Golf: International players add depth
■ Continued from Page 11
Women’s Invitational, but more importantly she tied
for fourth at the Rolex Fall Preview, a tournament
showcasing the top players in the country. That per
formance boosted her individual ranking from 29th
at the beginning of the season.
Patterson, who graduated from Central Catholic
High School in Portland, prepared for this season by
competing in four tournaments over the summer,
winning two including the Oregon Women’s Ama
teur and placing second in another. No small
achievement for anyone.
Baumgartner has done a lot to improve the team in
the past two years, signing some of the best interna
tional amateurs like Heuser and Wilson to accompa
ny the always solid Patterson.
Heuser, from Wuppertal, Germany, was one of the
biggest steals by coach Baumgartner. She was the top
amateur in Germany last year, winning the National
German Amateur Championship. Heuser is obvious
ly no stranger to the golf course. She practically grew
up on one.
In Germany she attended a “sort of kindergarten"
where the only way to advance was to spend time on
the putting green or out on the driving range. Heuser
spent her time on the driving range, advanced, and
landed a scholarship to an American university.
“Someone like Anika has a lot of experience,”
Baumgartner said, “She’s a great player and when
your athletic department is spending a lot of money
you want to bring in the best that you can from any
where.”
So far this year Heuser has proven that she can be
the best, winning the Minnesota Invitational in the
Ducks’ first tournament this year. Heuser shot even
par for the tournament and won in a playoff, but it
was no big deal to her.
“Actually it was kind of weird [to win],” Heuser
said. “When I played in my first [tournament] I
played good and I won it. I thought, ‘well, that wasn’t
what it was supposed to be’, but it was a strange feel
ing because it was the first tournament and I wasn’t
expecting anything.”
Heuser’s victory in the first tournament spurred
Wilson to step up in the second tournament of the
season at the Northwest Women’s Invitational Tour
nament.
“Kylie said that if Anika can do it than I can do it,”
Baumgartner said. “They feed off of each other.”
Wilson won outright by five strokes. Her victory
capped off the Ducks’ first back-to-back team and in
dividual tournament wins in the teams’ 10-year his
tory, but like Heuser, Wilson didn’t get a big head
about the win.
“It was awkward, different, just in the way they go
about things over here,” Wilson said. “It was good
though.”
Wilson, coming from Auckland, New Zealand,
was another lucky strike for the Ducks’ golf program.
A former Oregon golfer who worked in New Zealand
told someone that the Ducks were looking for play
ers and giving out scholarships. Wilson found out
about it and wrote a letter to the school.
"It was quite fluky, actually,” Wilson said.
Both Wilson and Heuser credit their coming to
Oregon to Baumgartner, saying that it was her per
sonal letters to them that made them feel like they
were actually wanted by the program, in contrast to
the standard form letters that Heuser received from
other schools.
It is obvious that Baumgartner has brought an in
ternational flavor to the golf team in an attempt to
make them one of the best in the country. Other than
Wilson and Heuser another one of Oregon’s top play
ers is from overseas.
Karen Bristow, a sophomore from Queensland,
Australia, adds experience and depth to the Oregon
roster. Sophomore Brooke Taylor and redshirt fresh
man Dawn Berry round out Oregon’s international
roster, both coming to Oregon from Calgary, Alberta.
Freshman Angie Rizzo, from Coon Rapids, Minn.,
and Tara Keller of Visalia, Calif., make up the rest of
Oregon’s top qualifiers this year. Rizzo played well
in her home state at the Minnesota Invitational, fin
ishing in a tie for ninth place in her first college tour
nament.
There is no doubt that this Oregon team is diverse,
but the players seem to enjoy learning about each
other’s country.
“1 think it’s fun,” Rizzo said. “You learn a lot about
different things having them over here. They teach
you about things that they know and that we don't."
“Everyone has to be open minded,” Heuser said.
“It’s a good mixture and it’s pretty nice because you
learn so much about all parts of the world.”
The Ducks will see if they can continue their suc
cess this weekend at the Lady Cardinal Invitational
in Beaumont, Tex. One more win would leave them
standing on high ground going into the winter break
and all that would be left would be to pick up in the
spring where they left off in the fall.
