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Remaining AD finalist visits Oregon FRAZIER Ducks rest in fifth at tournament Chris Metz Despite extremely windv t on ditions. tint Oregon men held onto fifth plai t' in third-round action while Arizona State fur ther distanced itself from the rest of this year's Pacific- H) Con ference (•olf Championship t on tingent in Richland, Wash Winds forced unusually high st ores on Tuesday, allowing lit tle i liattge in the standings, tl ifornia once again claimed sec ond plat e after three rounds with a 1104. 20 shots off the lead Arizona (llOti), CSC (0 12) and Oregon (It 15) round ed out the top five after 54 holes "lilt* scores were as high today as they were low vaster day,” Oregon head < uach Steve Nosier said Despite carding a 79 on Tues day. |oel Stoc k continued to pace the Ducks with a throe round score of 219, (ailing into a three-way tie for ninth in the individual race Arizona State's Scott Johnson continued to lead the wav with u 210 after firing a 1-over-par 73 at tin* Meadow Springs Golf Club California's Charlie VVi contin ued to mirror Johnson, holding firm in second place, just two strokes off Johnson's pace with a 212. Oregon's Ted Suavely had the second-lowest score of the day with a ?T The Beaverton native tame back to the pack with a 73. giving him a 220 going into Wednesday's fourth and final round to help keep the Ducks in contention. “We shot high but didn't change positions,” Nosier said. "I thought maybe someone besides Arizona State would shoot better, hut we re in the thick of it relative to the field," Play concludes today in the 72-hole event. Kris Henry Ongor> Otnljt f’-nmMa After 17 years a! Arizona Stair, the Sun Devils' associate athletic s director has (its ided ti is lime to move on Herman Frazier. the last finalist for the athiet u s dirts tor position at Oregon, toured the Univer sity on Tuesday Of the four finalists. Frazier is the lone applicant not currently active as an athletics director Hem ever, the 40-vear-old does not see his absence from the head position Is -l proidein “iThe athletics dirts tor post) is otiviously going to he different than the things I've done in the past,' Frazier said "Hut. fur the most part, I think d von ! ilk to tie- poop!*- i! An/ona St C.- i!;,•■, U d; tell you tl lot of things stopped nl my desk "They will tell you that I have the i apai ity to make delusions on all types of issues he d finan cial. hiring or Firing " His association with Arizona Slate began as a three-war letterman on the tra< k and field team from 1975-77. Frazier was pari of the Sun Devils' NCAA Championship team in l‘)77 and was an NCAA champion in the tv-tot) meter relay in l't ’ti and the 400-meters in 1077 He moved up the Arizona State administration hierarchy after graduation, maintaining the dire* tor assistant direr tor post for athlete fat liities events from 1070-H4 iriutier then Ihh attie assistant director of athletii s for one year before moving to tfie associate iithlolir s diret tor position ill JOHS I hiring his time in Tempo, Aria . Frt/mr s.ud he has fxs oine h quainter) vr ith tfie athletics directors ill the f’at ilii It) (amferem e ami witti Oregon ill general He is the chairman of tfie championships committee for tfie Par -10 t amferem e and a mem fan of tfie league's budget committee "Obviously. I could have probably left Arizona Slate a long time ago,” Primer said "One of the reasons why 1 stayed lot Arizona State! is when I tlul take that plunge and brant h out to U* onto ath loth s dim tor. I wanted to he sure f had the total Turn to FINALIST P.i i- 10 I Oregon will get the bats going again today as the Ducks take on the Beavers, hoping to get back to 500 Beavers next up for Duck softball Mark McTyre I In; Oregon softball team is looking to bounce bin k against thu Oregon Stale Beavers I oil a v tn Corvallis after No. 1 rank ml UCLA ended the Ducks' si\ game winning streak Monday The Civil War douhleheadei will conclude an Ildav, 12 gtitne road trip for the Dm ks (2 l lS overall, 0-12 Pm 10) Their ret ard nun bed the 500 mark for