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SPORTS Dreams of post-season fade as injuries mount (FROM THE SIDELINES BY JAYSON JACOBY] S c ii n B u r vv e 1 I M alt LnBounty. Mindin' Adams lull Cummins Danny O’Neil. Mar cia I’rice. Eric Castle Molly McGrath. Those are just a lew of the Oregon athletes who have missed substantial playing time so far this season due to various injuries. The complete list couldn’t he printed due to space Hint i lions. The final effect of this injury parade can’t be tallied up until the end of the season, but there is no doubt that Oregon sports have suffered greatly as a result of this curious affliction that h is plagued Duck athletes since last summer. The Oregon football team r.n tered this season with high hopes after two successive sea sons that culminated in howl .berths.. The Dui ss are above ,'iOO at :i-g, hut a disappointing loss to Utah and a poor show ing against IJSC have prevented the team from being where it spooled to fie at this point Injuries to several offensive and defensive starters have err '.airily boon important factors in (iregon's tw 0 losses Harwell, tin' Die ks' leading usher who led tile l'acitic-lO Gonferoiico alter opening wins ■gainst Washington St.Or and Texas Tech, missed hotii Ore gun losses with ah ankle injury After iiurwell s return in the Ducks' win over New Mexico Stale Saturday, Oregon is i 0 with the sophomore tailback in the lineup At various times during its losses to Utah and l 'SC, (iregon also was missing several defen sive sturtefs, including line hacker joe Harwell, safety Trie Castle and jell Cummins, who is likely out for the rest of the season with a leg injury And now, starting quarter back Uannv O'Noll will miss this weekend's important showdown with the 1.1th ranked California Colden Hears Starting defensive end Matt l.altountv. Oregon's all time leader in quarterback sacks, may also miss tins Satur day's game O'Neil dislocated Ins thumb in the first quarter against New Mexico St, ami La Bounty sprained a knee The only good Hews from .Saturday's injury re port, whir h is becoming i us tomarv after each Oregon game, ts that Laflounty did not suiter ligament or cartilage damage, winchcould have required sur gerv, 1 wouldn't mini! V tins week.” Oregon Coat h Rich Brooks said, but there is a lot o! swelling ami soreness in the knee The Dm ks W ill need their lie fonse in top form against the powerful Cal oflense, which is averaging 45 points .1 game The volleyball loam, with e\ I’rvone returning from hist vi-.ir's team ami a strong class ol mtoming Iti'siimnn, was also looking forwarii to post-se ison play this tall Hut injuries have taken tllltir toll on (aiai.il ta li', tiregorv’s s.pia.l as wall Junior Man in l’i■ wa . the first to go down, suffering a broken finger in ,i pm season practice Price returned to a. tuill last weekend. but riot i ' fore tlio Pin ks Inst three of. tour Pan 10 games Thun Oregon’s captain, se n lor in oldie Mia ker S’ 1: idee Adams, sustained a stress true: turn in liar ankle in tin- midst ot tile Ducks’ rise to a spot in the national volleyball polls Ad a ms made only a token app, ance 1,1st weekend against Washington and is doubt!. r this weekend's games at 1 a! and Stanford Then tiie director of Oregon's offense, senior setter Moil;, St Gnitii, injured her back in pi at tit i' before Iasi weekend s loss es i.) Washington ami Washing-, ton State Consequently. thUui k.s have dropped five of thi-ir first six i’.u 10 it inti-sis. after jump ing out to u 1(K! non-confor unci- start With tin- injuries to O'Neil, LuHountv ami McGrath in last weekend's action, the situation doesn't appear to be improving Duck, coaches and f.ms can only hope it does before the end of the season If the injury trend continues mill h longer, the athletic de partment may have to consider hiring the voo loo priest who claims to have removed an evil curse from Tampa Stadium be lore last Sunday's Buccaneers game Tampa Bay responded in winning its first game of iho season What was that guy's nunc i ' UO rower brings home gold; rugby team still undefeated University ju nior Allison Holier returned to Hu ge n a w i t ii t vj o gold medals from the U.S. Rowing Masters National C h a m p i o n s h i p s 2 7 - 2 H in Austin, Huber, a coxswain lor the Se attle Yacht Club, said a group effort gave her team the win ning edge, "It was totally the team." said Hobcr, a pre-journalism major at the University. "The whole team went home fueling good." And why not? The Seattle club garnered two bronze, a sil vur and three gold medals dur ing the two-day competition. Heber, also a member of the University Club Sports crew team, was on two of the gold medal-winning txiats The Seattle Yacht Club, which recruited Huber from the