OregonDoiiyEmerM Sports Softball team to open at home against No. 1 UCLA j Oregon 5-4 following tourney appearance By Steve Mims Emerald Sports Reporter The Oregon women's softball loam will f.n e No 1 UCLA in its homo-opening don hleheader Sunday Indore hitting tin1 road for the rest of March. The Ducks are 5-4 lifter winning five out of seven games during a road trip to Cali forma last w eekend The Due ks won four of their first five games in the Capital Clas sic in Sacramento Indore losing to San Jose State 2-1 in the tournament quarterfinals f ollow ing the tournament the Ducks added a game against St Mary's and they beat the Gaels 13-4 The Ducks season got off to a slow start w hen had weather forced them to move many prnctu es inside and i am el an exhi bition game against Oregon State Oregon o|>ene<i the season w ith two losses at a tour nament at IJNI.V, but had weather there also caused some games to tie canceled Freshman Kathy Stahl has led the Dm ks from the leadoff spot with 12 lots in 21 at li.its and is twitting 571 Stahl also leads the team with five runs, three doubles and has the teams only stolen base Catcher Laura Schmidt is hatting 300 and has supplied the power for the Dm ks Two of Schmidt's six hits have lieen home runs and she leads the team with five RBI's "Laura has played very well for us." Brown said "She should have made the nii-toumnnient team in Sat ramentn Kathy has lieen phenomenal, she is our spark Lea mm Brooks is second on the team ‘I don't think we will have as many hits against UCLA ... but I believe everyone in the lineup can do the job.” Tami Brown. softball coach with a 1IH and Trina Salcido is averag ing 263, but nobody else is lulling above* 21fi The rest of th<* !)ti« ks have only 11 hits in 110 ;i!-b,its "We pounded the ball in our Iasi game against Si Mary's." Brown said "I don't think we will have ,is main hits against I'Cl. A as we did against St Mary’s, but I Iw*Iii*ve everyone in the lineup can do the job.” The Bruins (1 :t-2) lost their first game of the season 2-1 at home against (dal State Northridge before going on a 12 game win ning streak The streak was snapped after a 1-0 loss to (ail Poly Pomona, but the Bru ms recently twgan a new stmak with a Ki ll win over Pomona The Bruins are led on offense and pitch ing by I.isa Fernandez, who is twitting .500 and has an FKA of 0 ;tH Fernandez has 23 hits in Aft at-bals including two doubles and two home runs. On the mound Fer nandez is 8-0 and has given up only 20 hits in r>f> innings while striking out HI Iwitters No team has scored more than two runs against the Bruins in 15 games The first game of the doubleheader begins Sunday at 11 00 at Howe Field Fd# PhO*u Oregon's Rachelle Taylor la expected pitch tor the Ducks Sunday when they face No. 1 UCLA at Howe Field. Women to face Cal, Stanford down south li Ducks hope to end disappointing season on a positive note with two games in California By Steve Mims (met a Id Spons Ropoooi The Oregon women's basketball season which began with high hopes and was filled with disappointment will come to an end this weekend with a trip to the Bay Area for games against Stanford and California. The Ducks opened the season ranked 27th in the nation and were Turn to WOMEN. Page 13 Men try to stay out of basement □ Oregon coach wishes Pac-10 tourney still around By Dave Chartoonneau EmoiakJ Sports Editor The Oregon men's basketball will face Stanford tonight and California Saturday, as the long 1992-93 season comes to an end for the 2-14 Ducks. For head coach Jerry Green, the season was over a long time ago After a 7-f> preseason mark. Oregon took a nosedive to the basement of the Pacific-10 Con ference with 11 straight losses "As far as making it into any postseason play," Green said, “Our season was over a while ago. Since the midway point of the season, we've never really had a shot at postseason play." It is for that reason Green wishes the Pac-10 had a confer ence tournament. While teams like 13-lh hast Carolina are earn ing trips to the NCAA tourna ment. the Ducks are ending the season with hopes of staying out of the Pac-10 cellar. When Green was an assistant at Kansas, the Big Eight had a conference tournament. He said the postseason tournaments are beneficial because they give teams like his an outside chance at continuing their season. "1 miss the tournament atmos phere." he said. "I'm not saying we could win two, or even one tournament gome But a confer ence tournament gives teams like us a renewed excitement in a sort of 'second season.' East Carolina won their conference Turn to MEN'S. 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