Sports briefs
Oregon outside hitter
leads nation in kills
Oregon senior volleyball
player Madeline Ernst leads the
nation in kills, averaging 5.84
kills per game, as released by the
NCAA Sept. 29.
The all-American candidate
from St. Paul, Ore., recorded her
1,000th career kill against UCLA
on Sept. 25, only the sixth time in
Duck history that this feat has oc
curred . Her 1,018 career ki 11s rank
her fifth all-time in school history.
Earlier this year, Ernst regis
tered 38 kills in a five-game loss
to Wake Forest. It was the sec
ond highest single-game kill to
tal in school history and the tops
by a Pacific-10 Conference per
former this year. She has record
ed double-digits in kills in 12 of
Oregon’s first 13 games this sea
son and has had seven games
with 20 or more kills.
UO men hire second
track assistant coach
The transformation of the
Oregon men’s track and field
coaching staff was completed
earlier this month when new
head coach Martin Smith an
nounced the hiring of Tony
Vesey as assistant in charge of
jumpers, sprinters, hurdlers and
multi-sport athletes.
Vesey, a 45-year-old native of
Compton, Calif., served as head
coach of the Cal State Los Ange
les women’s team for the past
three years.
“There were a lot of things
that attracted me here,” Vesey
said. “But what really impresses
me is the atmosphere in gener
al. The people here love their
Ducks, but they respect honest,
hard work. Vesey joins fellow
assistant Stewart Togher, the
throws coach, under Smith.
Smith, former head coach at
Wisconsin, will replace the leg
endary Bill Dellinger as head
coach of the men’s track and
field team beginning in the
spring.
Ducks’ Smith named
player of the week
Quarterback Akili Smith was
named Pac-10 offensive player of
the week following his 357-yard,
4-touchdown performance
against Stanford Sept. 26.
Smith, a senior from San
Diego, Calif., led Oregon to a 63
28 victory against the Cardinal.
Smith completed 15 of 21 pass
es (.714) in the first half and fin
ished the game totaling 18 of 29
(.621) completions with touch
down passes of 37,13,35 and 29
yards. The Oregon offense piled
up 29 first downs, 307 yards
rushing and 357 yards passing
for 664 yards total offense, just
three yards shy of the Ducks’
single-game record. Oregon’s 63
points was its most ever in a Pac
10 game and the most ever at
Autzen Stadium.
Duck football players
among national best
The Oregon Ducks received
multiple mentions in the most
recent college football statistical
leaders.
Reuben Droughns and Her
man Ho-Ching have paced the
Ducks to 10th in the country in
rushing offense with 245.3
yards per game. Missouri leads
the nation with 310.7 yards per
game.
Oregon is also 26th in the na
tion in net punting with a 38.2
yard average, 10.6 yards per
punt less then national leader
Kansas State.
On the other side of the ball,
Michael Fletcher has led the
Ducks to 13th in the country in
punt returns with a 15.1-yard
average. Kansas leads the nation
with a 26.8-yard average.
Moseley
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off.
Besides the injuries, the closest
the streak ever came to ending
prematurely was at the onset of
the 1995 season, when the strike
of 1994 nearly carried over into
the following season and pro
voked the owners to employ re
placement players.
That didn’t happen, and with a
month left in the 1995 season,
Ripken broke one of the longest
standing records in the game.
At the time, baseball was in the
throes of one of the bleakest de
pressions in its history. The strike
of the preceding year, when the
World Series was canceled for
just the second time since its in
ception, had cost the game a large
portion of its audience. The pop
ularity of basketball was skyrock
eting, and even ice hockey was
threatening to become a major
force on the American sports
scene.
But then, on Sept. 6 at Camden
Yards, Ripken did the same thing
he has for nearly 13 years and in
the process helped baseball re
claim a majority of the audience it
had lost in 1994.
He played ball.
