Civil War opens softball season By Jayson Jacoby Er-x-f.u! Sports Reports' Tho Oregon softball team will open Us 1992 season with a bang Saturday afternoon, tak ing on Oregon State in .1 Civil War contest scheduled fur 1 p m at Howe Hold Tho Ducks, tied for 20th in the preseason NCAA rankings, return 10 lottorwinncrs from last year's 29-2'! team than fin ished fifth in the Pacifn It) Conference with a -t lti record Oregon coach Taml Brown will be counting on four return ing seniors to provide;.offensive punch as well as leadership The Ducks are a voung team, with seven .fresh-men and seven sophomores joining the four se niors Oregon's top returnee is se nlor shortstop him Manning, who set <1 school record with six home runs .1 year ago 'The : adomlr Ali Amrri. .in also hi! at a solid .104 Hip True t'v Simmons, .mother re turning senior and an all-con lerence flick lust season at catcher, hit 25.fi with 12 hits and 11 doubles in 1491. and joins first baseman Anna Poore l :)Vi i-i Kill) and outfielder Mamie M l ill ( I 17. At. hits) as the team's other most expert eni ed players Oregon also has some exc el lent young players who have extensive intercollegiate expert ence Sophomore c atcher and out fielder Laura Schmidt, an all league player last year; hit 112 with 12 KB! And lei low sopho more Kac hello fay lor, who compiled a 12 1.1 pitching re cord with a 115 LKA last year, will be looked upon to provide a lot of the burling duties Another returning sopho rr. ore p 11 i h e r is \ .11.1 s h .1 Dumiiski. who was 9 H m 1941 vs ilh .1 1 79 l.'K A Brown, who has .1 *>4-52 re ami entering her third sr.ivon ■it Oregon. said tin1 1992 thicks need to avoid some of the un forced mistakes of hist vtHir’s team We need to (day as .1 temn ,md not he.it ourselves like we did hist veur." Brown said Teams are going to have to heal us II we jilav to our poten tial. we re going to he a lough team After Saturday s home game, the Dm ks start more than two weeks of road games with an appeurunce at the l.NS.V tour nament in Las Vegas. Niiv Ore goo's first game in the 11 -team tournament wInch ini hides five ranked squads will he against the host Rebels at 10 a lie Trniev. Nov 2H Cold Ducks take on Huskies this weekend By Doug Carter Emerald Contributor A lot can happen in a short time, ami although till! Oregon club hex key team lias not played lor long, the players have decided to i hangc their philosophy concerning ice time The decision, made Monday night during a team meeting, will go Into effect this weekend when the Cold Duc ks host league rival Washing ton for two games at I.ane County lc e on Saturday at (> p.m and Sunday at H) a m Hut Oregon's new philosophy is ai tually not new at all Rather, it is a reversion bac k to the poll! v installed at the beginning ol this year When head coach Mike Sobol sti p| i 1 h January, bis philosophy of playing a limited nuttt her of lines was c hanged by new coac b V me ters Peters' policy was to skate exi-ry! -C .■ , .a! amount of ice time every game I lie Du ss re spondee! positively in his i o.ic lung debut. im| sively sweeping the California Culden it. irs m two games Hut the lolloyy mg weekend, Oregon welcomed San Jose State to tow n and j I■ l more like a gra cious host than a determined ho. key team The Dm ks yvi :.t; iy> I and it. to ' id during the two games Subpar pi'rformuns us sm h us these lend to magnify themselves when a given group of mill vtduals is given a lot of tune to think about thorn And during the last throe weeks of idleness, the Ducks have hung up their h e skates and dusted off their thinking tuques It was Monday night that the Dm ks dei ided to return to the disi mutilating ice time philosophy Oregon will play three lines ol forwards lor most of the game rather than the four lines that have shared ice time since Peters took the helm "When Peters < ame in. the players kind of let it go, to ease the transition a little." captain Scott Hrown said "Kverybodv who spoke up was in fa \ or of the i flange Hut at the same time, it gets dif ficult to revert bark (Some guvs) can't help but have some hard feelings (about the dei isioti! 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