Freshmen lead Oregon to seventh victory
FOREST GROVE—With a pair
of freshmen leading the way, and
an “old timer” backing them up,
Oregon’s baseball Ducks found
just the right combination to win,
dumping Pacific, 6-2, here Mon
day.
While the win improved the
Ducks’ record to a still dismal
7-14, it may have inspired hope for
the future as the freshmen, Don
Mirkovich and Tom Dodd, pitched
and hit Oregon toward the win.
Add that to a perfect day at the
plate from teammate Mike Con
nolly, and the Ducks had all the
essentials for a win.
In his first collegiate start, Mir
kovich got the victory on the
mound for Oregon, giving up six
hits and three walks in his six in
nings of work.
But even more impressive was
the work of another freshman,
Dodd, who helped his own cause
as the Ducks’ leading hitter with a
home run and a double in four trips
to the plate.
While the pair of young Ducks
were enjoying their afternoon, so
was Connolly, whose four hits in
four trips included a double. Con
nolly knocked in a pair of runs in
what had to be a satisfying after
noon for the All-Pac 8 Northern
Division player -who has been
wearing a .222 average as a dis
guise this season.
The scoring started early for
Oregon, which got four runs in the
first and added single tallies in the
fifth and seventh innings en route
to snapping a three game losing
streak.
Oregon’s scoring spree started
when Mike Ritchey and Mike Kel
ler led off the game with walks.
Connolly then got the first of his
four hits, singling to right to score
Ritchey. Keller, who moved to
third on Connolly’s base hit, also
scored when the Boxer’s rightfield
er bobbled the ball.
Oregon got its third run when,
after Steve Elam bunted his way
aboard, Gig Nelson hit into a dou
ble play and Connolly scored.
The final tally of the flourish
came when Dodd doubled and
scored on Jeff Heaton’s single to
right.
Oregon got its run in the fifth as
Dodd blasted a home run to
straight-away centerfield, and
completed its scoring in the
seventh when base hits sand
wiched around a pair of Pacific er
rors scored Ritchey.
Pacific got its two runs in the
fourth inning when the Boxers’
Jerry Stoneman rapped a two-run
double.
Oregon 6, Pacific 2
Oregon 400 010 010 — 6 9 1
Pacific 000 020 000 — 2 6 6
Mirkovich, Merrill (7) and Nelson. Hampton, Wilhoit
(6) and Camara*. W — Mirkcvich (1-0). L — Hamp
ton. HR — Dodd (O). 2b — Dodd (O). Mike Con
nolly (O), Jerry Stoneman (P).
Oregon 1977 track bests
100 Meter Dash
Phil Bransom
Dale Warren
200 Meter Dash
Al Dukowski
Robert Curry
400 Meter Dash
Dacre Bowen
Denzil Davis
800 Meter Dash
Peter Spir
Randal Markey
1500 Meters
1977
10.71
10.84
career
10.4
10.68
21.49
22.05
21.49
21.47
47.07
47.44
46.7
47.44
1:50.33
1:51.27
1:49.7
1:50.22
Randal Markey
Matt Centrowitz
5000 Meters
Alberto Salazar
3:43.38
3:43.42
3:39.98
3:37.29
Rudy Chapa
10,000 meters
Alberto Salazar
Rudy Chapa
Steeplechase
Don Clary
Terry Williams
110 HH
Phil Bransom
Stan Whigham
400 IH
Phil Bransom
Stan Whigham
440 Relay: 40.7
Mile Relay: 3:12
Hammer
John McArdie
Ray Burton
Shot Put
Howard Banich
Jeff Stover
Discus
Ray Burton
Howard Banich
Javelin
Jim Smith
John Baehr
Ron Perkins
High Jump
Jan From
Greg Fries
Pole Vault
Tom Hintnaus
Steve Laird
Long Jump
Jon Ogard
Anthony Berry
Triple jump
Anthony Berry
13:47.8
13:53.68
13:47.8
13:53.68
29:03.44
29:03.47
29:03.44
28:32.0
8:44.3
8:48.37
8:44.3
8:48.37
14.05
14.41
13.6w (13.9)
13.8
54.36
54.41
(Dukowski, Bowen, Curry, Bransom)
2 (Davis, Curry, Hagmeier, Bowen)
54.0
54.41
187-11
182-9
187-11
182-9
6O-6V2
58-8V4
6O-6V2
58-81/4
190-2
171-6
204-4
182-4V2
235-8
205-1
208-1
235-8
227-0
208-1
7-0
6-10
7-0
6-11%
16-0
14-0
16-4V2
14-0
24-0%
21-9%
24-0%
21-9%
49-7
50-2
For Oregon, whose pitching
was belted by Washington State
in last weekend's series, every
thing came up roses on the
mound. After Mirkovich had se
cured himself of the win, reliever
Dan Merrill gained a save with
three innings of no-run, no hit
pitching.
