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
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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
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