the first time ill over two months During the winning streak, the Dm ks upset No 1 1 California, sweeping the twin bill with buck to back 2-0 vie lo ries "Overall at Cal our defense realty came around and I rma Salt ido had u hot hand at third." Oregon head coach Tami Brown Turn to SOFTBALL. Page 10 Volatile guard given leave by Rockets HODS'! TIN (AP) • The Houston Rockets placed Vernon Maxwell on an indefinite leave of absence Tuesday, saving the volatile guard wouldn't return to the court this season The team would not elaborate on why Maxwell was put on leave or say whether the guard will tie paid for the rest of this season Maxwell, who played only 16 minutes (luting Game l of the Rockets' first round playoff series with Utah and missed (lame 2, did not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press ' Wo want only the Ix-xt for Vernon, and we under stand that this is in his ties! interest." Rockets vice president Bob VVeinhauer said. Houston, attempting to defend its NBA title, is tied 1-1 in its best-of-5 series with the Jazz. Maxwell argued with couch Rud\ Tomjanovic h after Came 1 and complained of a hamstring pull Friday He was sent beck to Houston for treatment Saturday, just before the Rockets' HQ-128 viclory m Caine 2. Maxwell did not attend practice w ith the team either Mondav or Tuesday, and the club said he was receiving t rent men t fur the hamstring There has fawn widespread speculation, howev er. that Maxwell's injury was not severe enough to keep him away from prnc tic e The Roc kets have declined comment on Maxwell's health Maxwell has had problems both on and off the court since punching a fan in Portland m lehruan I he NBA suspended him for 10 games, and before he returned, the Rockets traded forward Otis Thor pe to the Trail Blazers for guard Clyde Drexler Then last month. Maxwell and Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon were diagnosed w ith iron-defi ciency anemia. Both players missed eight games. About that time. Maxwell liegon to express his displeasure about losing his starting job to Drexler. "In the hack ot mv muni 1 was frosltated Maxwell said last month. "But I don't want to c ause any more turmoil at this time I just want to finish up the season and then just get out of here With Maxwell gone. Houston will have to con tinue through the playoffs with only 11 players on its roster NBA rules prohibit rosier moves after postseason play begins May .1. 1995 Volume ‘#». Ksuc I 11 Shenanigans mar home opener for Detroit Of moiT (AP) r*H) sma-'-.est crowd lo attend a 1 ig«rs home opener tn 23 years booed Coot Fielder, threw objci and repeatedly ran on the field as the Clove land Indians rooted Detroit tt i Tuesday Before the game began, magrv! /ml schedules onto the field They then delayed the action ■ and toilet paper tnd ans rrenter Iwtder Ken ny Lofton contained in the fifth " my after what appeared to be a got! ball was the ,w» t he pub'n address announcer asked the crowd to stop, but to little tn the mid- 1980s. the Tigers closed "... bwa< -iers As Detroit was corning to bat in the sixth, a young man Ciiinbed over the tail near the Indians dugoui and dashed across the lieid and over the toll field screen And a man and woman both dashed onto the field White Cleveland batted in the seventh Others followed as the game wore TODAY IN BASEBALL ■ 1936 - In his major league debut lor the New York Yankees, Jut; DiMagyio had three hits in a 14-f> rout of the St Louis Browns. ■ 1959 — Detroit's Charlie Maxwell hit lour consecutive homers in a doubleheader sweep ol the New York Yankees, 4-2 and 8 2. at Briggs Stadium. ■ 1980 — Ferguson Jenkins ol the Texas Rangers became the fourth pitcher in major league history to win 100 or more games in both leagues. Jenkins beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 at Arlington Stadium Cy Young. Jim Bunnmg and Gaylord Perry are the other pitchers to reach the milestone ■ 1986 Don Mattingly became the sixth player m major league history to hit three sacrifice Hies m a game as the Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 9-4. I Ut IIA1D
