Golfers hope wins keep coming
The women’s team heads to
Oklahoma and the men tee
off in Corvallis looking for
repeat wins in play today
By Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
With first-place finishes in last
week’s tournaments, the Oregon
men’s and women’s golf teams re
sume competition today looking to
make a statement.
This weekend, the women trav
el to the Bama Fall Preview in Tul
sa, Okla., a tournament that invites
the top 18 teams in the nation. The
Preview takes place at the Tulsa
Country Club, also the site of the
NCAA Championships in Novem
ber.
“It is very prestigious to be invit
ed to this tournament,” head
coach Renee Baumgartner said.
“Every team works very hard to be
here. We’ll be able to see where we
are in relation to all the other
schools, so it’s our first real test.”
For a team looking to place high
in the NCAA Championships,
Baumgartner said the Preview will
be a great way to prepare because
the Ducks will be competing on
the same course with many of the
teams that might qualify for the
NCAAs.
“If we finish in the top 10, we’ll
be very happy,” Baumgartner said.
“We don’t know much about the
course, so this will be a great expe
rience to help us know where we
are right now.”
Senior Karen Bristow, who shot
220 during three rounds last week
to win the Portland Invitational, is
expected to lead the Ducks in Tul
sa.
“(The Portland Invitational] was
the first tournament she’s won,”
Baumgartner said of Bristow.
“She’s a solid player, and she has
the best fundamentals on the team.
She holds up under pressure. She
leads by example on and off the
course, and those student athletes
are hard to find.”
Each team member on the trip to
Oklahoma placed in the top 10 at
the Portland Invitational. Claire
Hunter finished second at Port
land with a 223, and Angie Rizzo
finished third, shooting 228. Pam
Sowden and Dawn Berry, who
tied for fifth last
week, qualified
for this week’s
tournament. Jeri
lyn White tied for
. ninui last weeK.
GQtf “We expect
[Bristow] to be
one of our better players, but we
don’t have anyone on our team
who is ranked low in the country,”
Baumgartner said. “We have eight
solid players. All of them can
shoot low. Our strength is our
depth.”
In order to finish in the top 10,
Baumgartner said, the team must
remember to stay focused on play
ing golf and try not to watch the
scoreboard. That caused the team
to shoot a combined score of 312
in the final round last week after
shooting 294 and 302 in the first
two.
“We are going to have fun and
stay aggressive,” Baumgartner
said. “We’re going to take it one
shot at a time, add it up at the end,
and hopefully we’ll be one of the
top teams.”
The men are in Corvallis today
to compete in the Nike Invitational
Classic. The Ducks, who beat Stan
ford in a playoff last week to win
the Husky Invitational in Bremer
ton, Wash., hope for a repeat per
formance.
“We’re going up to Corvallis to
win and to play as hard as we can,
and hopefully we’ll be success
ful,” head coach Steve Nosier said.
“We’re not just having fun driving
vans around the country. We’re
going out there to be competitive.”
Learning the course will be cru
cial if the men are going to win the
tournament, Nosier said. Last
week, the team made multiple
trips to Trysting Tree Golf Club in
Corvallis, where today’s competi
tion will be held.
“We don’t know the course like
[Oregon State] does, but any time
you have local course knowledge
it’s good,” Nosier said. “It’s not
like a basketball court. Every
course is different, and it’s good to
know where the hazards are.
"We know the course, and
we’ve been there many times. We
have to keep our game solid, play
good golf from the first shot we
take. We need to be mentally ready
and have full game preparation.”
Leading the men is Ryan Lavoie,
who shot 212 in three rounds of
play at the Husky Invitational to
win second-place honors. Lavoie
has posted the Ducks’ lowest indi
vidual score in both of their tour
naments this season.
Also making the trip will be An
drew Tredway, who finished sev
enth last week, shooting 216, and
Adrian Burtner, who played a crit
ical role in Bremerton after miss
ing the team’s first tournament.
Ben Crane and Derek Croskrey
will round out the Ducks’ com
petitors this weekend.
Padres pummel Astros 6-1,
head for NL championship
The Big Unit’s World
Series hopes are dashed
as San Diego wins the
division series 3-1
By Bernie Wilson
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The San
Diego Padres are going back to
the NL championship series
after a 14-year absence, thanks
in large part to new hero Jim
Leyritz.
And the Big Unit is not go
ing to make it to the World Se
ries as many thought, because
the Padres beat Randy John
son and the Houston Astros 6
1 Sunday night to clinch the
tense division series three
games to one.
With the crowd of 64,898
hanging on every pitch,
Leyritz hit his third homer in
as many games and 27-year
old Sterling Hitchcock was
dominating in his first playoff
start, using a devastating split
fingered fastball to strike out
11 in six innings.
Johnson lost his fifth
straight decision in the post
season, tying a major league
record. He left for a pinch-hit
ter in the seventh, and reliev
er Jay Powell gave up pinch
hitter John Vander Wal’s
two-run triple and Wally
Joyner’s two-run homer in the
eighth.
“Everybody counted us
out,” Hitchcock said. “They
said we couldn’t beat Johnson
twice in a five-game series.
Well, we beat him twice in a
four-game series. These guys
never let up.”
Trevor Hoffman closed out
the ninth for the Padres, who
move on to face the Atlanta
Braves in the NL champi
onship series starting
Wednesday night at Turner
Field. Atlanta won five of
nine from the Padres this year.
This is the first time the
Padres have been this far
since 1984, when they beat
the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS
only to lose the World Series
4-1 to Detroit.
Tony Gwynn, 38, is the
only player left from that
Padres team, although Bruce
Bochy is the manager and
Tim Flannery the third base
coach.
1 he Astros, who led the NL
in scoring this season but
managed just eight runs in
this series, go home frustrated
for a second straight year, hav
ing been swept by Atlanta in
the first round in 1997. Hous
ton has been in five postsea
son series, and lost all of
them.
Ricky Gutierrez kneeled in
the on-deck circle for a few
minutes after the game ended,
sending the Padres bursting
out of the dugout and fire
works bursting overhead.
Craig Biggio sat in the dugout,
staring at the scene.
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