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Ducks collect 3 hits, 2 losses against OSU By Allan Lazo Or Um kmxrald Behind the strength of their pitching game, the Oregon State University Beavers swept a double-header from the Oregon women’s softball team. 6-0 and 6-0. Sunday afternoon at Oregon Field. Joan Harvey, who pitched a full seven innings in the first match-up. recorded 13 strikeouts against the Ducks, in cluding eight of the first nine Oregon hitters. In the end. the senior held the Ducks to only one hit. Harvey also retired 18 straight hitters before walking Lesley Stine in the bottom of the seventh inning. With Stine on base, the Ducks’ Kim Heddinger collected Oregon’s only hit, spoiling Harvey’s chance for a no-hitter. “We got a little bit behind (their pitching); our bats were too slow.” Oregon coach P.J. Harlin said. "Once we would catch up and make contact, it wasn’t enough, it was Just a lit tle bit too late.’* The Beavers knocked in four ■ of their six runs during a second inning in which they brought eight hitters to the plate. During . the rally, freshman outfielder . Tracy Holloway collected two rbis. " . ; ■ In the first game. Oregon pit-. cher.Sony Schroeder gave up nine hits while, striking out two • Beavers.and walking two. ; ; In the. second game. ’things. ' didn't ' change much "as .the • ’ . Ducks managed ’only two hits. ‘ - while the Beavers opened.up>n• early ..lead, before' burying Oregon with four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning for the 6-0 rout. During the Beavers’ fifth inning rally, they reeled off five hits in a row, including back-to back triples by Erin Capps and Harvey as OSU brought home four hitters in a row. But it was pitching again that keyed the OSU victory. This time around it was Karen Schoonover retiring the first eight Oregon hitters, and 13 of the 15 she faced. Sharon Tackett also pitched two relief innings for the Beavers and gave up one hit to clinch the shutout. ' Heddinger collected Oregon’s only hit off Tackett, while freshman outfielder Jo Garcia found the one hit against Schoonover in the top of the third inning. Misfortune also struck the Ducks off the field, forcing them to pitch Schroeder in both games. In her second seven inn ings, she gave up seven hits, again walking two and striking out two. ’’We had one pitcher declared ineligible (Cindy Garrett) on Friday and another pitcher (Susan Voeller) with a pulled hamstring, so Sony had to go at it, and she just isn’t ready for that yet,” Harlin said of her sophomore pitcher from Chur chill High School. The two games were the season-openers- for Oregon, 'although they won’t be record ed as league losses'. Meanwhile, the Beavers moved 'to, 4-6 this .season, and Sunday's-.secrind' win byjQSU, marked the" 200th’ career, win for. Beaver 'coach • . Ellen Margo!js.- V • Photo by Kirk Hi rota Oregon State University's Karen Schoonover slides into home plate safely, while Oregon catcher Christi Long waits for the throw in the first game of the Beavers’ double-header sweep of the Ducks Sunday at Oregon Field. Sports Shorts Former Oregon men’s basketball coach Howard "Hobby" Hobson will ap pear on the ABC televsion morning news program. Good Morning America on March 20 between 7 and 9 a.m. • • Hobson was the coach of the. 1939 men’s basketball team. Duck golfers win tourney The Oregon golf team, led by George Daves’ second place Overall-finish, scored a 13rStroke victory over San Jose State University for the team title in the Northern California-Pepsi Inter collegiate golf tournament in Stockton, Calif., Saturday. The Ducks won the meet with'a 870 total as the team combined for 296 strokes on the final day, while SJSU could only score a team round of 296 on the final day and ended up in second with a 883 total at the Elkhom Country Club in Stockton. Three Ducks, Gerry Nor quist, Croy Cochran and John DeLong, tied for sixth place individually. with 219 ' 'Qotd Jluck■ uuttv tyirnl CxxonA,!" Study on a full stomach... FREE DELIVERY • 484-2799 COUPON $150 OFF Large/Giant Pizza Not valid with any other offer • Coupon good thru March 22, 1985 COUPON $15° OFF Large/Giant Pizza Not valid with any other offer • Coupon good thru March 22, 1985