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Photo by Perry Gaskill
Rick Washut, quarterback for the Ducks ' white squad in Saturday s scrimmage, carries the ball for yards
as the White's lost 10-9.
Baseballers die from losing season
and an 18-3 thrashing by the Beavers
By DAN LINDAHL
Of the Emerald
After two months of lingering ill
ness, the Oregon baseball team
was pronounced dead for the
1977 season Saturday in Corval
lis.
Death came at 5:37 p.m. at Cole
man Field on the Oregon State
campus. Final rites were delivered
by the Beavers in the form of an
18-3 victory.
Behind the three-hit pitching of
Glenn Fisher, the Ducks had
shown signs of recovery in the first
game of the double-header as
they downed the Beavers 7-1. But
17 OSU hits brought on a relapse
and Oregon finally succumbed to
its ailments.
Cause of death was determined
as an acute lack of pitching and
defense. Both were prevalent in
Saturday s second game.
The Beavers ripped out hits at
will against Oregon pitchers Craig
Fetzer, Jerry Cunningham and
Dan Merrill. The Ducks worsened
their condition by committing
seven errors.
Resistance to expiration came
in the form of three hits by Kirk
Cameron and Mike Keller, and
two hits, including a home run, by
powerful Steve Elam. It wasn't
enough to offset the disasterous
effects of the pitching and fielding
ills, however.
What made the sudden death
surprising was Oregon’s excellent
performance in the opening game
of the day.
Coming off a shabby 11 -4 rout
Friday in Eugene, Glenn Fisher
made the Beavers look like the
sick ones, striking out four and
walking just two enroute to his
third win in nine decisions.
While OSU looked like it was
battling with ball point pens, the
Ducks were swinging telephone
poles.
Cameron made shambles out
of Pat Barry’s side arm deliveries,
stroking three hits and driving in
three runs. Mike Connolly picked
up two hits and scored two runs,
while freshman Tom Dodd drove
home a pair of runs.
"Fisher pitched as well as Eric
Wilkins," praised OSU coach Jack
Riley in comparing Fisher to the
OSU star. "He just came right at
us.”
There was no hiding their ail
ments for another game though,
and the 18-3 whipping, the worse
loss to Oregon State since a 20-2
affair in 1950, was like pulling the
plug on the terminally ill Ducks.
With only three players leaving,
there is hope for a new, vibrant
dub in 1978. But until then, there
is only the mourning.
Friday s Game
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Daisy Ducks’ golf
tourney starts today
Oregon will host the Third An
nual Daisy Duck Invitational Golf
Tournament today and tomorrow
at the Emerald Golf Course, near
Creswell.
Oregon coach Diane Baxter
sees senior Kathy Young and
junior Ginny Burkey as contend
ers for the individual title. This
tournament climaxes season's
play for Oregon, OSU and
Washington, the only northwest
schools that have women’s golf
programs.
Golfers will tee off at 1 p.m. today
and tomorrow with the finals
scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Men, women net runner-up slots
in regional tennis tournaments
By PETER GAY
Of the Emerald
The upset hopes of Oregon's
men were shattered by a tough
Washington squad in the Pacific-8
Northern Division tennis cham
pionships held here this weekend
The Huskies, undefeated in
Northwest play this season, rallied
behind tournament MVP Mike
Greenberg to beat the Ducks 8-1,
and win their second straight
Northern Division crown. The lone
victor for the second place Ducks
in Sunday’s showdown match
was third singles player Alan Lau.
Oregon had little trouble with
the tournament’s other entries,
trouncing Seattle University 8-1
outdoors on Friday and WSU by
an identical score after moving to
the covered courts on Saturday.
Their fine play however, was
not enough to cool the hot
Washington team, who proved
themselves to be, according to
Oregon coach Buzz Summers,
every bit as good as expected.
The loss left the Ducks in sec
ond place for the tournament, and
ended their season 13-7. Fresh
man Russ Childers finished his
first year of varsity competition
with a near record 17 wins, while
Steve Hard and Jim Wilson, both
named to the All-Tournament
team, became the most success
ful doubles team in Oregon history
by upping their three year record
to 33 wins and 14 losses. Hard,
Lau, and doubles player Mike Ig
natius are all seniors.
Summers said inexperience
(only Hard and Wilson have var
sity experience) and lack of funds
have hurt the Duck netters this
year and he consequently has been
pleasantly surprised with his
team’s success this season.
Meanwhile, the Duck women
took third in the Southern area
tournament in Monmouth this
weekend, finishing with 58 points
behind OSU's 66 and Southern
Oregon College's 65.
Oregon's lone champions were
Sue Reynolds and Joan Price who
downed an OSU team 6-4, 6-1 in
#5 singles.
Helen Vozenilek and Tina
Michelson were runners up in #1
and #4 singles respectively, while
the Ducks managed runner-up
positions from Vozenilek and Deb
bie Borchers in the #1 doubles
division, Michelson and Reynolds
in the #2 doubles slot and Joanna
Fong and Anne Thomson in the
#3 doubles s'ot.
Eleven Oregon players will play
in the NCWSA regional matches
in Ashland, May 20-21.
Brooks won’t laugh
at a ‘terrible’ contest
By MIKE MARINO
Of the Emerald
In a post-game interview, Rich
Brooks, Oregon’s head football
coach, laughed as he recalled
how Rick Washut, quarterback of
the Ducks’ White squad in
Saturday’s scrimmage, purposely
fumbled a snap while holding for
a Green team field goal so that his
team might win. The field goal by
Roy Geiger was nevertheless re
kicked with Tom Cafferty holding,
and the Greens eaked out a 109
win over the Whites.
When the conversation turned
to the Ducks’ overall performance
in the intra-squad affair, Brooks
turned quite serious.
He didn't have much to laugh
about.
" “We were terrible,” Brooks
said. “We looked better last
Saturday than we did today.”
Brooks’ main point of concern
was the Oregon offense, and
specifically, the quarterbacks.
With Jack Henderson sidelined
due to a badly sprained ankle,
neither Washut nor Tim Durando
could generate much in the way of
an attack.
“Neither Washut nor Durando
threw the ball well enough to beat
anybody today,” Brooks con
tinued.
Aside from four interceptions by
Durando, Brooks and John
Becker, Oregon’s coordinator on
offense, were disappointed with
the handling of the option. “The
quarterbacks were only looking to
run up the side of the guard, and
not to pitch the ball,” explained
Brooks. “The option was not exe
cuted as well as it could have
been.”
While the offense was sputter
ing, the Oregon defense on the
other hand, earned praise, di
rected chiefly toward linebacker
Willie Blasher. “Defensively, I was
pleased more today than I have
been all spring,” said Brooks.
“And I’ve said all along that
Blasher is the best player we
have, and that he can play.”
Blasher, a JC transfer from
California, teamed with linebacker
Derrick Dale, a sophomore next
year, to hamper the White team’s
option with 18 and 14 tackles re
spectively. “We re not very good
as far as quickness,” Brooks ad
mitted, “and that’s why Dale and
Blasher stand out so well, be
cause they have speed.”
The scrimmage, while bringing
out some of the Ducks’ weak
points, also brought out what
Brooks calls his “sleepers.” Sieve
Kleffner played well enough at
center that both Brooks and
Becker are considering moving
Fred Quillan, last season’s snap
per, to tackle. Tim Overall seems
to be filling the nose guard role
well, and on offense Brooks cited
receiver Ken Page and running
backs Ed Raddiff and Gary Beck.
“We still have some areas to
improve,” Brooks concluded,
“and now we’ll evaluate the
players and see just what the
areas are.”
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