Playoffs: Wohlers picks up fifth postseason save
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two-out, two-run single in the bot
tom of the ninth.
For the Braves, it’s another
chance to enhance their reputa
tion for playoff rallies. They won
the 1991 NLCS by pitching two
consecutive shutouts to overcome
Pittsburgh, then beat the Pirates
the next year by scoring three runs
in the bottom of the ninth.
For the Cardinals, it’s a last
chance to hold off the Braves, and
their own history. Of the 47 teams
to hold 3-1 leads, 40 have gone on
to win the series — St. Louis is the
only club to blow that edge twice.
La Russa gambled by starting
rookie Alan Benes in order to give
his tired pitchers a break. Benes
gave up only three hits over five
innings as the Braves managed
just a sacrifice fly by Jermaine Dye
in the second and an RBI single by
Mark Lemke in the fifth.
The Braves thought they had
made it 3-0 in the seventh, but
Lemke was called out for leaving
third base early on an apparent
sacrifice fly by Chipper Jones.
Third base umpire Bob Davidson
made the call as Lemke was get
ting high-fives in the dugout,
though replays made it look like
the tag was legal.
“Clearly, in my opinion, it was
100 percent correct,” Davidson
said. “I don’t care what they show
on TV, and that’s the name of the
game.”
That play almost proved costly
to the Braves before they added an
insurance run for real in the eighth
on an RBI single by Rafael Belliard
that shortstop Royce Clayton al
most caught.
Maddux, tagged for a career
high-tying eight runs in a Game 2
loss, bounced back to look every
bit the pitcher who has won four
straight Cy Young Awards.
Maddux walked none, struck
out seven and did not permit a
runner past first base until the sev
enth. He threw only 62 pitches
over the first six innings, never go
ing to a single three-ball count.
In the eighth, Maddux retired
the first two batters before Clayton
singled and took third on a single
by Willie McGee. Cox brought in
his relief ace and Wohlers
bounced a wild pitch that made it
2-1.
Wohlers avoided further trou
ble and closed for his second save
of the series and fifth of this post
season.
The Braves made it 1-0 in the
second. Fred McGriff singled and
went to third on a double by Javy
Lopez, bringing up Dye. In a
strange play, Dye hit a foul when
his back swing hit the ball after it
popped out of catcher Tom Pag
nozzi’s mitt. He then followed
with the sacrifice fly. Jeff Blauser
was hit by an 0-2 pitch to start the
fifth, moved up on a sacrifice by
Maddux and scored on Lemke’s
two-out single.
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■ OREGON: The Ducks
are playing well in the fall
season
By Ryan Halvorsen
Sports Reporter
The Oregon men’s golf team
came back strong in the final
round of the Pacific Chase
Chevrolet golf tournament at
Saddle Creek Country Club in
Stockton, Calif., Tuesday to
finish tied for second place
with Long Beach State. Wash
ington captured the team title
with a 882 team score.
Sophomore Derek Croskrey
paced the Ducks, shooting a
two-over-par 74 in the final
round to finish with a team
high 221 for the tournament
and leading the Ducks to a 888
team score.
“We came back pretty
good... played fairly well and
got a little help from the teams
ahead of us,” Oregon head
coach Steve Nosier said in a
press release Tuesday. “We
didn’t lose this tournament,
Washington won it.”
Chris Cone got off to a hot
start for the Ducks, shooting a
71 in the first round. Cone
cooled off in the second and
third rounds, shooting a 77
and 75 respectively and finish
ing with a 223.
Senior J. J. Astorquia and
freshman Ryan Lavoie also fin
ished with scores of 223 to bol
ster Oregon’s team score. Jeff
Barney shot a 233 to round out
Oregon’s finishers.
Ben Crane was on pace to
score in the low 220’s, but he
withdrew from the third round
for medical reasons after
shooting even-par in the sec
ond.
“We’re going in the right di
rection and I feel we’re going
to be competitive on a consis
tent basis this year,” Nosier
said. “We have a blend of
youth and experience and
they’re maturing nicely so far.”
Mike Lawrence, of Califor
nia at Irvine, captured the indi
vidual title with a five-under
par 211, five shots ahead of
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