By starting that game, Ripken
had officially played in his
2,131st straight game, breaking
the record held by the Yankees’
Iron Horse of a half-century ago,
Lou Gehrig.
Ripken’s timing couldn’t have
been better. It was as if he had
known those 13 years earlier that
he would be needed by the game
and its fans to respark the interest
that had captivated Americans for
an entire century.
And by the same token, it was
as if, last Sunday, before the Ori
oles-Yankees game, Ripken sat
back, folded his arms and said,
"My work here is done.”
The popularity of the game was
at a peak unseen in at least 20
years, with even the most casual
of fans checking the evening high
light shows and the morning pa
pers to see whether McGwire or
Sammy had hit one, whether the
Giants could catch the Cubs and
Mets and whether the Yankees
could indeed establish them
selves as one of the best teams
ever.
Ripken saw all of this happen
ing and quietly took a seat.
Not the greatest sense of drama,
but certainly an uncanny sense of
timing.
Rob Moseley is the assistant sports ed
itor for the Emerald. He can he
reached via email at dodgrfan @
Gladstone, uorepon edit.
Baysa
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in those first couple of games, but
the hard part is to try to keep it up
after that. I think her real impact
has yet to be seen or felt."
That trip to Hawaii represented
a homecoming of sorts for Baysa.
After being born in Honolulu,
Baysa and her family moved to
Japan when she was 3.
Her family lived on a small
army base in Japan — her dad is an
industrial engineer — until she
was 9, before they moved again to
Oak Harbor, Wash.
It was in Japan that Baysa says
she first started playing soccer, but
the sport was always a family affair.
Her dad coached her when she
was younger. Her mom attended all
of her games. Her older sister,
Marisa, earned a soccer scholarship
to Toledo, where she is now a junior.
Baysa starred as a prep at Oak
Harbor High School, being named
to the all-Wesco Conference first
team all four years, leading her
team in scoring every season and
tallying 68 career goals.
But Steffen did not find Baysa in
tiny Oak Harbor, which is on an island
in Northern Washington about 90
minutes from the Canadian border.
“Some of our current players
were on a club [soccer team] called
the Royals,” Steffen says, “and I
managed to stay in contact with
some of their coaches. In watching
some of their games, I noticed
Chalise — obviously, she’s the
kind of player that you notice. ”
Steffen was not alone in his pursuit
of Baysa. She says her final choice
was between Oregon and Virginia be
fore she opted to become a Duck.
“When I came here, it was fun,"
Baysa says. “All the girls were nice to
me and everything. I liked the cam
pus, it wasn’t too big, it wasn’t too
small. It wasn’t too far from home.
“And it was Pac-10, Division I,”
she adds with a smile.
Now that she is in Eugene, Baysa
has had a big hand in Oregon’s best
ever start at 3-3. The third-year
Ducks won just five games in each
of their first two seasons.
Goalkeeper Amanda Fox says
Baysa’s work ethic and aggressiveness
have rubbed off on the rest of the team.
“She has a great desire to win,”
Fox says. “Every time in a game,
she wants to score for us. And if
she can’t score, she’s working for
someone else to score. ’’
Forward Erin Anderson, who is
Oregon’s career scoring leader,
says Baysa has added a new di
mension to the team.
“She’s very fast, real quick,” An
derson says. “She gets to all the
free balls. She’s just a spark plug.
She’s everywhere.”
Steffen knows Baysa gets to the
ball quickly, but he says speed is
not the only reason why.
“A lot of the times it looks like
she’s just fast, but she's beyond
that, she also reads things very
well," Steffen says.
Teammates and coaches have
no problem pointing out her
strengths.
But Baysa does. She would
much rather talk about all the
weaknesses she says she has.
“1 need to improve on heading,
getting the ball out of the air and not
getting pushed off the ball all the
time,” Baysa says. "My first touch
has to be tetter I think, and I’ve got
to finish better sometimes.”
Weaknesses or not, the spotlight
is not wandering from Baysa any
time soon.
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