FRIDAY
October 3,1997
we (Jnoles
rack the
Mariners for
nine hits
and six
rims,
giving
Baltimore a
shot at
the AL
champion
ship series
By David Ginsburg
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — As soon as Jamie Moyer
took his first step off the mound, the Balti
more Orioles began their march to another
lopsided victory over the Seattle Mariners.
Baffled by Moyer’s offspeed pitches for
half the game Thursday, Baltimore went
ahead immediately after the left-hander
was forced out with an elbow injury. The
Orioles rocked Seattle’s inadequate bullpen
for six runs and nine hits, and their second
straight 9-3 rout sent them home with a 2-0
lead in the best-of-5 series.
Baltimore can advance to the AL cham
pionship series for a second straight year
with a win Saturday in Game 3 at Camden
Yards. The Orioles, who got homers from
Harold Baines and Brady Anderson, are 9-4
against the Mariners this season.
Seattle’s bullpen has a 10.80 ERA in the
two playoff games, allowing 10 earned runs
in relief of Randy Johnson and Moyer. Bob
by Ayala was hit the hardest Thursday,
yielding six runs in 1 1-3 innings.
“Our bullpen
threw the ball very
well in September,”
Mariners manager
Lou Piniella said.
"Right now we’re
just not getting the
job done, but that
could change over
the weekend.”
With the Mariners leading 2-1 in the fifth
inning, Moyer gave up a two-out single to
Mike Bordick, walked Anderson on four
pitches and threw a ball well out of the
strike zone to Roberto Alomar. After a dis
cussion at the mound with Piniella, Moyer
left the game with a strained flexor muscle
in his left elbow.
That spelled trouble for the Mariners,
whose bullpen blew 27 save opportunities
this season.
“We were kind of stymied by Moyer,”
Orioles manager Davey Johnson said. “You
don’t like to see a pitcher leave a game with
an injury, but me, personally, I was glad to
see him go.”
Paul Spoljaric came in and Alomar hit a
drive that glanced off the glove of a leaping
Ken Griffey Jr. at the center field wall. The
double scored two runs and put Baltimore
ahead to stay.
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(( Our
bullpen threw
the hall very
well in
September.
Right now
ive 're just not
getting the job
done. D
Lou Piniella
Mariners manager
Women head
to OSU for
crucial match
After losing the last five matches,
Oregon hopes to pick up its first
Pac-10 win of the season in a
Civil War match
By Rob Moseley
Sports Reporter
Rewind to Oct. 18 of last year.
The Oregon women’s volleyball team was
mired in a six-match losing streak when
Oregon State came to town for the first Civil
War match of the season. In front of a
McArthur Court record of 3,716 screaming
volleyball fans, the Ducks won a hard
fought five-game match, 15-9,16-14,12-15,
11-15,15-10.
VOLLEYBALL
Fast forward to this sea
son, and the scenario
seems eerily familiar.
Oregon (7-7 overall, 0-4
Pacific-10 Conference) has
dropped five straight
matches, including the
first four in the Pac-10, and
travels to Oregon State (8-7, 1-3) Friday for
what promises to be an immensely impor
tant match.
“Our team was in an almost identical situ
ation last year, where we’d been through
some tough weekends coming into the OSU
(match],” head coach Cathy Nelson said.
"We did a good job of peaking for that perfor
mance and it really turned our season
around.”
The Ducks went on to beat the Beavers
again in Corvallis a month later for the first
season sweep of Oregon State by Oregon
since 1989.
Nelson knows that a losing streak presents
problems, but she has faith in her team’s abil
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Duck Classic
EMERALD
Shanelle Kaneshiro is first up for the Ducks as Oregon seeks a second straight
NCAA Tournament birth. Singles matches begin at 9 a m.
Ducks
to host
national
powers
Oregon hopes to use the
Duck Classic as a tuneup
for the regular season
By Joel Hood
Sports Reporter
With heavy rain expected to fall this
weekend, the Oregon women’s tennis
team will most likely move today’s Duck
Classic tennis tournament to the covered
tennis courts beside Esslinger Gym.
For the second
straight year, Oregon
will host singles ^nd
doubles action in a
five-team tournament
featuring three of the
nation's top women’s
teams.
TENNIS
"This will be a great start to the sea
son,” head coach Jack Griffin said.
“We’re looking at this tournament as
kind of a tuneup for regular season later
in the year; to get our players used to
playing top-level competition.”
This weekend’s five-team field in
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Oregon heads to Montana for Mountain West Invitational
Ducks will face No. 5
Michigan, No. 17Arizona
and No. 19 BYU in what
could be one of Oregon’s
toughest races of the season
By Joel Hood
Sports Reporter
Call Oregon’s win last week at the
Sundodger Invitational a sign of things
to come, but players and coaches
know it’s only the first step in a season
long journey to get to the NCAA Cham
pionships.
“We might not be quite as deep as
we would like,” men’s cross country
head coach Bill Dellinger said. "But
we have a good solid team that is high
ly motivated to making it to the NCAA
Championships.”
Oregon’s next step comes Saturday
as the No. 4 Ducks
take on some of the
country’s best in the
Mountain West Invi
tational in Missoula,
Mont.
Michigan, No. 5 in
CROSS
COUNTRY
the country, returns
two All-Americans from last season
and is the highlight of the Ducks
schedule this weekend.
"This will be one of the toughest
races we run all year,” junior Rob
Aubrey said. “Michigan has a great
team again this year, and there are a
few other teams that could sneak up on
us.”
Along with Michigan, Oregon will
have to compete with No. 17 Arizona,
No. 19 B YU and a host of other schools
that could move into the nation’s top
25 with good showings.
“It is a real tough field, but we’re also
very confident,” sophomore Laird
Prosser said.
Prosser, who surprised everyone
with a second-place overall finish last
weekend in his first collegiate cross
country race, will be one of the Ducks
expected to finish strong on Saturday.
“I just have to do my best and put
myself in a position to win at the end,”
Prosser said. "When the racing really
gets going toward the end of the race,
that’s when I have to make my move.”
"We’re going to be racing against
some real quality teams this week
end,” Dellinger said. "That doesn’t
change how we approach each race.
Everyone just goes out and runs his
own race.
"We have a tight group that usually
stays close together. Last weekend our
top six runners were only separated by
33 seconds. We need to stay close to the
lead groups and finish strong together."
On tap
m WHO:
No. 4 Oregon
m WHAT:
Mountain West
Invitational
m WHERE:
Missoula,
Mont.
H WHEN:
Saturday,
October 4th.