SPORTS
It’s not hard to ignore March madness in Sequim
FROM THE
SIDELINES
ti OAVI CHABSOMMtAU
I spent most of mv spring break in
Sequim. Wash , basieally out in th<•
hoonii's. about two hours west of Seat
tle
I was visiting mv girlfriend. who list s
in a housit that overlooks tlm Straits of
Juan iff i in .1 A beautiful setting, but a
■.filing deprived of fable I’V. a tug ( its
iifWspapi'r and ms jot k frirnds 1 hit lat k
of all tin'M’ aspeets that am usually so
pros a lent in ms lift' led to one thing
1 did not know a damn thing about
what ss.is going on in the world of sports
In soars past, mv typir.al spring break
lor ss.is svati hing thf NCAA lournamnit
and playing g.uni's of three on-three svitfi
my friends
Tins year was ti different story, and I'm
not t omplalnmg one fat
( a insider these fat Is
I learned about the Mike I yson sen
tencing from my girlfriend's mom
I s.iw Christian I.aetners last-second
bu/ver-heater against Kcntui kv t*i*< aiw I
just happened lo turn on thi> TV with 19
seconds' It*It in overtime ns ! was getting
ready to go out
As a sportswrlter. 1 sometimes feel oh
lig.iteii to follow sports whether I want to
or not Hut I figured I was on a break,
so I mill as well t.ike a break from sports
as well
Hut being in Seipnm didn't leave me
much of a i nolo' am wav
As vour base i itv bov from Portland,
I'm used to getting mv dailv serv ing of
sjiorts shoved down mv throat liven in
Hugene, It's easy to stav atop the happen
ings in sports
But in Setpilm, where half of the lot .11
television stations are Canadian, you
really have to make an effort to find out
what's going on in sports
I didn't make that effort
Instead of watching Indiana run all
over Pin It) champ UCLA at the West
Regional, I watched my girlfriend at < 1
dentally run over a cat at 40 miles per
hour
Instead of watc hing Mike- I vson go to
the slammer, I watched a giant yak slob
her all oyer my window at a game (arm
In See)uim
When 1 returned to Portland and then
Kugene, my friends filled me In as to
what fug events I had missed Tor in
stance. I know the Pinal Four is Indiana.
Duke. Mm htgan and the Reds or. I
mean Cincinnati
My point is that ms trip to Sequtm
showed me that (list because I am a
sports writer, th.it doesn't mean my life
has to revolve around sports, as king as
there's something lietter to do
Iiut believe me, now that I’m hack .it
si hoed, you can lie sure that mv IV will
be tuned to P.SPN, TN V. 'I'US or CHS
And don't worry, the cat liv is I
One c at who didn't survive was men's
basketball com h Don Munson
Does anyone really think athletic; di
rot tor Hill Hv rne is going to lie able to get
anyone in here with any sort of reputa
tion7 laiok at Munson He c ante in as one
of the most highly regarded coaches
iirmiml and nn» will tie lui kv to land a
job at tho !<>« al junior high
This is not a knock on Monson. it's a
knock on history Oregon has not been
looked upon as a winning basketball
school for more than 20 years No t om h
can expect to build a solid program out
of Oregon high si hool standouts
Monson gave it a whirl with Terrell
Brandon, Jordv Lyden, Orlando Wil
I i a in s , j e r r s' Key n o Ids, A n t o i n e
Stoudamire and others But the problem
is, no blue chip player from another state
is going to come to Oregon because it's
no fun being the star of a (i-21 team
Don't expect Oregon to get a widely
known com h The only coach that's go
ing to i onii’ here is one who has nothing
to lose In coaching the worst team in the
I’ac 10 Basii ally . a no-name
Firing Monson silences the boosters
for a i ouple of years until the next couch
falls to make something out of nothing
Din t' C.harbonnt'nu is it spnrt.s reporter
for the Emerald
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Ducks drop 10th straight,
record dips below .500 mark
The Oregon softball team
dropped its 10th consecutive
game with an H-2 loss Sunday
to Ohio State at the I'onv Tour
nament in Fullerton, C-alif
The loss knocked the Dur ks
out of the tournament with an
0 ') record Orison's season re
1 ord falls to It 17
The Buckeyes scored five of
their runs in the first inning,
and two Oregon pitchers could
do little to stop tile attai k Ten
halters came to tin- plate In the
inning and pli ked up four hits
to go along with four walks
him Manning provided the
offensive power for the Ducks
pounding her fourth home run
of the season
On tlie opening day of the
tournament, Oregon dropped
its sixth and seventh con sec u
live games, a 10-0 loss to fifth
ranked I’NtA and a 4-1 doci
sion to t tail later in the dev
t he losses dipped Oregon s re
cord to below atH) tor the first
time tins season
file Dm ks proved to lie no
malt li for tile Retails, as ! NLA
w .is able to jump on Oregon
right from tlie start All nine
l \I.V hatters look .1 shut at tie
plate in both the third and
fourth innings
filings were a little closer for
the Dm ks against l Mail, but the
extra inning game finally- ended
in the 1 nth inning when tlie in
ternalional run rule went into
efftx t
Mamie McCall provided tin
lone bright spot for Oregon, go
mg four for five with four sin
gles against l ’I.ill
Oregon dropped its eighth
straight game the next day ill a
.i-2 loss to Western Illinois in
the tourney
Westerwinds pitcher Veroni
in Wilson had a perfect game
going until the bottom of the
sixth Inning when the Due ks
got their only hit ol the game
Anna I’oore lixi off the bottom
of the sixth lor the I Jut ks with
.1 double
With two outs the next four
halters would receive four free
passes that enabled the Ducks
to si ore their two runs, and Or
egon entered the seventh in
ning with a one run lead
l hifortunatelv for the Ducks,
though, a mistake turned the
tide After Western Illinois tied
the game in the final inning, a
wild pitch by Kachelln Taylor
allowed the vs Inning run to
score
l av lor, w ho i arne in on relief
in the game, has lost her last
sevon dei lsions
fourth ranked Fresno State
played with the Ducks lor sev
en full innings before burying
them with eight runs In the
eighth inning of Oregon's 8-1
loss
Freshman Angie Barnes, who
scored the Bulldogs first run,
hit a two-out, three-run home
run later in the inning, the first
ol her career.
The Ducks hope to end their
losing streak Friday in a 1 p rn
doubleheader against Oregon
State at Howe Field.
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