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Oregon's Kristi Okuhara lays down a key sacrifice bunt in the eighth inning of the Ducks 4-3
win over Arizona on Saturday.
Duck softball sweeps two games
from Pacific, ups record to 37-13
By Gary Hartley
Emerald Sport* Editor
Fun in the sun with the Box
ers and a split with the sixth
ranked Arizona Wildcats
marked a weekend of action for
the Oregon softball team, now
.17-13 overall. 7-5 in the Pacif
ic- It) Conference.
Oregon pitcher Katie Wiese
gave tip a lead-off single in the
opener of a double-header with
Pacific: (Oregon) Sunday at
Howe Field, but went on to re
tire the next 27 hatters she
faced in games one and two.
both won by Oregon. 5-0 and
H-0.
)an 1 .arson finished both
games for the Ducks, picking
up her conference-leading fifth
save in the nightcap.
The Ducks slapped 11 hits off
Pacific 's Heidi Trupp in game
one. including a 4-for-4 effort
from Kathy Cray and two hits
apiece from Tracey Simmons
and Sandy Scott.
“We worked a lot on hitting
this week, and 1 can really feel
the difference in my hitting.”
Cray said "1 could see it in
other people too. That was the
main difference (this weekend).
We just weren't hitting the ball
before."
Wiese was at her best, strik
ing out six and giving up one
hit in game one. with four
strikeouts and no hits allowed
through four innings of the
nightcap.
Pacific could manage only
three hits on the day. while
Cray continued her onslaught,
going 1-2 and driving in three
runs in game two.
Oregon, which also stule
eight liases on the day. owned
the third inning in each game,
putting up a three-spot in the
third inning of game one. and
pushing across six runs and
batting through the order in the
third frame of the nightcap to
clinch the sweep
The main event of the week
end. however, came on Satur
day in a heavyweight bout be
tween the fifth-ranked Ducks
and sixth-ranked Wildcats.
In game one of the Pac-10
twin bill, the '(arts scored a
knockout in the seventh in
ning. scoring two runs and tak
ing a 3-1 lead. Hut the Ducks
got up oft the floor and fought
liat k for an eight-inning. 4-3
victory.
The Ducks had opportunities
throughout the game, but the
i hitch hits were absent as Ari
zona held a slim lead through
six innings
The Ducks refused to go
down after Arizona pushed
ac ross two runs in the seventh,
and when Oregon's Julie Cav
anaugh slid under the tag at
home plate in the bottom half
of the inning, the Webfoots tied
the score and sent the game
into extra innings.
Stacey Funderburg opened
the bottom half of the eighth for
Oregon with a single to shallow
right, advanced to second on a
Kristi Okuhara sacrifice bunt,
but was thrown out at the plate
on Kim Manning's single.
Hut on the same play, the
Ducks' Vicki Fry. who had ear
lier singled, advanced to third
on the throw. With only one
out, Cavanaugh's sacrifice bunt
a minute later scored Fry and
the Ducks came away with the
4-3 thriller.
The late heroics sweetened
what looked like a bitter day for
the Ducks.
"We just weren't getting the
clutch hits." Okuhara said.
"And 1 admit. 1 blow it twice.
We had runners in scoring po
sition and couldn't bring them
around.”
Okuhara didn't blow it in the
fourth inning, however, when
her clutch two-out single
sc ored Funderburg with the ty
ing nin. keeping the Ducks in
the game.
lady luck certainly didn't
shine on the Ducks in the
nightcap however, as Arizona
pitcher Cinnie Scheller frus
trated Oregon, holding the
Ducks to six hits after the
Webtoots 14-hit attack in game
one.
‘‘We're disappointed we
didn't get a sweep.” Okuhara
said following a 3-0 Oregon
loss in game two. "We were
psyched. 1 think we re capable
of sweeping teams. We swept
Arizona down there. It's just
mentally tough.”
The Wildcats know what you
mean Kristi. as Arizona
dropped one game to last place
Oregon State in Corvallis on
Friday.
'Cats coach Mike Candrea
said his team is on shaky
ground.
"Our kids aren't there yet.”
Candrea said. "The team right
now. there’s hardly any charac
ter, they’re not hungry, there’s
no excitement, and here they
are right in the middle of a con
ference race and they’re ranked
sixth in the country. A lot of
times, success breeds success,
but it also causes you to be a
little lackadaisical at times.
"With a two-run lead in the
seventh (of game one), we
thought we had things under
control," Candrea continued.
“But the way the weekend's
gone. I've never had a feeling
of being in control. There was
always a worry of something
happening and something that
would open the gates.”
The Ducks will open the
gates at Howe Field next Fri
day. in a home game with Lin
field at 3 p.m.
FIRST GAME
Pacific 000 000 0- 0 1 2
Oragon 01] 100 X-5 11 0
Trupp and Hembree Wiese. Larson (6)
and Cavanaugn Simmon* Zoflner
WP— Wiese (26-0) LP—Trupp- 2B — Oregon.
Gray, Scon, Simmons RBI—Oregon. Scott
(2), Simmon*. King. Funderburg
SECONO GAME
Pacific 000 000 0- 0 2 2
Oregon 106 001 X-8 8 0
Sore naan and MemOrae W«e$e, Larson
(5) and Simmons. Zotlner WP—Wiese (270}
LP—Sorensen 2B -Oregon Scott
RBI-Oregon. Gray (3}. Simmons (2), Man
nfng. King. Scott
Monday, April 17, 1989