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Emerald WEDNESDAY October 18, 1995 rr r* ; rr r TODAY IN SPORTS Running back could rejoin Nebraska team soon LINCOLN. Neb. (AP) Suspended running back l-awrence Phillips could return to practice with Nebraska as early as this week, coach Tom Osborne said yesterday But Phillips won’t play for tin nest two weeks for the second-ranked Huskers, Osborne said. That means he would miss games Satur day against No H Kansas State and Oct 2H at No ') Colorado Osborne said when Phillips returns to practice depends on what school officials decide about whether Phillips will face university disciplinary action for an assault on his former girlfriend Phillips pleaded no con test to a misdemeanor as assault charge for hitting Kate McLwen. a Nebraska basketball player, and is sc heduled to he sentenced Dec: J Oshorne said the ath letic department had paid for 24-hour protection for McKwen Israeli team signs forward Tom Chambers LONDON (AP) - former NBA star Tom Chambers will pla\ for Maccabi I'd Aviv in Ilus week's Mi Don aid's Open, Chambers, who played with Seattle, Phoenix and Utah, signed a one-year con tract Tuesday with the Israeli club. The deal, worth a reported $500,000, would make him the highest paid player in Israel. Chandlers was an unre stricted free agent after two seasons with the Utah Jazz. He averaged t,.2 points per game last season, the lowest total of his career. Chambers was the MVP of the t‘)H7 All-Star Game when he was playing for Seatt le. H:s first game for the Israeli club vs ill be Thurs day. when Maccabi plays the Italian champions Buck ler Bologna. Four other clubs are play ing in the McDonald's Championship, including the NBA champion Houston Rockets Carlson finally hits her stride ■ CROSS COUNTRY: After endunr g a frustrating redshirt season last year senior Jenna Carlson has made her final year worth every second By Pete Schneider Scarfs Anoorfer Kvarything is clicking for |onna Carlson in the 1995 c ross county season The fifth-year senior from ('.rants Pass, Or*1 has led the Ducks in every meet this season and has plac ed either first or second individually in even race for Oregon this year Prac tic ally no one ha* been able to touch Carlson in the Ducks' last three meets What is sc ary for Pacific- It) < onferenc e runners is that Carlson seems to only bo getting better as the season progresses And her last two ni her most impressive performances this year Two weeks ago in the high-altitude* of Colorado. Carlson shut down the competition by winning the extreme altitude rac e by l t seconds laist Saturdnv -it the Drouth Memorial meet in Eugene she lost hv less than half a second to her sister Tarn, who runs for Washington Carlson says her sure ess this season is a result of her ability to stay healthy "Everything has just seemed to come together sine e (his summer," she said “Now that Pin finally healthy. I was able to get in a full summer of training, which made me able to step it up this year.” A nagging hamstring injury forced ( arlsoii to rod shirt the 1 *»<M cross country season, whit h would have been her senior campaign The injury was particu larly frustrating for Carlson Im« a use sfie had shown so mlicit potential in her first three years at Oregon “l ast year was really hard because I would start training and then I'd tie hurt again," Carlson said "l was so up and down I can't even count how many times I thought of bagging the whole thing because i kept getting hurt ." After spending the whole season watt hing from the sidelines, Carlson's hamstrings had healed to tin point where she was ready to break through during the 1995 track season She went into the season with an assortment of injuries and self doubt, but l ame out as an All-American Carlson received the All-Ameru an award by plac ing ninth in the t.000 meter rm e at the NCAA Track and Field Championships Carlson will admit that her performance last spring i nine as a hit of a sur prise to even herself. "I did o lot tietter than I'd ever thought I'd do last year." she said. “At the tieginning of the season, my goal was just to make it to the Pm to meet because I didn't know if I had enough base to have a good true k season When I made it to nationals, my goal there was to lie an All-Americ an and I did just that." Her sue t ess at the NCAA meet last year has given Carlson the confidence she needed to get back on trat k and run to her capabilities she showed earli • CROSS COUNTRY COUBUS* PHOTO Senior Jenna Carlson came back from an Injury-plagued 1994 cross country season to shine both last spring In track and this fall In cross country Golfers close fall season with strong third round ■ GOLF: T he Ducks end a competitive season m a tournament that included some tough teams and some tough individuals By Trevor Kearney Sports Echtor Thu Oregon men's golf team wrapped up its fall schedule Tuesday with an 11th place showing at the Robertson Homes Intercollegiate in Stockton, Calif The Ducks, who were in tilth place after the first two rounds of play, upped their team posi tion by two notches with a third-round score of 292. Oregon finished with a com bint’d score of 887 in the 54 hole tournament The individual competition could have been the stiffest the Ducks faced nil season, as sophomore Jeff Barney went into Tuesday's action in fourth place, hut full to 12th plate in the tough field Barney shot a 75 in the final round to finish with a four-over par 217. Florida State's John Bettencourt tied with San Jose State's Aaron OberhoUer for a five-under par combined score of 208, but Bettencourt won the ensuing playoff. In all. five golfers at the tournament fin ished with even scores or batter. For Oregon, Harney was the only Duck dose to notching an even st ore. .is sophomore Chris Cone and junior co-captain I I Asforquia both shot combined scores o( 227, Kedshirt fresh man Derek Croskrey shot a 228. while redshirt freshman Adrian Burtner shot a 22‘) Barney and Cone have emerged as the Ducks' top two golfers this fall, though Croskrey and Astorquia have both shined at times as well. In the team nice, Fresno State fought off a third-round attempt from Pacific to take the tourna ment. The Bulldogs, who led going into Tuesday’s action, fin ished with a combined score of 8*>4 to grab the team win, while Pacific finished with a score of 871. The Tigers, however, out shot the Bulldogs in the final round by a seven-stroke margin The Ducks outshot San I rant is« o by two-strokes to move up in the final standings. While the Ducks concluded their five tournament fall sea son. the team will practice for their spring season, which begins February 12 in Kona. Hawaii and concludes with the NCAA Championships in June The Oregon women, however, have two more tournaments this fall The Ducks travel to Palo Alto. Calif., this Friday for the Stanford invitational and then go to the l.ady Cardinal Invitational in Beaumont. Texas, on Oct. 30.
