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Softball takes to the home field ■ OPENER: Oregon attempts to kick-off its conference season on the right foot against the highly ranked Washington Huskies By Chris Hansen Sports Reporter Oregon softball, weather per mitting, will open its 1997 Pacif ic-10 Conference season Satur day with a doubleheader against the No. 4 Washington Huskies at Howe Field starting at 12 p.m. The Ducks (8-10 overall, 0-0 Pac-10) come into the game a lit tle banged up mentally and phys ically. Second baseman Angie LeRoy (left ankle sprain) and rightfielder Lindsey Welch (right shoulder) both saw limited ac tion during last weekend’s San Diego State Tournament due to injuries. Welch, who is listed as ques tionable for Saturday’s games, is one of Oregon's top offensive per formers, batting .396 with four home runs and leading the team in walks (six) and on-base per centage (.455). The freshman has already earned Pac-10 Co-Player of the Week honors after going 10 for-15 with seven runs, seven hits, SOFTBALL three home runs and seven RBI two weeks ago at a tourna ment in Las Ve gas. In addition to the possibility ui uemg snui i-iiaiiueu in me rieia, the Ducks are also feeling some what mentally beaten up after go ing 1-6 in San Diego last weekend. “We’ve got some girls that are really down right now,” head coach Rick Gamez said. “We’ve got to get them back into the right frame of mind, break it down and get after it again. “(Last weekend) we weren’t fo cused mentally and didn’t exe cute. There was no one thing that didn’t happen; it was a combina tion of things. We’re going to go right back to the basics and talk fundamentals.” Washington (16-5, 0-0) comes to Eugene as the defending Pac-10 champion and the 1996 College World Series runner-up to Ari zona. The Huskies are led offen sively by Becky Newbry (.441 bat ting average), Sara Pickering (.419) and Shelly Brown (.418), with Newbry and Pickering com bining for 10 home runs. “Washington is a great club,” Gamez said. “They’ve been suc cessful and have some postseason experience. But we’ve got to focus on what we do well; we’re not go ing to do anything different.” Petrina Martinez and Jennie Cook are expected to share the pitching duties for Oregon. Mar tinez has been a work horse for Oregon, pitching six complete games so far this year compared to just one all of last season. Ducks to host two-day tourney next week ■ GOLF: Four of the nations top 25 teams will be in town for this week’s tournament By Ryan Halvorsen Sports Reporter The Oregon men’s golf team will be the host of this week’s tournament, the Oregon Duck Invita tional, on Monday and Tuesday at the Eugene Coun try Club. Thirty-six holes will be played the first day, finishing up with 18 on Tuesday. Competition starts at 8 a.m. on both days. The 14-team field will feature four teams ranked in the top 25 in the nation including Arizona (4th), Southern California (9th), Arizona State (11th) and Brigham Young (21st). Other teams competing in the tournament will be Oregon State, Pepperdine, Fres no State, San Jose State, Washington, Washington State, Stanford, Nevada and California. The format for the tournament will have six play ers competing for each team with four of those scores counting as the team score. Competing for the Ducks will be Jeff Barney, J. J. Astorquia, Chris Cone, GOLF The Ducks’ sixth man will be de cided among Adrian Burtner, Ryan Lavoie and Joel Stock, with the other two playing as individu als detached from the squad along with Jason Mattaini, Blake Parrish ana Kyan c.nacKei. Most recently the Ducks finished in eighth place at the Taylor Made Waikaloa Invitational in a na tionally competitive field. 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