The Box
MAJOR LEAGUE
BASEBALL
Texas 0
Mew York 2
WP-D. Wells
LP- T. Stottlemyre
S-M. Rivera
Boston 11
Cleveland 3
WP- P. Martinez
LP-J. Wright
SanOiego 2
Houston 1
WP-K. Brown
IP-R.Johnson
S-T. Hoffman
TODAY’S GAMES
Texas
Mew York 5 p.m.
Boston
Cleveland 10 a.m.
Chicago
Atlanta, 1 p.m.
SAGARIN RATINGS
COLLEGE
FOOTBALL
1. Nebraska
2. Tenn.
3. Ohio St.
4. Florida St.
5. Florida
6. L.SU
7. Syracuse
8. Penn. St.
9. Virg.Tech
10. Kansas St.
11. Oregon
12. UCLA
13. Wash.
14. Virginia
15. USD
16. Arizona
17. Georgia
18. Wisconsin
19. Colorado
20. Michigan
SCORING OFFENSE
DIVISION 1-A
1. Kansas St. 62
2. Oregon 50
3. Syracuse 47
4. Kentucky 46
5. UCLA 45
6. Nebraska 43
7. LSU 42
8. Tulane 41
9. Miami (Fia.) 41
10. Arkansas
11. Texas
12. Wisconsin
13. Indiana
14. Florida
15. Air Force
Oregon takes first at Husky Invitational
The men's team succeeds in
heating Stanford to win the golf
competition at Big Mountain
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
While walking through the Big Mountain
Golf Club in Bremerton, Wash., the Oregon
men’s golf team must have thought the
Husky Invitational seemed like the same
old story.
But when the competition concluded
Tuesday afternoon, the Ducks finished
with a storybook ending.
Tied for second place, just as they were
last week at the Pacific Invitational in
Copperopolis, Calif., Oregon passed first
place Northwestern in the final round to
finish with a score of 1,091 and tie Stan
ford for first place.
Oregon won the sudden death playoff
against Stanford on the par-four first hole,
by sinking three birdies and two pars as a
team. The birdies belonged to Derek
Croskrey, Adrian Burtner and Ben Crane.
Stanford fell short, however, scoring five
pars and losing to the
Ducks by four strokes.
"We played really
well,” Oregon head
coach Steve Nosier said.
“We knew we needed to
play well, and we were
an over tne board. it was
an unusual day, and I’m really happy for
the team. We didn’t come up here for a
good show; we came up here to win.”
Ryan Lavoie led the Ducks with a three
round stroke total of 212, tying him for
second place overall in the tournament.
Andrew Tredway finished seventh overall
with 216 and shot four-under-par on the
final 18 holes.
Burtner, who finished in a multiple tie
for eighth place, was a pleasant surprise
for the team as he finished with 217. His
score was even more impressive consider
ing that he did not play in the Ducks’ pre
vious invitational.
“I am proud of all of them,” Nosier said
of his team. “This win was strictly a team
effort. All the guys contributed in one
round or another."
Brigham Young and Northwestern tied
for third place with totals of 1,095, followed
by California in fifth place with 1,107.
Dusty Bratt of Stanford won the individual
title with a four-under-par total of 68.
Next up for the Ducks is the Nike Invita
tional in Corvallis on Oct. 5. Nosier said that
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Leaders
■ INDIVIDUAL
Bratt, Stan. 204
lavole, OR 212
■ TOP 5 TEAMS:
10regon* 1,091
2 Stanford 1,091
T3BYU 1,095
T3 N'Western 1,095
5 California 1,107
•Oregon defeated Stan
ford In playoff
1998 Oregon Volleyball
. Man Hankins/Emerald
Julie Gerlach ranks second in the Pac-10 and 12th in the nation in assists per game for Oregon, even though most
of her experience so far this season came before she had taken her first college course.
Gerlach sets the tone for Ducks
The
freshman
setter
makes the
most of
her talents
at the
University
By Allison Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
She’s from Scottsdale, Ariz., and she
loves the sun, but Julie Gerlach never
doubted that Oregon was the place she
wanted to play volley- _
ball.
But on this particular
day Gerlach is fortunate
because the sun is shin
ing and the 6-foot setter
is barely recognizable to
VOLLEYBALL
those tammar with Ure- -1
gon volleyball. She does not wear span
dex or knee pads, and more importantly
she has shed her almighty game face. To
day she has look of a concerned freshman
on the first day of classes. Her problem is
typical of every student — a glitch in her
schedule.
"I just want everything to be set,” she
says.
Ironically, setting isn’t a problem on the
volleyball court. She was touted by head
coach Cathy Nelson during the preseason
as possibly the best setter to come through
Oregon.
Nelson strengthened that statement 13
matches and 613 assists later by saying,
“Julie Gerlach will be the best setter Ore
gon has ever seen. ”
Gerlach’s 13.62 assists per game average
ranks her second in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence and 12th in the nation, making her
not only the best Oregon has seen, but one
of the best setters in volleyball. She con
tributed 76 assists against Wake Forest,
the seventh best single-game assist total in
Oregon history and the best thus far by
any Pac-10 player.
All of this before attending a single col
lege course.
When Gerlach talks about her early
years playing volleyball, it is with casual
words and little enthusiasm. Volleyball
was just for fun, she says, but gymnastics
seemed much more intriguing. It wasn’t
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Surgery takes
Sirmon out of
Ducks line-up
NCAA guidelines make getting a
sixth year of eligibility a long shot
for the junior linebacker
By Rob Moseley
Oregon Daily Emerald
With Oregon junior Peter Sirmon’s season
officially over, Duck fans will have just one
more season to watch the preseason first
team all-conference line
backer in action.
Sirmon underwent
surgery to repair a torn
right pectoralis muscle at
Sacred Heart Hospital
Monday, all but guaran
teeing an end to his sea
son. According to assis
tant athletic director Dave Williford, Sirmon
will be unable to regain the lost year of eligi
bility.
n
FOOTBALL
under normal circumstances, NUAA ath
letes are given a five-year period in which to
complete four years of competition. Article
30.6.1 of the rule book says that athletes can
gain a waiver of that five-year limit if there
is “objective evidence” that the athlete miss
es playing time for "circumstances beyond
the control of the athlete or the institution.”
Because Sirmon’s injury was football-re
lated, and thus under his and the Universi
ty’s control, he most likely will not qualify
for a medical hardship, Williford said.
And because Sirmon utilized his redshirt
season in 1995, his five years of eligibility at
Oregon will end with the completion of the
1999 season. According to article 30.6.1.2,
subparagraph D, of the rule book, a redshirt
season counts as circumstances within the
athlete’s control, eliminating the opportuni
ty to gain a sixth year of eligibility.
“Unfortunately, even had he not redshirt
ed in ’95, he still probably wouldn’t be eligi
ble,” for the medical hardship, Williford
said. “You live by the motto ‘never say nev
er,’but ...”
Williford said the injury would have had
to occur in either an off-season or non-foot
ball setting to warrant consideration for an
extra year of eligibility.
“This is a situation where the standard
medical hardship rules do not apply,” said
professor James O’Fallon, the University’s
faculty athletic representative, who would
be responsible for filing a petition to the Pa
cific-10 Conference on behalf of an injured
player, “I would say right now the prospects
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