Emerald
WEDNESDAY
October 18, 1995
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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.