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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1995)
YEAR OF THE DUCK CAMARA JONES Reluming afte* a redshirt season spent in Ecuador. Camara Joruss has been a key to the success of the 1995 Oregon women's track and field team. The splendid sprinter reclaimed her Pacific-10 Conference 400-meter crown last weekend and is ranked among the top three runners in the nation in her specialty Jones is also a key contributor in both relays this season, anchoring the 4*100 and Tuo-ik MCTvnrT^*'' !*• i 4x400 teams to national prominence A two-time All-American. Jones has also been selected as a two-time first-team acad emic Pac-10 honor ee Besides dominating the 400 meters, Jones ranks fourth on Oregon's career 100 meter chart and ninth in the 200. The sensational senior will have her Imal opportunity to claim an NCAA championship when she takes to the track next weekend Oregon’s slow start puts team at No. 11 Kris Henry Die (begun women s golf team opened the first round of the N( A A Wunitm s (loll (iltampi unships on Wednesday tied fur ! tth after« anting a 107 in VVilm ington. N ( lilt* Dm ks tn< seven strokes Imhind No B Nortli ( nrolimi but as the season has shown, they have not typically b»s>n a strong opening-round team Oregon has played the majority of its poor rounds in tournament openers and then used the remaining rounds to make a < barge to the top Play ■ iiiiluuii”, through Satin day as the golfers take to the links for 1H holes fill h dav Senior Shannon flare paced the women s team with a two over par 74 in the opening round of the 72-hole tournament Hare is tied for 2tst phu n in the imli vidual i ompetition while Ore gnu's Karls Mills and Susie Kofi both shot 77s to tie for "list Arizona State, the two time defending national champion, jumped into a two-stroke lead over sis,ond plat e Son Jose State by < ardmg an even-par 2HH Indi ana Is Just three strokes off the pai e at 2*11 and Wake I urrst, the hast Regional champion, is six strokes h.n k at 2*44 for the fourth slot Both Arizona State and San lose State tied for the West Regional crown two weeks ago. with (begun claiming the fourth position San Jose State's Viheke St nil srud and Wake f orest's Laura Philo are tied for the individual top sfiot after eai fi unksl a Ihrw under par t>W at the Pete Dye designed course, Wednesday 's opener marked the third-straight year the Ducks have competed in the 1H team NtlAA tournament, with Oregon placing 14th last year. Houston rockets past Spurs, continues dream drive SAN ANTONIO (API — David Robinson got ihtt trophy Hakeem Olajuwon got the game. And Houston is rockctting toward a repeat trip to the NBA Finals Olajuwon. the NBA’s most valuable play er a year ago, took over (kmc 2 of the Western Conference finals in the third quar tor Wednesday night, then got the help ho needed down the stretch as the Rockets completed a Texas two-step over San Antonio tOB-96. Using a dizzying assortment of moves. Olajuwon made O-of-12 shots in a 19-point third period. He Finished with 41 points and 16 rebounds as the Rockets head back to Houston with a 2-0 lead in the best-of-7 series. "You can see the excitement from the players believing in each other," Olajuwon said. “We believe we can do it again ” Kolwrt Horry, who hit the game winner in Houston's 94-93 victory in Game l. made five 3-pointers, two tn a row late in the fourth quarter, as Houston pulled away after the Spurs had rallied from a 13-point third quarter deficit to take a brief H2-HU lead Otajuwon scored 31 in the second half, in what, after a slow start, turned into a classic matchup of the MVi’s of the past two sea sons. Robinson started the game l-for-5 but came buck to score 32 and grab 12 rebounds He scored 14 in the final quarter Clyde Drexler scored 23 for Houston while Horry added 21 {joints Horry pointed to the play of Drexler for the Rockets' strong showing at this stage of the season. "The addition of Clyde has been phenom final lor us." he said "Hu's given us thi> drivt) cause ho doesn't have a championship ring yet." Dot Rivers added Hi for the Spurs Sean Klliott scored 12 on 4 for-12 shooting San Antonio's Dennis Rodman played just three minutes in the second half, fin ishing with four points and eight rebounds After it was over, he sat on the court long after the game ended before walking slowly to the locker room The Spurs, the team with the Imsl ret ord in the NBA at 02-20, lost their third in a row at home for the first time this season They were 33-8 in the Alamodomo in the regular season. No team has come hack from 2-0 to win the Western Conference finals Only 11 teams have rallied from such a deficit to win any series May 25, 1995 \ oluilu" ‘Jfl, IwtlC I#! I Nelson completes men’s hoops roster I tat Oregon men's basket bati program completed its 1t)9T> recruiting >. ' > IVI w9h the sign • >) of t.i f(X)! 9 torward/eentor Jon.i’' <>'■ Noi >' ' ' sli l i < '.h:h ry (jreon annount ed Wednesday . H<gh Sc hoof star loci his team io the Cif Southern Section Division III iiile and runner-up •••a**; tier <«s by aver eg rig 19 points t;> rebounds and 9 1 bfocKed shots per game '.Jonathon >s a very athletic and skilled big men who is a groat shot blocker * Groen 1 I I S' i'U i i if Ji i immediately to our program : i'ii*!:' •, mi Ne!«,fm was i so considering Iowa Slate and Long Beach Stale beloro Casting hts Sol wilh Oregon Noisi in joins live others who have .good letters ol intent with the Ducks since last November Sanders not guilty UN<:iNNAfl (AP) Cincinnati Mods Oulliekior Dew Sanders was found innoc on! Wednesday of ail charge*; related to .i dispute wu'h a stadium sin unty guard alter a gun*> Aug 8 .Sanders me! with the jury nunutus after the venix t was returned The jury had dm s> erased one hour. -18 minutes i |ust told them God bless them." Sanders said t am yiad they came m with open He also said he had no hard feelings toward police "One Pad apple don t spoil (he whole bunch." lie said, referring to the off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard at Riverfront Stadium and got into an argument with Sanders mat led to the charges Barkley to have knee surgery PMOl.NIX (AP) Charles Barxiey win have knee surgery Thursday and proba bly won t decide until alter a .« week rehabilitation whether to return tc the Phoenix Suns After the final team meeting ot the season. Barkley sound ed far toss serious about Tenement than ho did on Sat urday. when his 18 points and 23 rebounds couldn't keep Houston from eliminat ing the Suns m the second round This is a perfect environ ment tor basketball," he said Wednesday 'But I'll tell you what I am t into this work ing-out-during-the-summer stuff My summer's supposed to be vacation. I'm supposed to play 32 holes (of got!) a day and relax "