That may be the kind of pitching
the Ducks will need as they go into
another string of games after play
ing six contests in seven days last
week.
The Ducks will take on Portland
State today at 3 p.m. at Howe
Field and will host Willamette
Thursday before returning to
Pac-8 play this weekend with a
three game series in Seattle
against Washington.
For sports writing
Objectivity just doesn’t apply
By MARK KIRCHMEIER
Of the Emerald
As a kid, I was a voracious
sports page reader.
Today, I still read the sports
pages.
.. .And I’m still a kid.
And one of the first things a
youngster learns when he begins
reading sports pages is that
idealistic notions of journalistic ob
jectivity do not apply to sports re
porting.
Sports writers since Grantland
Rice have written with a “we-they”
kind of discrepancy. The nature of
the story, quite simply, depends
on whether you are describing
“us,” the good guys, or “them,”
the bad guys.
For instance, our guy is “con
troversial." Their guy is a “trou
blemaker.”
Our fans are “animated.” Theirs
are “deranged.”
Our guy hits a “line drive.” Their
guy hits a “blooper" or “Texas
Leaguer.”
On our side, a guy is “colorful.”
On their side, he’s a “hot dog,” or
a “flake."
Our player is a “strong but sil
ent” type. But their guy, “can’t
take charge.”
Our team is “resourceful.”
Theirs is “lucky.”
Our guy is a “competitor.”
Theirs is a “hatchet man.”
Our guys are “trusted as
sociates.” Theirs are “hench
men.”
Our team gives “rewards.”
Theirs, “bribes."
Our guys are “swingers,” "lady
killers,” or “bon vivants." Theirs
are “skirt chasers” and "home
wreckers.”
Our companions are “girl
friends.” Theirs are “tramps.”
Our player is having “grave
academic difficulty.” Theirs is
“stupid.”
Our team plays “with spirit.”
Theirs plays “dirty.”
Our team is “canny." Theirs
“cheats."
Our team is “opportunistic.”
Theirs “gets all the breaks.”
On our side, it’s called “main
taining communication.” On
theirs, it’s “dissension.”
Our silences are “discreet.”
Theirs are a “cover-up.”
Our coach is “venerable.”
Theirs is “old.”
Our alumni are "benevolent."
Theirs are “fat cats.”
Our guy is “quiet” and “intro
spective.” Theirs is “dull.”
When one of our guys gets in
trouble, we have “spokespeople.”
They have “apologists” or “mouth
pieces.”
Our coach is “flexible." Their
coach “manipulates people."
Our coach has “long-time
aides.” Theirs has “cronies.”
Our team plays “good, solid
football.” Theirs plays “dull, con
servative football.”
Our guy is “confident.” Theirs is
an “ego maniac.”
Our guy is an “underachiever.”
Theirs is “lazy.”
Our player is “overly sensitive.”
Theirs is a “coward.”
Our team has a “winning tradi
tion.” They have a “football fac
tory."
Our guys “play the hitters.”