University at the beginning of lO CLUB SPORTS held Sept Tex. tho summer, won numerous events at the national cham pionships last year, too, Heber said. The University Club Sports rugby team remained undefeat ed Saturday, boating Southern Oregon 24 7 at Ashland Richard Dunn, Brad Niulson, Greg Hunton and Rich Miller all scored for the Ducks, who blew the game open after a slim 11-3 halftime lead The win im proved Oregon’s record to 2-0 The Oregon ’ft' squad also won Saturday at Ashland, top ping Oil' 22-4 1 he ’ll Ducks are 2-0. The women's Club Sports soccer team won 1-0 at Linfield on Saturday. The Ducks will next see uc tion today at 4 p m as they host Western Oregon State at the South Bank Field Spokane Community College visits Eu gene on Saturday for a 10 a m matchup with Oregon at the South Bank Fiold. Leo Durocher dead at 86 Loo Durochor isn't In base ball's Hall of Faino. Tom Lasor da and Don Drysdalo, among others, say that's wrong "Loo was my idol," Lasorda said of Durochor, who died Monday in Palm Springs, Calif., at the ago of Bti. “Ho hud an electrifying personality and he was tiio most aggressive manag er 1 have ever seen. "Ho had an outstanding per sonality and he was groat for the game of baseball and de serves to bo in the Hall of Fame," the Los Angeles Dodg ers munugor added. “I toot his number (2) because of the love, admiration and respect 1 had for him. Wo lost a wonderful man." Drysdalo, a Hall of l amer who pitched for the Dodgers while Durochor was a coach with LA in the early 1900s, then opposed him when Duro chor managed the Chicago Cubs, said he belongs in Coo porstown. "Loo was thu typo of guy you could listen to and learn from Just talking with Loo taught mo a great deal about the game," Drysdalo said "Whether you wore playing bridge or gin rum my or bowling, no would al ways talk baseball with you "He was just a wonderful man and baseball will miss the man.He belongs in the Hall of Fame, but if he over gets into the Hall it will be like so many other deserving people it al ways seems they get in after they dio." Durooher played for 17 sea sons, almost all as a shortstop, with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Cincinnati Reds. St Louis Car dinals and New York Yankees, thu team ho broke into baseball with in 1925. Ho managed the Dodgers. New York (Hants, Cubs and Houston Astros be fore retiring in 1979 with 2.00B wins, sixth on the all-time list Ducks place 16th out of 18 after strong third round finish Tliti Oregon women's gull team finished 19th ii! the Ping Lady Sun ldevil (iullegiate (iulf . ournamunt, Jield !.inI weekend at Arizona Statu. Thu Out ks si urtui 9?>7 for 11>111 pi.iff out of lit schools ut Arizona Statu s Kurstun Course Arizona won the tournament huiuiily w ith an 881) finish, and San Joso Statu was second with a 908 Arizona I mi through thn first two rounds and shot its host round Sunday, extending tliu mar gin between it and Sun Joso Statu 1 ho Wild cats shot rounds of 300, 291 and 283 Other Paid fie* 10 Conference teams finishing in the field included USC (4th), Stanford (7th). Arizona Stale (8th) and UCLA (9th). Leigh Uornung was Oregon's top finisher in the individual race, totaling a 237 for a six way 4.trd place tie. San Jose State's Lisa Wal ton won the individual race witli a 2 IS, and Arizona teammates Dobhie 1’arks ami Annika Suri'iistjin wore jnnI a stroke off, tying (nr set ond at 2 lti Walton Ind through the lirst two days and hit under or at par all three days on the par 72 course Other Oregon finishers in the tourney wen; Star I a Yamuda, shooting a 2d8 for -tilth; Shan non Mater, shooting a 240 lor 5Hth; harlv Mills, shooting a 2-12 (or tiitrd, and Nancy draw ford, shooting a 202 for li;trii. Belli Manc/ak, playing as an Oregon individual, shot a 2-17 for 7tith Muior's third-round score of 7f> w-.ts tin; Ducks' ties! round of golf over the weekend The Dm ks shot their teum-fiest round of goll on the last day to pull them out of last place Oregon, which was last after the lirst two rounds, shot rounds of 220, 112-1 and 41 t Weasel’s World Kraig Norris (jcc© 8i>*C . mi A£/or n:« -«ooAr s iT[Nt«A«r ? *!*£. *w4r ^ *» TO* 1 SO MITMj It COAK W** 9vat’ 'MTS at 11 co tou and Sni HJtii w<u 3rsaj&s iWIEfu. WT K vSK 5**n Ofll KX* « 00 LUNCH S WITH »h iwW TO -u»ft CAM*U5 (HTO » .#xf C0C*St «T £ 00 TK. «(W ■XT, UBOUTlON *(>A* .'A”' f. wia Mv*0f. rouR »cict / 'GO OUT T> 0*1 f/>. tXjU Xv£ T i*l * TOTAU' £X«S».nT WCE. 3HE£3^ ' I AhC rwcs AT J OO Oscar the Freshman Neal Skorpen ■•A. V^.C[ • iM i> I A.N • • ‘ • T ta f H i u tMWh/ltJG r r *. A •• raw • [ ny — > 7 w y t* f Afnr # m n t j **" VV// P Ut rtf P , on ' >i ifU >Mt HU , fJT ii ’ III y nil > fJ ) /;'i f<l l I* I A* A ! fj. . 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