
Commenting upon this year's
team, Kirsch said, "Some of our
best hitting is back; our worst
loss is defensive ability.” He
stated, true to coaching tradition,
i that all the teams in the Northern
! Division have a chance to win the
title this year.
Kirsch admitted that on paper
1 the Ducks do not shape up as the
! strongest Northern Division team
but he pointed out that the spirit
and determination that the play
i era have shown in practice drills
! could produce a ball club that
I will surprise the experts.
The Webfoots first heme per
formance will be a single game
against the University of Port
land on April 1. followed by a
; double-header against Lewis and
j Clark April 2.
Webfoot golfers optimistic
over 1960 link chances
Oregon's golfers, fourth place
finishers in last year’s NCAA
tournament, have four lettermen
returning, plus an outstanding
freshman team moving up for
this Spr ing’s play.
RETURNEES INCLUDE Keith
Gubrud, second place finisher in I
the Oregon Amateur', and gen
erally first man on the team for
the past two years: Chuck Siver,
low amateur ir. the Oregon Open
last year; and a pair of Tom’s.!
Shaw and Jakobsen. both of
whom have had their share of i
tourney wins and high finishes.
GU'BKID AND SiVER are
seniors. Shaw and Jakobsen are
juniox-s.
Netters open
season, April 8
Oregon's tennis team opens
ladder competition for team
berths March 28, and then starts
the season, April 8, against the
University of Portland at Port
land.
COACH DICK WILLIAMS has
two lettermen returning from last
season's squad in Phil Northcote
and Dick U’ren as well as Wayne
Henniger, who lettered in the '57
and '58 seasons, but was out of
school last year.
Moving up from the freshman ;
team of last year are Chailey j
Vaughn, Ed Robinson, Bruce Tay
lor, Stan Campbley; and from
frosh teams of previous years
Gary Rink and Jim Gordon will
compete.
Also turning out is John Mini
fie, a sophomore transfer from
Oregon State.
THE DUCKS, in the 1960 sea
son, will face Portland, Reed, j
WSU, Idaho, and Washington in I
single tilts and will also battle
with Willamette, Portland State
and Oregon State.
Williams is extremely pleased
with the prospects for his fresh
man team this year. He. termed
the team as potentially, “One of
the best freshman teams to come
to Oregon in the last ten years."
The team includes Oregon state
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Only losses off the team which
did so well in last year's. NCAA
tourney are Chuck Hunter, Jr.,
and Gary Hval.
COACH SID MILLIGAN' has
little cause to worry, however,;
because Jerry Cundari and Don
Clark, a couple of par-busters1
from last year's Frosh squad are
expected to fill the shoes of Hval
and Hunter.
Milligan's divoters open the
season April 8, with a match
against Oregon State at Eugene.
FOLLOWING THIS, the team
goes on a tour of Northern Cali
fornia. where they will meet their
first real test. April 13, they go
against perennially tough Fresno
State, winner of last year’s i
Northern California Intercol- ]
legiate tournament, in which the
Ducks finished fourth.
On April 14-16 they will com
pete in that same NCI tourney.
It is very likely that Milligan s
men will run into both Stanford
ind California, as well as Fresno
State in that one.
As a long range plan, the Web
foot golfers are aiming at the
Northern Division Champion
ships, in Corvallis, May 21-22, and
of course at the NCAA finals, to
be held in Colorado Springs.
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