Theirs make “circus catches.”
Also, our team is having a
“building year." Theirs is having a
“losing season.”
We’re never beat, we’re “out
manned” by your “powerhouse.”
We re never “outcoached,” but
we may be “outrecruited.”
And finally, our sports writers
have “imaginative vocabularies.”
Theirs “lie a lot.”
NBA playoffs open tonight
By The Associated Press
The National Basketball As-a
sociation playoffs get under way’
today — finally.
The 902-game regular season,
which ended Sunday with an
added commotion caused by a re
ferees’ strike, eliminated ten of the
22 NBA teams. The remaining 12
begin a series of playoff games
which could last as long as June 8.
The four division winners—Los
Angeles, Denver, Philadelphia
and Houston-all received byes
through the first round of the
playoffs. They'll watch while the
other eight teams battle in best
of-three first-round series.
In the Western Conference, the
pairings are Chicago against Port
land and Detroit against Golden
State. Both series open today in
Portland and Oakland.
In the East, Boston meets San
Antonio with the first game tonight
in Boston, and Cleveland is paired
against Washington in a series
starting in Landover, Md., Wed
nesday night.
-Sporlfolio—=
V-ballers headed for regionals
The Oregon men’s volleyball team has qualified for the re
gional volleyball championships, to be held Saturday at Lane Com
munity College.
The men placed fourth in last weekend’s Oregon Champion
ships, held at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, to
gain entry in the regional competition.
Shuttlecocks to fly Saturday
The University will host the second annual state high school
co-ed badminton tournament at Gerlinger Annex Saturday.
Twenty teams have entered the tournament so far, including
South Eugene, West Albany, Sprague from Salem and several
Portland area schools.
Each team will consist of at least two boys and two girls. The
tourney will include men’s singles and doubles matches,
women’s singles and doubles and mixed doubles matches.
A badminton workshop conducted by John Rowley,
president-elect of the Oregon Badminton Association, and Gor
don Noraine, a past Oregon state champion in singles, doubles
and mixed doubles, is also featured.
Admission to the tournament, which begins at 9:30 a.m., is
free.
T5? |
TUESDAY, APRIL 12
MEN'S BASEBALL: Oregon vs Portland State
at Howe Field, 3 p.m. MEN'S TENNIS: Oregon vs
Southern Oregon at Eugene, 3 p.m. WOMEN'S
TENNIS: Oregon vs Portland State at Alder Street
Courts, 3:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
MEN'S BASEBALL: Oregon vs Willamette at
Howe Field, 3 p.m. WOMEN S TENNIS: Oregon vs
Willamette at Alder Street Courts, 3:30 p.m.
WOMEN'S SOFTBALL: Oregon vs Portland State
at Portland, 4 p.m. MEN'S GOLF: All American
Intercollegiate at Houston, Texas
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
MEN'S TENNIS: Oregon vs University oI Port
land at Portland, 3 p.m WOMEN S TRACK: LCC
Invitational (UO JV) at Lane Community College.
Eugene, 3:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
WOMEN S TENNIS: Oregon vs Lane Commun
ity College al LCC, 3:30 p.m. MEN'S BASEBALL:
Oregon vs Washington at Seattle. 3 p.m Pac-8,
Northern Division Game
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
MEN'S TRACK: Oregon vs Washington State at
Pullman, 1:15 p.m. Co-ed Meet. WOMEN'S
TRACK: Oregon vs Washington State at Pullman,
1:15 p.m. Co-ed Meet MEN'S BASEBALL:
Oregon vs Washington (DH) at Seattle. 1 p.m.
Pac-8, Northern Division game. WOMEN'S SOFT
BALL: Oregon vs Cal Stale Sacramento (DH) at
Sacramento, noon. WOMEN'S TENNIS Oregon
vs Washington at Alder Street Courts, 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 17
WOMEN S SOFTBALL: Oregon vs Cal Stale
Chico (DH) at Chico, noon.
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