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Crane: Junior finished 57th at NCAAs
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His 73.1 scoring average leads the
Ducks as do his eight top-20 finishes
in 12 tournaments. Crane also owns
the best tournament placing forOre
gon, a tie for first at the Pacific Invita
tional last September, and second
team All-Pacific-10 Conference
honors.
Nosier says Crane is an extreme
ly dedicated player who has
worked hard to elevate his game
since joining the team in 1995.
“Ben has just made tremendous
improvements,” Nosier says. “He’s
spent a great deal of time and effort
working on his swing, so he can
make a consistent swing at the ball
and have the feel he needs to have
to excel the way he has. ”
The fact that Crane, a junior, has
shaved more than four strokes off
his freshman scoring average of 77.3
is testament to his commitment.
His short game, specifically
putting, has benefited the most
from countless hours of practice,
Crane says.
“It's been my primary focus for a
while now, and I understand how
you score is by having a good short
game,” Crane says. “A lot of peo
ple are confused or they think that
all the guys who are on tour are
great ball strikers, and they’re not.
If you go out and watch them play,
they don’t hit the ball that great but
they all have a great short game."
An absence of glaring weak
nesses and a strong mental ap
proach hel p Crane to maintain his
consistency, according to Nosier.
“The majority of the time when
Ben’s out there he’s pretty fo
cused, and he doesn’t have a lot of
other thoughts on his mind other
than that particular round and that
particular shot that he’s working
on,” Nosier says.
However, Crane’s feats almost
benefited a team other than Ore
gon.
After winning the Metro League
individual crown and graduating
from Beaverton High School in
1994, Crane left the state to attend
Baylor.
He redshirted during the 1994
95 school year and then decided
to transfer home to Oregon to play
with players he knew, such as
Derek Croskrey and Jeff Barney,
who are among his teammates
now.
“I decided to come back to the
Northwest and play with those guys
because they had a pretty good pro
gram and guys who cared about play
ing well, which wasn’t the case at
Baylor,” Crane says. “I loved the
school, I didn’t like the golf program.”
A tie for 57th at the 1997
NCAA Championships was not
the way Crane dreamed of bow
ing out at that most prestigious
of collegiate tournaments in
Lake Forest, 111., but at least he
got to make the trip.
Heading into this season’s West
Regional, which begins Thursday
in Tempe, Ariz., Crane is hungry
to obtain another chance at gob
bling up the nationals field. This
time, however, he plans on bring
ing along some friends — namely,
the rest of his team.
“We all have a common goal,
just to make it to nationals,” Crane
says. “Whatever we’ve got to do to
make it to nationals.”
Crane needs to play to the ut
most of his capabilities for the
Ducks to advance to the champi
onships for the first time since
1990, Nosier says.
“You really have to look to your
leaders and your low scoring-av
erage people to continue to give
you that,” Nosier says. “That’s cer
tainly what I’m hoping for and
probably for us to make it through
die West Regional and get to the fi
nal stage of the NCAAs, Ben will
have to play very well.”
Fortunately for Oregon, Crane has
already visited the promised land
once. This time he plans on bring
ing com pany along for the trip.
Sports Brut s
Davis named track
athlete of the week
Oregon's Marie Davis was
named the Pacific-10 Conference’s
outdoor track women’s athlete of
the week for her efforts in Satur
day’s dual meet at Washington.
Davis won the 1,500 meters in
four minutes, 24.48 seconds and
the 3,000 meters in 9:34.00 in the
Ducks’ loss to the Huskies. The
junior from Portland currently
ranks in the top 10 nationally in
three events — the 1,500, the
3,000 and the 5,000 meters.
Seilala Sua of UCLA was named
the women’s field athlete of the
week after tlirowing the discus 212
feet, two inches—a toss that ranks
second all-time in the Pac-10.
Patrick Nduwimana of Arizona
was named the Pac-lO’s men’s
track athlete of the week after an
NCAA automatic qualifying time
in the 800 meters, and Mika Laiho
of Arizona State was named the
men’s field athlete of the week af
ter a hammer throw of 235-10 to
win die Arizona Elite Classic.
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