.Sports.
Ducks down Huskies; gain World Series berth
By Gary Henley
Emerald Sports Editor
With their backs to the wall,
the Oregon softball team came
up with two clutch wins over
Connecticut Saturday in Am
herst. Mass., to win the North
east Regional playoff tourna
ment and clinch a spot in the
eight-team College World Se
ries. beginning this Wednesday
in Sunnyvale. Calif.
Down one game to none to
Connecticut in the best two
out-of-three series, the Ducks,
playing in front of u sparse
crowd (74 paid attendance),
rose from the dead in game
two. pulling out a thrilling,
come-from-behind 3-2 victory
in 10 innings. A 6-0 Oregon
win in game three clinched the
series and sends the Ducks
(53-16) to the Softball World
Series for the first time ever.
Oregon coach Teresa Wilson
took part in the 1983 College
World Series as a pitcher for
the Missouri Tigers and now is
the first person to return to the
Series as a coach.
"We’re excited about our
chance to go to Sunnyvale.”
Wilson said. "Connecticut is a
very good team, and they
played very, very well. We got
the good hits at the right time."
Oregon, which finished the
season ranked fourth in the na
tion. now faces eighth-ranked
Cal-Poly Pomona in the first
round of the Series. Wednesday
at 6 p in. at the Twin Creeks
Sports Complex. Top-ranked
UCLA starts things off when
they face South Carolina at f>
p.m.
The Ducks. 2-1 losers to Con
necticut on Friday, fell behind
by a 2-1 count in the tenth in
ning of game two when Hus
kies' designated runner Sharon
Arnold scored on Nina
Rennhard’s two-out double.
Fighting for their playoff
lives, the Ducks rallied.
Stacey Funderburg, who be
gan the bottom half of the tenth
at second base under the tie
breaking rules, moved to third
on a bunt by kristl Okuhara.
and scored on a Vicki Fr\ sin
gle to tii> thr score
Junior Os Ouison then
sliced a one-out single down
the right field line, m oring Frv
with the game-winner
After coming so close to a
two-game sweep. Connecticut
catcher Betsy Burnham showed
her team's frustration by going
after Frv after the Ducks' junior
left fielder had crossed the
plate with the winning run
Burnham was quoted in an
Associated Press story as sa\
ing "I think she safely got in
before the lag But I swung |to
make the tag) just in case I said
to her you guvs won. what do
you want to fight me for'"'
Fry gave a different version
"She was quoted in the pa
per as saying something that
wasn't true.” Fry said I start
ed walking away, and she
swung at me with the ball and
hit me in the back I turned
around and hat by (Gray) had
knocked her down The
benches cleared and that was
it. It might have been frustra
tion.”
"It was a do-or-die situation
for us." added teammate
Ioanna King "We all knew that
this might be our last game,
and that we might never have
the chance to make it to Nation
als again.
"It was a very intense
game." she added "We knew
that something was going to
happen, and that there would
be a fight When Vicki scored,
that kind of set it off.
The win tied the series at one
game apiece, and from there,
the Ducks' i nnfidence soared
as Oregon opened a quick b-0
lead through four innings of
game three
Oregon pitc her Katie Wiese
(41-11) tossed a two hitler at
the Huskies, striking out three
and walking none
In the first inning. Coulson
punched a leadoft single up the
middle, advanced to se< ond on
a |ulie (lavanatigh sat nin e,
and moved to third when Cra\
followed with .1 line single to
right-center
Kim Manning executed the
squeeze, bringing in Coulson
<iihi reaching safely in the pro
cess king moved the runners
up with another hunt, and Tra
< r Simmons' two-out grounder
got through thi' hole and into
right field, scoring both Man
ning and (ir.iN
The lug first inning gave
Wiese a three-run cushion, and
the freshman hurler coasted
from there, working si\ strong
innings Indore giving wn\ to
|.in I-arson. who i losed out the
inning, game and series
"Katie was her normal self
today." Wilson said "She
seemed to get stronger as the
day went oil
Seven Ducks had hits on the
day. im hiding Simmons who
broke out of a mini-slump by
driving in three runs
"After the brawl broke out (at
the conclusion of game two),
we wanted to go out and totally
humiliate them." King said
"We wanted to lie a classy team
about it though and tieul them
between the lines where it
counted
"They (Connecticut) really
wanted to go to California
bad." she added “They were
even saying that They have a
good team, but we felt they
were playing over their hearts
We felt like we deserved to will
it. after all the hard work we've
put in this season, so there whs
.1 lot of pressure on us after we
lost the first game
Hefore Oregon's three game
till with the Huskies, the l)ui ks
defeated host Massai husetts
-’•0 on Friday. as Wiese tossed
a six hitter, striking out two
and walking none lor the win
Wiese in four games over the
two days, piti hed -!H of tile _’0
innings plaved. throwing 27 t
pitches (204 strikes)
"It s ev iling to lie going to
the World Series Wiese said
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