sports
Club baseball: Down.
out. on its way back
By Steve Irvin
Of the Emerald
A golfer was practicing his iron shots at
Howe Field recently. He casually lofted
shots from one corner of the baseball dia
mond to the other, where a man caught
them with a baseball mitt.
Those may have been the only balls
caught at Howe Field this spring. Oregon's
Club Sports baseball team was there a year
ago, posting a 19-11 record on its way to
the school's first winning season since
1976. Despite the team's success, baseball
was dropped from the club sports
curriculum.
To find out why, one must take a more
detailed look at 1983.
Last year, coach Larry Hanson and assis
tant Brian Peterson headed the effort to
bring baseball back to Oregon. The club
team was formed in January 1983 and was
financed by $5,000 in community dona
tions. The players came from campus. No
scholarships. No frills.
There was incentive, though. The Ducks
played against the teams in the Pac-10 Nor
thern Division, which gave them a major
college schedule on a low budget.
The clubbers did well against Pac-10
competition. Perhaps too well. They
played in the Pac-10 North tournament in
Portland and upset Oregon State in the
tourney's opening game.
That victory gave Oregon instant
credibility and instant problems. Oregon
State coach Jack Riley said he wouldn't
allow his team to play the Ducks again.
"We have nothing to gain and everything
to lose," he said at the time.
It was the beginning of the end. At the
season's conclusion, the athletic directors
of the Pac-10 North voted not to play
against the Ducks, relegating them to a
primarily junior college and small-college
schedule.
"They didn't want their programs to
reach the same level as the University of
Oregon," Hanson says. "That's no knock
on club sports, but when you compete
against a team that's got a $5,000 budget
and you have an $80,000 budget and you
lose to them, people are going to start ask
ing questions... I really can't blame them.
Put in the same position, I probably
wouldn't play either."
That left Oregon with an expensive
dilemma if it wanted to play the same
quality schedule — it had to get back into
the athletic department. The clubbers had
to raise the $500,000 Athletic Director Rick
Bay said the school needed to maintain a
stable program.
Hanson, Nike mogul Bill Bowerman and
jack Pyle started "Save Oregon Baseball”
— with the damning acronym of SOB — in
an attempt to raise the money. They never
came close.
Nevertheless, the club team began prac
ticing in October under a new coach, John
Meyer. Hanson was gone, his time taken
by an athletic equipment sales job with
Luby's Sport Center.
"I couldn't make the same commitment
we made last year without the same
schedule we had," Hanson explains. "I
wouldn't ask myself or 24 other players to
make a five, six-month commitment if
they're not going to have a respectable
schedule to play. It's just too much work."
Without Hanson, Oregon's fortunes
were all downhill. The organization that
typified the previous team was lacking
under Meyer.
Dave Miller, a relief pitcher for Oregon
in 1983, says Meyer was lacking the dedica
tion Hanson had.
"He (Meyer) was taking it pretty casual
ly," Miller says. "He missed a few prac
tices. He left early a few times. When we
left to go down to Roseburg (the team's in
itial road trip for a game against Umpqua
Community College) it took us a long time
to get organized. He waited until the after
noon that we were going to go ask Sandy
(Vaughn) for travel money."
Kyle Etchison was the pitching ace of the
club team last year. He went to Portland
State University in the fall, but was
academically ineligible. When he returned
to see the club team in the fall, a lot had
changed.
"I went out there one day and watched
them and everybody was doing their own
thing," he says. "Guys were over hitting
on their own. There was a guy standing
there playing catch and the other guys
were just talking. Nothing was organized."
Club Sports Director Sandy Vaughn says
baseball as a club sport seemed doomed
after Meyer's departure.
"To get a baseball team going within
club sports with a volunteer coach. . . we
just assumed that that would be the end of
baseball in the club sports program."
Enter Bob Rich nond. An attorney and
owner of a comm ?rcial real estate firm in
Eugene, he took the financial reins of a
failing program. Richmond's intention,
like Hanson's, was to bring baseball back
on a club basis at first, with the ultimate
goal of getting athletic department
funding.
"I think there are a lot of players that
would like to be out there. That's what it's
all about — giving the kids a chance to
play,” Richmond says.
Sports shorts
Oregon’s track teams qualified three more
athletes for NCAA competition Thursday mght
at the Oregon State Twilight Meet in Corvallis.
Oregon’s women got two qualifiers Brenda
Bushnel! ran a PR 9 29.83 to meet the NCAA
standard in that event, and Birgit Petersen
qualified with a 9:30.93 in the same race. In addi
tion. Claudette Groenendaal qualified for the
Olympic Trials 1.500 meters with a field-record
4:15 86 clocking, and hurdler Lisa Nicholson will
be in Southern California this weekend trying to
qualify in the 400 hurdles
On the men s side, Oregon's Harold Kuphaldt
finished second to Stanford's David Frank In the
steeplechase, but his 8:4070 was still good
enough to qualify him for NCAA and Olympic
Trials competition.
Other Oregon winners Women — Kay Garnett
(14.10). 100 hurdles; Julie Hilsenteger (57.46).
400, Sharon Johnson (35 11 Vi), triple jump Men
— Brian Crouser (272-8), javelin; Chris Bolden
(24-9%), long jump.
Gregg Patterson and Croy Cochran two
outstanding state of Washington high school
golfers, have signed letters of intent with
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