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Baumgartner bidding for national title By Steve Mims Oagor' 0»*y (mataid Renee Baumgartner is one of the main reasons why this week'* NCAA Women's Golf Championship is in West Linn, and why Oregon is one of the 1H teams that qualified for the event. However. Baumgartner is try ing to put those emotions behind her and focus on win ning USC's first NCAA golf championship. Baumgartner was a part of Oregon's women's golf program for six seasons before departing for the head coaching position at her alma mater prior to this season This year's NCAA Champi onship is special to Baumgartner because she placed the bid hack in 1 990 that brought the tourna ment to Oregon Golf Club. At the time, Oregon's women's golf program was only three years old and Baumgartner was in her first year os full-time coach, but she convinced the NCAA to ven ture to the Northwest for the first time. "Oregon is the farthest north west the woman's tournament has ever been," Baumgartner said. "It's also the first time in 10 years it’s been on a private course. so thorn's two unique sit uations." The NCAA was loary of the Baumgartner N o r t h w «> s I Ihk atis«* they want at least two sc hools that qualify to be within 500 miles of the site, Baumgartner saul "I told them Stan ford and San Jose State are near the boundaries." Baumgart ner said "And I told thorn, Wo’ll be there'." It was a bold prediction from n coach whose team finished seventh out of nine teams at the previous year's conference championship, but the NCAA listened. Baumgartner lived up to her claim, lending Oregon to the NCAA Championships for the first time Inst year When Baumgartner left for USC. her sister Lara Mack took over the head coaching duties, and led the Ducks back to the NCAA Championships this sea son. With one sister coaching the team, and another, Cappy. playing. Baumgartner remains an Oregon fan. "1 love the Ducks." she said "I think ! was more worried for Oregon at regionals than l.arn was But I told my team that at nationals. I'll have no men v I hope Oregon finishes right behind us " When Oregon was awarded the NCAA tournament site. Baumgartner planned to play the role of party hast this week, but the benefits at CSC were too tempting to turn down "USC is probably the only school I would have left Oregon for. she said. "I feel goo*I about the job I did at Oregon, and I felt like wo accomplished a lot. 1 wanted to go somew here where the weather is good and the finances are better, which gives me a better shot at a national championship." Yet returning to Oregon for the NCAA Championships, a tournament that signals the Ducks' birth onto the scene as a national contender, will tie diffi cult for the former coach "It's hard My sister might want to kill me because of the work she has to do," Baumgart ner said "It will be more diffi cult once I'm there." Baumgartner lists ht<r t«>ain ns one of four teams that should contend for the national title, along with Arizona State, San lose State and Stanford The Trojans played well in the spring, finishing in the top throe at four conses utiva tournaments before falling to sixth place at regionals use: is the most veteran club at the tourney with three seniors including (ill McGill, who had sis finishes in the top 10 this year Junior Jennifer Hiehn. who's second on the team with a scoring average of 70, won tile Pacific- to Conference Champi onship Inst month. "We've put ourselves in con tention to win NCAAs.'' Baum gartner said "My team is ready to play and I'm going to trv and help us do that " Baumgartner listed Oregon as the team that could be the biggest surprise of the tourna ment "1 think Oregon will finish in the top JO and that will blow some people away," Baumgart ner said "They are playing a course they are familiar with The pressure is off them now that they qualified, and they have nothing to lose " Wilkins gets an invitation to Olympic Festival freshman guard Konya Wilkins will represent Oregon at this summer's U S. Olympic Festival, USA Basketball announced Friday. The four, 12-man teams will compete in St. Louis, Mo., July 2-5. Wilkins will play for the East team, coached by Dayton's Oliver Purnell. The Olympic Festival takes place July 1-10, with basketball beginning July 2 All preliminary rounds will be played at the Missouri-St. Louis campus, while medal round games July 5th will be contested at the St. Louis Arena. A 5-foot-10, 160 lb. point guard, Wilkins helped the Ducks improve in the Pacific-10 Conference standings in his ini tial collegiate campaign by set ting school freshman assist and steal marks. Named Oregon’s most improved player, Wilkins was named to the all-freshman team by league coaches. Besides being among the league leaders in assists, steals and three-point percentage, the Los Angeles, Calif, native added 11.5 points and 3.3 rebounds per game He tallied 142 assists and 51 steals in 27 games. Eligibility for selection to the Olympic Festival was limited to graduated high school athletes who have not yet entered their sophomore year of college eligi bility. The USA Basketball Men's Collegiate Committee made the selections. Oregon's Ted Snavely shot a 1-under-par 71 in the final round Saturday to finish in an eight-way tie for 31st place at the NCAA Men's Golf West Region Championships at the Tucson National Golf Club. IJNLV shot 849 to win the tournament title by 15 strokes over Arizona State and Fresno State ASU was awarded second place by virtue of a better fifth man score than the Bulldogs Arizona shot 866 to finish fourth, two shots ahead of Stan ford. UNI.V's Edward Fryatt shot 68 in the final round to seize the individual title by three strokes over Friday's leader, |oe Acosta of Fresno State Fryatt finished the thruo-round tournament at 207. Gilberto Morales of UN'l.V took third place at 211, one stroke ahead of Pepperdine's Todd Andrews. UC Santa Bar bara's Kyan Mitchell, Arizona State's Todd Deinsey and 00 OFF Foot long Sub lUM WU i SUBSHOP 4 1225 ■ ALDER 345-2434 m Will UTKP's Ryan Hietalo Andrews and Hietala quali fied ns individual entries fur tho upcoming NCAA Champi onships in Me Kinney. Tex on June 1-4. Qualifying as team entries are UNLV, Arizona State. Fresno State, Arizona. Stanford. UC Santa Barbara, San Jose St . Oregon State and New Mexico Seniors Kelly Blair. Sara Wil son and sophomore Hi»k Cantwell were honored as Ore gon's top student athletes at its annual awards dessert Thursday afternoon. Blair, a defending NCAA track and field champion us well as first team academic all-Ameri can. was awarded the Emerald Athletic Trophy as the Universi ty's top senior student based on outstanding achievement in the fields of academics, athletics and citizenship. In addition. C^antwull was the recipient of the Higdon Trophy as the school's top sophomore student-athlete while Wilson earned the Jackson Award as the athletic department's top senior female competitor. A two-time Pacific-10 Confer ence heptathlon champion. Blair has accumulated a grade point average of I H<) in business management and established thu oonferent e meal record in the heptathlon with 5.989 points a year ago The Prosser, Wash , native proceeded to post a school record r>,t) 38 points in winning last year's national col legiate meet before finishing fourth in the USA Track and Field Championship Cantwell, who bus accumulat ed a t 35 CPA. posted the fourth-fustest time in the Pac-10 this year in the 1.500 meters at 3 4t> :t() The former Jesuit high school standout also completed his first collegiate cross country season last fall as the Ducks' sis ond district meet finisher (12th) and third NCAA finisher (55th). 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