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Sports
Club baseball team hopes
to avoid injuries this year
By Gary Henley
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After finishing 7-12 last year,
the Oregon club baseball pro
gram is looking to improve
itself both on and off the field.
Manager Mark Lucich. in his
evaluation of the team going in
to next year. says. "Basically,
it's just a wait and see game
We'll have a number of good
players, but we never know
who's going to be around when
the season starts. "
Lucich said injuries were one
of team's problems last year.
"We only had one catcher
during the season, then he had
back problems so we ended up
with no established catchers.”
he said. The team will begin the
new season with three catchers.
couple of football players that
played for us." Lucich said.
The Oregon club baseball
'There were some rumors last year about
the Geld. They (the Athletic Department)
were saying that we knew about the
renovation and that it was coming — they
just didn't tell us when.’
— Rob Searfus
"We had a whole range of
ball players. We had a handful
of good ones, like Chris Schultz
and Pat Marsh. There was also a
team, which is largely made up
of ex-high school players,
begins its season in March, and
continues through May.
Second baseman Rob Searfus
is optimistic about the upcom
ing year.
"We’re going to have a good
team. I'm really looking for
ward to next season.” he said.
"We had a lack of pitching last
year, but now 1 think we have
some good pitchers that will
help out.
"It’s hard to get good pit
ching." said Searfus. who is
entering his second year on the
team. "Most of the good pit
chers usually go to the com
munity colleges or university
teams.”
Lucich. in his third year as
manager, said the name of the
game is pitching. "We have
some potentially good pitchers
on this team. One of the big pro
blems. though, is that you need
to play a lot of ball games to tell
who the good players are, and
we don’t play many games.” he
said.
Searfus, who also acts as stu
dent coordinator of the team,
has had a busy off-season rais
ing funds for the team.
"Most of the fund raising is
for the traveling. We'll be play
ing some road games in the
Seattle-Tacoma area, and we
might be going to California to
play one," Searfus said.
Another important issue is
where the team will play its
home games next year. The
current renovation of Howe
field has left the baseball team
with no on-campus site to play
home games.
The Athletic Department
recently approved a plan to con
vert Howe held into a two-field
softball complex for the Oregon
softball program. Searfus is
unhappy with the way the situa
tion with the field has been
handled.
“There were some rumors
last year about the field," Sear
fus said. "They (the Athletic
Department) were saying that
we knew about the renovation
and that it was coming — they
just didn’t tell us when.”
A load of dirt was dumped on
the field before the Stanford
game last year to begin the
renovation.
Asked where the team will
play its home games next year,
Lucich replied, “at this point
we won't have any home
games. I'm in the process of
scheduling the away games
now, so we don’t expect to be
playing at home next year.”
The team played only five
home games last year.