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Sports_ Oregon faces the Beavers By Jeff l.ut/ky (M th» Kawrald The Oregon softball team will attempt to end Its season on a positive note as it enters the home stretch of the season with 10 games in five days. The Ducks. 14-28 overall and 1-7 in NorPac Conference play, will play a pair of doubleheaders with Oregon State University this weekend — at Corvallis Saturday in a pair of Nor Pac counting games, and at Oregon field at 1 p.m. Sunday. : : "We set some goals on what we should do earlier this year,” coach Teresa Wilson says. "We picker! out the games we thought we should win during the remainder of the season. It's important to end on a positive note so.we can build for next season.” • = • -* The Ducks should have a little momentum going into the games with the Heavers since they won the first game of a doubleheader with Portland State University to break a nine-game losing streak. The second game of the twin bill was rallied out.' ■ Oregon was scheduled to play a doubleheader with OSU last Saturday and Tues day. but .both games were washed out by rain. The games' on Sunday with the Heavers will lie makeups.. / The rai.noiits may have been a blessing in disguise .as .Oregon got a chance to rest its wound ed bodies after a long tCalifornia trip .' ' "We’ve dieen playing with eight and a half player* .siit.ce we got back frem California." Wilson says. Paige Maks has two stress fractures but. because she wants to play and there’s only a week left in the season, the doctor agreed to allow Maks to finish out 'the season before putting her in a uist. Wilson says With only nine players available to her. Wilson has been forced to juggle the lineup as well as the positions of some of her players. She is impressed with the way they have responded. “They have become oriented to their new positions," Wilson says. “I had to move Kristi Okuhara to shortstop. Christi Long to third, and Susan tJhrich to second. They're playing posi tions they haven't played all year, and doing a real good job adjusting. That extra week has given them a chance to familiarize themselves with their new positions.".. • . Wilson also is iihpressed. wilh .how her players adjusted to: the hardships they faced throughout the'year. -- - 'r. • :-; “They support each'other real well,” Wilson says. "They've been workingespecially .hard., keeping each other up. Thefr spirits/are "high: and they have been super iuppOrtiyoof each*"other.V' - A It hough t he Oucks 'rnay; ha ve- lost some of the momentum they0gained from the victory over PSU. Wilson isn’t concerned ; -• -y ... > "It was nice to get back on the winning track." Wilson says. "We'needed boih mornen tum and rest, but especially''the rest arid a chahce to.heal our wounds.*'; ■ ■■ ■ ' ; "■> Following, the games1",with the Heavers. Oregon will play at 1‘acific on Mpnday'/ at ’PJsl J on Tuesday, and■; against' Western Oregon on Wednesday at Oregon field at 4 p m. in’the.final game of the season ’ " V .-. " -. ■> ■ v■••• ••• ;s. .‘-v The games with (JSlf. however, are the big gest ones for the Ducks. ; ■ ' "Every time we’ve played them it’s been real close." says Wilson' of the' two games with the Heavers. "If a few breaks had gone the other way we might have won. They’re a strong-hitting team and wo want to beat them more than ever to end our season on a positive note." Golfers stand in tie for seventh SCOTTSIJALR, ARI/..— U*d by senior Paul Weinhold. who shot an opening round one-under 71, the Oregon golf team fired a combined foam mark of five-over ,1B5 Id stand in a lie for seventh place after the first round of the Sun Devil Phoenix ThUnderbird Collegiate Thursday afternoon Weinliold's 71 on the par-72 McCormick Ranch Coif Club course ties him for 14th overall, four strokes Itehind co-leaders Ric:h Bietz ami Bill Mayfair of Arizona State. USC All-Anierk.an Sam Kundolph is one stroke back of Bietz and Mayfair at four-under OH. The Ducks art? lli strokes hack of team loader ASU. who liavo throe players in the top nine individually. More importantly for the Dm ks is that they are three strokes ahead of San lose State University and six ahead of UCLA If the Ducks finish ahead of the Spartans and Bruins in this tournament, they can virtually wrap-up an NCAA tournament hid based on head-to-head competition with the two schools this season. 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