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Cook: Mental preparation key to pitcher’s success ■ Continued from Page 1 tremendous desire to be success ful, and it rubs off onto her team mates. She makes everyone bet ter.” That too has come with hard work and has been crafted from her very first season at Oregon. A four-time 3A all-state selec tion at Elmira, Cook was recruit ed with the intent to bolster a mediocre Duck pitching staff that struggled throughout the 1995 season. Following the graduation of Rachelle Taylor, the Ducks’ all-time career leader in nine pitching categories, Oregon was forced to begin 1995 with an in experienced and unproven staff. That season, Oregon’s 12-15 conference record dropped it to fifth in the Pac-10, and its No. 1 pitcher, Kim Kampfer, lost a school record 20 games. Flash forward six months. After a series of impressive spring workouts in 1996, head coach Tami Brown decided to put her freshman pitcher into the three-woman starting rotation just one week into the season. Cook’s debut was a 5-3 victory over Akron at the UNLV Spring Fling, in Las Vegas. The follow ing day she allowed nine runs in a two-run victory against Hawaii. With Cook’s 2-0 start, the Ducks crawled back to just a game be low .500. Then the wheels came off. Cook lost her next four starts in a critical eight-game stretch lead ing up to the Ducks’ Pac-10 schedule. A difficult streak that began with a 5-2 loss to Hawaii on March 1 and culminated three weeks later with a 5-1 rout at the hands of Loyola Marymount. “I remember that I was sur prised that I was getting to pitch so much in those games,” Cook says. “I never really felt comfort able out on the field." With her confidence shaken, Cook found the spotlight intimi dating for the first time in her ca reer. But because Oregon needed a power pitcher, Brown elected to keep Cook in the rotation. It was a decision that is still paying div idends for Cook and the entire softball program at Oregon. “For me it was just a matter of confidence,” Cook says. “1 had to know that I could get the job done at this level.” With the confidence of her coach and her teammates, Cook started eight of the Ducks’ next 10 games and lost only twice. The crown jewel was a 5-4 victo ry against in-state rival Oregon State in the Ducks' conference opener at Howe. Two seasons and 40 victories later, Cook credits her mental de velopment as the single most im portant improvement she’s made since her freshman season. “It’s been my mental prepara tion that has improved the most,” Cook says. "Part of that is a credit (( [Cook] always just has a vibe like there is no one who can beat her. When we step on to the field with her we know that we can beat anyone. ** Kelly Planche Oregon catcher to the coaches I’ve had, and part of that is just getting experience. Now I’m very confident when I go out to pitch. Now I expect to win every time I go out onto the field." Confidence that has spread to her teammates. “There is no one we’d rather have up there in a clutch situa tion,” catcher Kelly Planche says. “She always just has a vibe like there is no one who can beat her. When we step on to the field with her, we know that we can beat anyone.” With the team roughly halfway through the 1998 season, Cook is on pace to break several of the Ducks’ most impressive single season pitching statistics — most notably, total appearances, com plete games and starts. In 27 appearances this season, Cook has amassed a 15-9 record. Not outstanding, but her 151 in nings pitched is one of the high est totals in the Pac-10 this sea son. And although it is well off the pace of Oregon’s single-sea son mark of 361 2/3 innings set by Katie Wiese in 1989, Cook will likely have a chance to break 300 innings if the Ducks remain competitive in the Pac-10 race. Which will have a lot to do with Cook and how she pitches early in conference play. “She is a gamer,” Gamez says. "There is no other word to de scribe her. It wouldn’t do her jus tice to compare her to anyone else we’ve ever had here. She is so intense.” And intent on having an im pact on the Oregon record books as well. Barring serious injury, Cook will finish her career ranked near the top of every major Oregon pitching category. Just 41 games into this season, Cook ranks in the top five in nine of the Ducks’ all-time career categories, includ ing games pitched, number of in nings, wins, losses and strike outs. Numbers which, on this day, haven’t even entered her mind. Her final pitch is chopped back to the circle, and although both Arizona State runners scream down the base paths and the crowd yells, Cook is not rat tled. Confidently, she corrals the spinning, bouncing ball and fires to first base. And there is no one under this crystal blue sky so sure-handed. Jennie Cook File ■ Year Junior ■ Home town: Noti, Ore. ■ Throws: Right NOTES ■ Leads Oregon with 15 wins this season ...also tops in starts (21), complete games (20), strikeouts (68), earned run average (2.04) and innings pitched (151) ■ 1998 marks the third con secutive season she has led the Ducks in wins ■ Ranks eighth on the team with a .323 batting average ... ranks second in RBIs with 22 and homeruns with five ■ Last season was named the team's Most Valuable Player and received AII-Pac-10 honor able mention honors ■ A four-time 3A all-state se lection at Elmira high school ■ Named 3A Player of the Year in 1995 following her senior season ■ Earned 12 letters at Elmira with four each in softball, bas ketball and soccer CLASSIFIEDS Call 346-4343 or stop by Suite 300 EMU to place your ad today ADVERTISING POLICY PAYMENT: Prepayment is required unless billing has been established. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Ameri can Express and Discover. 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