Oregon Daily Emerald Sports Women to go after national invite By SMvf Mims 2<) In addition, seven teams from the east regional, being ployed in Baton Rouge. I.a . this week, will also advance to nationals. Oregon, ranked 24th, is com ing off of its strongest regular season ever as the Dui ks fin ished in the top to at all nine tournaments they competed in The Dm ks did not win nn\ tour naments, but they finished set ond at the Brigham Young and Oregon Stall* invitational*. Thu Ducks finished tied for fourth at the Pacific-10 Confer ence Championships last month, tying their beat finish ever at the tournament. Senior Shannon Mater and sophomore Karly Mills lend the Ducks with 78.2 scoring aver ages. Maier finished second at the Brigham Young Invitational in March and is coming off of an lHth-placo finish at the confer ence championship. Mills boosted her scoring average by shooting 2 to at Pai IDs to finish tied for tilth plate Mills finished second at tin- Bru in Classii in the fall when she plaved as an individual Leigh Casey, a sophomore from San Jose. Cull! . is right behind Maier and Mills with a 78.3 scoring average. Casey paced the team with four top 10 finishes tins sear, including a second-place tie with Mills at the Bruin Classic Sophomore Shannon Hare has finished in the lop 10 in each of her Iasi two tournaments, including a tie for seventh at the Pac-tO championships She shot rounds of 75. 7H and 70 at the conference tournament for her best three-round total in a col lege tournament Hare finished 10th at the Oregon State Invita tional earlier in April Junior Cappy Mack, who has a 79 3 scoring average, will round out the Oregon roster for region als Mack's best finish of the year was at the Stanford Inter collegiate in the fall when she shot -27 to finish 11th Some of tiie top-ranked teams also invited to the nest regional include defending NtlAA i ham pum Son Jose state Arizona I exas. UCLA US< and Oklahoma State The tournament liegins tins morning with IK holes at the !'m son National Golf l.'luh. fol lowed hv one round Friday Plav com lodes with IK holes oil Sat urdav Spurs, Suns prepare for game two PHOENIX (AF) — Alter seeing his Spurs outre bound Phoenix by a wide margin only to lose at the tree-throw line, San Antonio t oach John Lucas is thinking about making some adjustments. 'I may have to look at other combinations out on the floor." Lucas said of tonight's game two in the hest-of-seven Western Conference semifinal. Tuesday night, the Suns played rubber-band basketball, opening double-digit leads almost at will before a surge by the Spurs made it i lose again. Each team had just one field goal in the final 12:12 of the Suns' 98-89 victory. "That was a game that we were in but we were not in." Luras said. "Everything for us was a strug gle; we never had any flow." Phoenix coach Paul Westphul, whose team has now won four straight postseason games, said he was playing the same chess match as Lucas. "They have a lot of versatility on their team and John is a resourceful coach," Wostphal said. "I'm sure they’ll throw whatever they have at us. and whatever they throw, we ll try to fight back. I just hope we have the answers.” The Spurs had more rebounds (48-38) and field goals (38-36) in game one The Suns' vaunted bench failed to score in the first half and had only six points until Oliver Miller and Danny Ainge scored in the final 37 seconds Charles Hark ley was five for 21 for the night and finished with 18 points, and David Robinson of San Antonio had 32 points. 10 reliounds and sev on blocks. And yot the Suns made it look easy just two days after escaping u first-round series with Los Angelos that was streti hud to the full five games and an overtime after the Inkers won the first two in Phoenix. "To dig ourselves out of that hole Now 1 think it's where it's going to pay dividends We feel so confidant Wo feel we can play so mm It belter." said Kevin lohnson, who had 25 points, seven assists and five steals Phoenix held San Antonio's second-loading scorer in the playoffs. Sean Klliotl. to less than half his average with eight points, two in the second half, and Lucas said he was thinking of drastic measures to protect the sleek small forward from the influence of his native state, "I might have to take Sean back to San Antonio and then fly him in for the game," Lucas said "Every time lie comes to Arizona, fie struggles a lit tle bit." Elliott agreed. “I don't know what it is Of all the years I've lieen in the league I've only played two good games here." said Elliott, who grew up in Tin son and played his college ball for Arizona fh* said it wasn't the homecoming that took him out of Ins game. 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