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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1995)
Emerald THURSDAY September 28, 1995 Club sports open house tonight Tonight thw Oregon C'lub Sports office offers an infor mational open house for alt interested new and return ing students. Interested' Drop by to meet coat ties and coordinators in the KMl1 Kir Room from f» to 7:30. Most of tltt! )5 club sports teams will have display tables, videos, bulletin hoards — even some martial arts and fencing demonstra tions. Last year over 1.1)00 stu dents participated in tin club sports program, which is regarded ns a happy medium between the highly competitive inter-collegiate varsity teams and the fun based intramural programs Club sports teams com pete against other club teams and varsity teams from around the Northwest Someone worse than Packwood? CARDIFF. Wales (AP) Paul Hickson. Britain's head swimming coach at the Seoul Olympic s. was jailed fur 17 years today for raping two women and indecently assaulting I t w hile coach ing them at school and col lege. Hickson, 4H. whose 1988 team ' i aptured three golds plus silver and bronze medals, was said to have committed a catalog of sex attacks spread over a 15-vear period while he supervised swim ming ( lulls in Norwich, Kng land; and Swansea, Wales, before he las ame national coach. One woman, now 32, described how Hickson fre quently raped her at his home during school lunch breaks — the First time when she was 13. Hu kson denied the two charges of rape and 13 inde cent assaults Married with mi 8-year-old daughter, he at ( used the 13 women of fantasizing about sex with him, Stackhouse signs three-year deal PHll.ADKl.PHtA (AP) - Jerry Stackhouse, the third overall pick in List June's NBA draft, signed with the Philadelphia 7tiers on Wednesday, becoming the highest selection so far to loin lus new team Under the league's new rookie salary scale. Stack house will receive approxi mately $8,855 million over three years after leaving North Carolina as a sopho more. tnmmi The departure of Rich Brooks has left Oregon fans without a scapegoat to blame their woes on. Undefeated Brooks haunts Oregon fans Whtrn hi* Ihh nmo Orogon * bond fool boll comb. it iv,is A Downing of a Now Day.' and his young mug win plastered on a Franklin Houlovtud billboard It limit* down buwovor u huu hti didn't produiu i in mod i n t»* results anil he Inn iiimi the figurwhi'.id that Oregon foot ball fans loved to hitu, but deep down halt'd to st'tt Itijivi' Rich Hrooks did, in ontt wav or uuoth it, ntaki' an impsu t on oven, Oregon loot hall fan Anu why not ' ll« provided tint ups and downs that the average moody I>u< k t in thrives on Hi- took his team to four bowl games includii g the grand* daddy <■ them all. the Rose, b tie didn't pro duce a national chain EQQm tw Homey ptonmh|i, (t top ton ranking or even a stilitl siring of suu ess fui years The balance between suet ess ami failure was the perfect corundum to fus'd hungry Dm k fans what tlmv needed to survive and survive happily I think that Eugene is one of the great, picturesque college towns in in\ optn ion in tin' country, and was a great community in which to raise a family, which 1 did in my lit years there." Itrooks said via teleconference on Tuesday ‘Tar and away one of the most beautiful spots I have ever been Eugene didn't always return that love, however In fm t. if then* was one thing that Oregon's most sui i es&ful « oat ii gave Dm k fans, it was a scapegoat to blame losses, disappointments and frustrations on And without giving them that, lie never would have lasted eighteen mediocre years at Oregon. I was coat long at a school we were just plain awful,” itrooks said 1 mean, the only reason I got the job is las a use nobody * I ..- wanted it fh it is why Jim Mora turned it down; he was smarter than I was At Turn t. KEARNEY, P.im* 24 Mariners disappointed at Dome, Angels win 2-0 BASEBALL: Angels stay alive m American League West race SKATTLF (AT) — The California Angels didn't want the Sf.ittie Mariners to clinch a tie for the Al. West at their expense "We didn't want to give them a chance to celebrate in front of ns,” manager Martel 1-achemann said after California kept the division race close with a 2-0 victory over Seattle on Wednesday night "The guys didn't want that to happen and they didn't let it happen." Chuck Finley (H-121 was the Angels' hero, allowing only three hits in fi 1-3 innings before u screaming crowd of 50.212 "That's the loudest I've ever seen it in the Kingdome.'* Finley said. "I felt like I was in the end zone out there. It was actually echoing in my ears." Trying desperately to regain their momentum with time running out. the Angel-, cut Seattle's lead in the division to two games with four to go The Angels stayed 1 1/2 games behind the New York Yankees in the wild-card race A victory by Seattle would have i (inched a tie for the division title, but instead the Manners had their seven game overall and nine-game home winning streaks snapped. "Tonight our bats took a little day off." Seattle manager l.uu Finielta said "Not because we didn't swing them well Finley pitched very well He moved the frail around, changed speeds and made the pitches when he had to." The Mariners still like their chances of winning their first division crown. "We're still hot," Mike Blowers said. "Any time you win seven of eight at home, you have to feel pretty good about that. We lost, but we still feel good about our situation." Finley, pitching on three days’ rest because Mark laitigston has hit ep tendinitis in hi* left arm. ended a personal four-game losing streak with his first win sinui Aug .!•) lie walked five and strut k out four Finley focused on the Mariners, nut the division rai « "I knew wo needed a good win. hut 1 really didn't go out there with the thought the whole organization was riding on mv bat k." he said, "I really didn’t need to do that. 1 didn't wont to overestimate the value of the game All I thought about was pitching " Finley was taken out after walking Mike Blowers and Rich Amaral with one out in the seventh. Troy Percival struik out pinch-hitter Doug Strange and Vince Coleman to end Seattle's seventh inning threat Lee Smith pitched the ninth for his 35th save, finishing just the second shutout of Seattle this year. California won for only the second time in an eight-game road trip and |ust the 10th time in 37 games. "Seattle is n very good team," Lachemann said "Hut wo can'! worry a I tool thmn We've made our bed and we’ve got to lay in it." The Angels scored both of their runs in the opening inning against Tim Belcher (10-11) Phillips walked and moved to second on Gary DiSarcino'* groundout He scored on Tim Salmon's bioop single to right that a sliding /ay Buhner barely missed. Salmon scored from first on Chili Davis' double that went off first baseman Tino Martinez's glove. Belt.her pitched almost as well as Finley, allowing two runs oil five hits and three walks with two strikeouts in eight innings. The Angels end their season at home with a four-game series beginning Thursday against Oakland, which has beaten them California seven out of nine times this year. The Mariners wind up with four at Texas, a team they're H-l against this season.
