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Moos in hunt for athletic director post Kris Henry {>#00*’' 0#% £ffwtaki It's now two down and two to go m tho search for Oregon's now athletic, director Dili Moos, current athletic s dim tor at the University of Montana, toured the Oregon campus on Wednesday and became the sis ond of four finalists fur the job to meet with Oregon'* search committee l)r Eve Atkinson, athletic director at lafavette College, was courted by Oncgon on Monday while the remaining twoi andidates. Fresno State athletic s director Gory Cun ningham and Arizona State associate athlet ics dins tor Uennnn Frazier, have yet to con firm when they will interview at Oregon. The Ducks have been without a full-tcme athletic director for the past tl months stmt! Bill Bymit left for Nehrask.i Moos. 4 i Iwy.nt his nthietii s career in MOOS !0t)2 iis uaistant nthlw it s director at Washington State, and served as the school's associate director from 1988-1‘»<K) Hu has been at Montana since I'mo. but it is Moos desire to return to the confereni u that saw him earn Ail Confereni e offensive tackle honors as a three vt-itr lutterman at Washington St.ito 'I think thwro arw may bo two to four things that qualify nit* for this position," Moos said I'm from the Northwest ami I appn* talc what we hast' in the Northwest Secondly. I competed in this conference as a student athlete so I know what it takes as a student athlete to compete tn the Pm JO Conference In addition, he has experience as an administrator in the f\u 10 with first hand know led JO’ of gander equity issues, tost containment and compliance in the I’m to “This program !at Oregon) is very similar, as far as the success of the various pro grams to the one I inherited at Montana. Moos said, “and vet we found a w n to take it just a little tut further and before it was all over we had It cnnferem »• championships Turn to MOOS, P.uje 10 MAH* ML J <«* t '•«**] Oregon catcher Rlssa Perryman stopped the Beavers' Angela Coop er from scoring a possible game-winning run In the seventh Inning Oregon takes two in Civil War softball Mark Me Tyre Offfon Oa*y t met mi Great plays. bad tails, lower’ ing hits and ground halls Wednesday's softball Civil War at Howe Field had it all, as the Ducks swept a doubleheader from the visiting Oregon State Heavers As a fan, you i ouldri t have asked for any inure excitement than what unfolded between the intrastate rivals Under cloudy skies, the open er saw 21 combined hits from the two foes, an Oregon State baserunner gunned at home plate. had calls being argued by Oregon head coat h Tami Brown and on top of all of that the game s outt.ome was dm idod in extra innings Through the first four innings of the contest, neither team was able to get a runner across homeplate as Oregon piti her him hampfer and the Heavers' I leather Reynolds relatively had no problem with the batters they had faced However, in the bottom of the fifth the Ducks utilized a leadoff single by Kathy Stahl and sn< rifi< •• hits hy Angie I.eKov ami l.isa Preston to post a 2-ti lead I hi) Beavers rotumoil the favor in the top of the sixth when Andrea Talcutt hit a two run double over Oregon right fielder Mi«i Koke bringing m leadoff hitters Shelley Boringhele and Amy Werner During the bottom of the sev enth inning with the si ore •still tied at two apiei e fireworks erupted at second base between Brown and field umpire Karen Meats after Stahl was called out trving to steal the base Kathy Stahl was totally safe at second base and she called her out." Brmvn said "I know that I've got to stay more calm hut fro getting really tired of it For the way I felt, 1 felt like an erupting volcano so I stayed more cairn than what I was " Unable to get a run across hi the seventh, the two teams went into extra innings. In the eighth inning. Kampfer Turn t SOFTBALL, P.i j>* 10 Many surprises, a lot of work for Williams in 1995 It s no se< ret that the 1994 1995 school year a! the University of Oregon has been arguably the most exciting and most eventful of all-time A major bowl, two NCAA basketfiall bids and three, count 'em THREl-i major coaching sit nations in those sports have put Oregon on the map once again in the world of intercollegiate sports — but it hasn't come without its share of hard work. While fans of Oregon athlet ics have lieen able to sit back and soak in the new-found, well-rounded success of the school, those whose job it is to oversee ail aspects of the athlet ic program have had a busy year to say the least I.liter Dan Williams, vice president for administration/ interim athletics director’over all good-luck charm. When Williams announced back in August that he would be taking over as athletics director. Chris Mm it seemod logiuil enough Rushing to fill the position was not the best answer in the eyes of the administration, especial ly with footlmll just around the c orner at that time Williams is quick to point out that, much like the sporting world itself, filling an adminis trative position as important as athletics director also has its season. And given the tuning of iirooks' announcement. it would have been difficult to attract many quality candidates during the "off-season ” “It was very unlikely that we would b« able to attract the cal ib»r of candidates that wo have," Williams said, adding that he has been impressed so far with the people up for the job "It wasn't that we weren't in a hurry, we )ust had to wait for the right time “ That right time is now as the list of four finalists for the posi tion has been compiled and a goal of early May has been established by Williams for [>er manently placing someone in the office of the athletics direc tor. Williams would like to see a new athletics director at least by summer so the new person would have time to get his/her feet wet. You can’t call Williams a short-timer though, because ho hasn't exactly grown tired of his added post, “I’m not anxious to get out of |the AD job), but I'm anxious to get an athletic administrator appointed to take advantage of the momentum.” Williams said Perhaps Dan Williams is the luckiest guy in the world, or maybe he |iist was in the proverbial "right plai n at the right time." but even Williams himself has to admit that it has been an unusual year. “I've been providing over sights lor the athletics depart ment for 11 years now," Williams said. "I.ven with that amount of experience, I would never have guessed this would happen." But this iiu redible year threw a considerable amount of added work and responsibility his way maybe a little more than the friendly Williams was expect ing. "To be per let tly candid a 1 hi 111 it. it was harder making it work with two jobs than I expected," Williams confessed, saying that being away from the office and Turn to METZ, Page 1? April 20. 190S Volume Usuc I 'r> Payne Hires first assistant coach CORVAl LIS (AP) New Oregon State basketball coach Eddie Payne has hired St John's assistant Geortje f niton as the fast member ot his staff f niton was head coach a! South Caroi-na from 1 986 to 1991 and was an assistant at St John s for the past three seasons He gamed a reputation its an atjyress’.ve recruiter as top assistant to Bobby Cromins at t icKi; t 1 is h Iron 198 1 to 198<> At (ioor ; a let he t . ■ *• ts M r» Price and John SaMey f triton had an 87-6? record at South Carolina and twice took the Gamecocks to the NCAA tournament Payne was hired April 7 to repfaco J>m Anderson, who decided to retire when it became clear that his con* tract would not tie renewed after four straight losing sea Montana says good bye to Kansas City . h t - • , , ■ , . i , j, w it V The Goose hangs ’em up COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo (AP) Goose Gos sage whoso f u Mancfiu moustache ana 95 mph fast ball intimidated hitters in the 1970s. has called >t a career, alter ?? years Gossage retired at age 43 He said Tuesday he feels like he could still help some major league teams but real izes he may have run out ol last chances Last year, he was a setup relwl pitcher with the Seattle Mariners Te.jm officials assured him he would have a |Ob when stoking players returned
