Daily Emerald
Softball team awaits opponent in NCAA tourney
Ducks top seed in Midwest Regional
By Tracy Sumner
I meiald Sports f (hlor
Thi' 1 ••‘to NCAA Soft !m 11
Championships liegin todas fur
(hogon nun h the same svas last
I rul,is did Thu I)m hs smII In
waiting
l,.isl work ,il tills time Oro
Kim (:tri-21) was waiting Ini an
all Imt assurod hid to the
\( AAs It linalls i min1 Snndas
night with tho nows that the
eighth ranked Dinks would ho
the top seed in this wookend's
Midoast Regional in ( nhimhiis
()hio
Todas tho team will wait
again This time it will ho to
see w I10 ( hogon will phis in its
first NCAA tournament nainc
llii' other Mideast Region
teams Ohio St,tie and Kent
State start play today at noon
I I)T, with the loser to fa< e (Ire
gon at d |) m The I links then
play the Kent Mato Ohio Stale
winner at t p rn A fourth game
will he played Saturday with a
possible fifth added if nei.es
sary
On paper. Kent State appears
to he the kind of softball power
that could lilt tile Ducks' 1*00
\( A A appearam e short
The unranked (iolden Flash
es captured the Mid American
i onlereru e title this year with a
.’(i t conference rei onl and an
overall ledger of til 7
Kent Stall' s rt'i or<i wasn't
filled the kind of i.ompetiluin
Oregon endured this season
(none of the team's -17 games
was against anv team i urrentlv
in the nation's top 20|. hut the
f lashes' team statistic s i ould
portend .1 tough i hallenge lor
the 1 fur ks
l ive Kent Stat*' players hit
better than tot) on the season
on the wav to the team's tilt
average
The Flashes' top hitter is ju
mot outfielder Pauline Man
riee who c arries an impressive
■I lf) average into \'(7\A plav
The > foot II Maurii e also led .1
halam ed Kent State att.u k w ith
fra hits 17 runs and five triples
this season She also chipped
m with Hi RUN. a home run
and Hi bases on balls
(lati her him Henzler hit Ulh
this season and led her team in
RHI with 20 and in doubles
with lit
Kent State scored its runs
from all over the held this se.i
son In addition to hitting for
average, they have power (12
home runs), thev run (til stolen
bases on 77 attempts) and !he\
also hit with dis< ipline (157
bases on balls .is a team)
Solid, if not spectacular,
piti hitig am hors the Kent State
defense The team IIRA of 0 71
is led bv sophomore Darin
Seegrist. who had a 27-7) record
on a 0 ha KRA this season
Seegrist also exhibited good
control, striking out 00 while
walking 57.
()hio State, which was co-Big
Ten Champion this season with
a 17-7 conference record,
didn't have the glittering re
cord of Kent State {28-28 over
all). hut a quit k glance at the
Buckeves' schedule shows
them to be a team of qualitv.
I.ike Oregon. Ohio State had
to overcome .1 tough schedule
to gain its hid to the tourna
ment In addition to facing Big
It) rivals Iowa and Indiana (rat
ed 12th and 18th, respectively)
four times each, the Buckeves
played ranked teams such as
Cal Berkelev (won i-2), Arizo
na (lost !-()). Arizona State (lost
■1-1) and Oregon (Lost <>-2), all
of which will be placing in the
\( A A tournament
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