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THURSDAY
Oct. 1,1998
TRIVIA QUESTION
In what year was the first World Series
cancelation?
Trivia Answer in “The Box”
Major League
Baseball
Chicago 1
Atlanta 7
WP-J. Smote
IP- M.Ciari?
Boston 5
Cleveland 9
WP-D. Burba
LP-T. Wakefield
S- M.Jackson
Texas 1
New York 3
WP- A. Petfitte
LP-R. Helling
TODAY S MU
GAMES
San Diego
Houston
Chicago
Atlanta
Major league
Soccer
New Jersey 3
Columbus 5
Miami 1
D.C. United 2
Boston
2
Detroit 2
New York 1
Montreal 3
Toronto 4
Dallas 1
Phoenix 2
Colorado 2
St. Louis 3
Los Angeles 3
San Jose 2
Calgary 3
Vancouver 3
TRIVIA ANSWER
In 1904when (Hants
Best Bet
MLB
San Diego
at Houston
1:07 p.m., ESPN
1998 Oregon Soccer
Nick Medley/Ememld
Freshman Chalise Baysa (right) leads the Ducks in scoring with six goals in six games.
Baysa leaves high school,
steps into the limelight
The freshman doesn’t relish
attention, but her coaches
say she can’t be ignored
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
Chalise Baysa does not relish
the spotlight.
But it took her just one colle
giate game to find it.
In Baysa’s Oregon soccer debut
against Tennessee on Sept 4, the light
started shining on her immediately.
Well, almost immediately.
After starting the game on the
bench, Baysa was substituted into
the game at forward midway
through the first half. The Ducks
trailed the Volunteers 1-0 at half
time, but Baysa scored three goals
in a 25-minute period, celebrating
Oregon’s first game at Pap6 Field.
The Ducks had a 3-1 win. And a
new star.
That scintillating performance
set new Oregon records for goals
and points in a game. Baysa has
not left the Duck lineup since.
When the game was completed,
the unassuming Baysa was more
inclined to joke with friends than
talk about her heroics. In fact, she
could not even recall how each of
her goals developed.
“I was ready to play because of our
new field, and I looked and saw a
whole bunch of people on the side,"
Baysa says. “And it was our first
game and against a good team too. ”
Three days later, Baysa headed
aside any whispers that she
would be a one-game wonder. Al
though she is listed at just 5-foot-4
and is probably at least a couple
inches shorter, Baysa unveiled an
aerial display to lead the Ducks to
a home win over North Carolina -
Greensboro and a 2-0 start.
She provided all of the Oregon
scoring again in the 2-0 win, this
time out jumping taller oppo
nents to head two crosses past the
Spartan goalkeeper.
With five goals in two games,
Baysa had already equaled the total
that Kristi Morris and Sierra Marsh
scored to lead the Ducks in 1997.
Since then she has added her sixth
goal, which was Oregon’s only score
during its trip to Hawaii on Sept. 18,
which resulted in a 2-1 loss to
Hawaii and a 2-0 loss to San Diego.
However, Steffen says he is not sur
prised at Baysa’s immediate impact.
“I expected her to contribute,”
head coach Bill Steffen says. “Ob
viously she made a great impact
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Ripken amazes
again with his
sense of timing
Throughout his 18 seasons in a Bal
timore Orioles uniform, Cal Rip
ken Jr. has displayed a wealth of
skills, justifying his status as a fu
ture Hall-of-Famer.
His 384 career home runs are a full 107
more than the second-best mark ever by a
shortstop, that being Ernie Banks.
He holds the record for consecutive error
less games by a shortstop with 95 in 1990, a
remarkable feat for a man who is 6 feet 4
inches and 220 pounds but plays the most
demanding position in baseball other than
catcher.
And he should surpass the 3,000-hit bar
rier around August of next season, as he
needs just 122 after 1998.
bui as KipKen nas snown
again and again over the past
few seasons, something
more intangible than raw
physical skill has become his
most valuable asset to the
team, its fans and the game
of baseball: his sense of tim
ing.
OPINION
just more tnan a week- LJL...A_i
and-a-half ago, Ripken re- pnk
moved himself from the Ori- .. .
oles’ starting lineup for a MOSeley
game against New York, thus ——
ending his streak of 2,632 consecutive
games played.
The moment was nearly lost amidst the
hoopla of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa
chasing, and eventually surpassing, Roger
Maris’ historic home run record, the tension
of the three-team National League Wild
Card race and the magnitude of the Yan
kees’ season-long domination of the Ameri
can League.
And so, Ripken's streak ended in precise
ly the same manner in which it began: not
with a bang, but with a whimper.
On May 30,1982, Ripken trotted out to
third base for the Orioles. Twenty-seven
games later he replaced Len Sakata as the
Orioles’ everyday shortstop, and it
would be more than 16 seasons later be
fore the team’s lineup card would again
be without the name Ripken among the
starters.
Sixteen seasons. A ridiculous 2,632
games. Just 18 other players active for both
the beginning and end of the streak. Three
presidents over five terms. Two twisted an
kles and one sprained knee. And no days
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Wygonowska achieves highest-ever UO ranking
The tennis teams start their
seasons with some help from a
nationally ranked player
By Mirjam Swanson
lor the Emerald
The sun broke through for the Ore
gon men’s and women's first tennis
practices this week, shining on two
programs with increasingly bright
prospects.
Alina Wygonowska, the Ducks’ No.
1 player, is ranked 34th nationally by
the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
That’s the highest any Oregon woman
has ever been ranked.
“She played exceptional tennis [last
season] and really took a step up in her
game,” said Jack Griffin, head coach of
the women’s team. “She added some
things to her game that she didn’t have
her freshman year. She really saw her
game grow, and the ranking mirrors
that. She’s happy, and we’re trying to
explain to her that it’s quite an accom
plishment, but what that’s going to do
is make more people hungry to beat
you.”
Wygonowska’s teammates return
healthy after a season full of injuries.
Three new recruits join the 1998 roster,
which Griffin says will be “the best
team we’ve had.”
“With Adeline [Amaud], Janice Ny
land and Valerie Young, we’re really
pleased with the way they’re looking
at practice and the way they’re hitting
the ball,” Griffin said. “All three of
those players have capabilities of real
ly competing at a high level at the Pac
10.”
Entering his third year as the head
coach of Oregon’s men’s team, Chris
Russell is also very pleased with how
his players returned from the summer.
“All of them have come back in
good form.” Russell said. “We're
where we’d like to be in terms of the
condition level we’re in and some of
the technical improvements that we’ve
made. The returning guys, Guillermo
Carter, Carlos Navarro, Miguel Arriaga
and David Becker, are looking solid
right now.”
Oregon’s returners will have help
from their lone current recruit: Bertron
Devillers, who arrived from Belgium.
Devillers has greatly impressed Russell
in his first days as a Duck.
“I think he’s really going to help us a
lot.” Russell said. “He’s got a lot of ex
perience and a lot of intelligence. He
seems like a great addition. Not only
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Wygonowska File
■ YEAR:
Sopho
more
■ Home
town:
Gdynia,
Poland
■ STATS:
Garned Pac-10 Northern Con
ference first team honors as a
freshman... Competed most of
season at No.1 position in sin
gles ... member of Polish na
tional team in 1991