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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1995)
Confident Ducks open NCAA tourney Kris Henry OrWfpcm CX&ty tfumrukj The Oregon women's golf team will be looking to capitalize on its recent hot streak when the squad takes to the links todnv at the NCAA Championships in Wilmington. N.C Making their third straight Nil AA appear ance, the Due ks are quietly confident of fin ishing in tft« upper echelon of the elite 1H mam Held l ie' tournament foetures in holes each day for the 72-hole event, with play concluding on Saturday "We re playing better and iHitter and we're very prepared for tins tournament.” Oregon head coach I.ara Mack Tennant said "With the experience we have on our team, we should have s good performed a Our goal is to finish in the top H) and 1 think that's real istic.” Fast season. Oregon finished t4th in the prestigious tournament. hut ,i 1 i eyes .*r*• looking for it dramatic improvement This confident fooling stems from the Ducks' fourth -place finish it the West Regional Tournament two weeks ago and the e\|M>ri micr of Oregon's five core golfers "For us to finish fourth in the Wes! Regional was a real confidence boost bet a use we know the teams on the Fast Coast aren’t as strong in i tnn pari son as the teams on the West Coast.*' Tennant said fast finishes in NCAA tournaments have shown that the West is the much stronger regional ansi If the makeup of the field is any indica tion. the same holds true for this year's championships Kleven of the 1H partic i pants hail from the West Regional, including two time defending national c hampion An zona State and coregional champion San Ins*’ St.it.> Other entries front this West Regional ana Stanford. Tuvan. Washington. Util.A. Art Zona USU. Oklahoma and New Mevtt t> Kntries from thi> Hast Regional include regional champion Wake Forest. Turman. Duke, South Carolina. Georgia, North Car oil an and Indiana Competition will iw »■<! at ttie Landfall Club in Wilmington, N l whii h lanies well for the Dot ks The Oregon women played at the par 'J ti.Ofil yard course in Novemlwr at the NCAA Preview In that appeorint »*. they i arded a llr> t and finished lied for tilth I >**sa ritual by Tennant as a tough but very si oreahlc course, the Pete Dye designed I and s< ape could play n considerable role in Turn to GOLF, Page 10 I Hooinson wins MVP, now wants NBA title SAN ANTONIO (AP) — David Robinson wasn't ready to cele brate after winning the NBA's most valuable player award Tuesday. The San Antonio center said he's too busy focusing on the Spurs' playoff series against Houston and last year's MVP Hakeem Olajuwon in the West ern Conference final "We’re in the middle of this (rattle and it s going to be hard to celebrate anything right now," Robinson said. “This is an incredible honor and I don't think it's going to sink into tu\ head for some time " 111 a league where centers have agaiti emerged as the dominant players, the 7-foot- 1-inch Robin son was the most consistent as lie led the Spurs to a league-best fi2-2P record lbs teammates felt the award was a foregone con clusion. "If he wouldn't have won it. that would have been a big sur prise," Sean F.lllott said "The NBA would have bad the legiti macy of Don King Productions " Robinson, who averaged 27 fi points. 10.B rebounds and 3 2 bhx ks [Mir game, l>eat runner-up Shnquille O'Neal of Orlando by a wide margin. Robinson received 73 first-place votes and 901 points, while O’Neal got t2 firsts and 005 points from a nationwide panel of sports writ ers and broadcasters Utah's Karl Malone was third, followed by New York's Patch k i.wing, Houston's Hakeem Ola juwon. Charles Barkley of Phoenix. Chicago's Scottie Pip pen and Utah's John Stockton Robinson said learning to deal with high expectations has helped him got to the top of his profession. “Carrying the team, is a whole Turn to ROBINSON Page 12 YEAR OF THE DUCK RENAE FEGENT As a newcomer to the Oregon women's basketball program, the Australian transfer took center stage for the Ducks throughout the season and during the NCAA tourna ment Fegenfs ability were matched by few in the Pac-10 conference In her first season with the Ducks, the junior was the league's top shot blocker (2.3) and fitth-best scorer (17.2). while fin ishing the season at the eighth spot on the runuic school's career resection Its! with 63 blocks, She also was Oregon's leading scorer in 12 o! the 27 regular season games including a 31-point performance in only her second game with the Ducks Fegent will be returning for her senior season this fall in hopes of her team pro gressing past the first round of the post-sea son tournament. May 24, 1995 \ olumc 'M\ Issue IN) Belle candy bar on the market I t'Vf LAND (AP) Hr<;i;e Jackson had a cancty tus? named lor them N' >w st i d> «'s ieve .i• • 1 Indians outfielder Albert Belie M.i «’v s (') ■ h 11 ales ■. ••• Tuesday introduced its new i onloctton at ,i news i onlm e allend Hi*, absence tailed io dampen (ho enthusiasm ol o", .iis of the . andy and u »* cream i ompany Wo re happy and proud to name our new candy bar after Albert sa d Biff Mailey. provident oi the company We ()*>( dod trial s.n< t> Aaied , ' ' (>s the Pa- s. I alien, «ve would make It a Chocolate crunch bar :, . : . i $1 each a! Ma s f ! stores in northeast Ohm t liter it will be distributed to other area retailors and made available across the country through baseball card and mernora bilia dealers Rough choice for CFL*s Rough Riders OITAWA(AP) Oerruit Robertson. a defensive end at Mr.s v. pp state 1 tfv ate t • 180. flu-d foi.'owing an auto accident late last year Wofd el hit; death, howev or never readied the Ottawa Rough Rider;, They picked Robertson in the fourth round ot the Canadian f ootball League's dispersal dratt ot players from the detune! Las Vegas Posse Robertson was the Ottawa team s fourth pick Although fie had been dead tor months, hit; name was never removed from the draft list I don't know how it hap rxmed," Ottawa coach Jim Gitstrap told the Ottawa Sun The league didn't know until we told them And we didn't know until a week ago when wo couldn't tmd him " Robertson's name was de, creetly removed from the team's roster as! week, the Sun said Kelly traded to L.A. Dodgers CofttCK fiofdof Roberto Ko< iy obttit^od by Montreal yn^ Atlanta last month, was dealt by the f. xpos to the Los Angelos Dodgers as pad ot a multiplayer track) T uesday Lett-handed relieve' and minor league prospect Joey laschen pined Kelly in the deal, in winch the f »pos acquired outfielder Henry Rodrigue* and veteran inlieider Jeff T readway from Los Angeles
