Ducks find wins on the road
Oregon improved to 11-5
with five wins in six
games in California
By Tim Pyle
Oregon Daily Emerald
With games on three consecu
tive days during the weekend, the
Oregon softball team's schedule
looked like the NBA’s hectic,
shortened season.
Only the Ducks, despite empti
er pockets, played double headers
each day.
And the wear and tear of six
games in three days did not seem
to phase No. 25 Oregon, as it won
its first five games before drop
ping the sixth Sunday afternoon.
The Ducks (11-5 overall) were
rude visitors in Los Angeles on
Friday, as they cruised to a pair of
victories over host Loyola Mary
mount.
Freshman pitcher Connie Mc
Murren sparked Oregon in the
first game, allowing just two runs
on two hits while striking out
eight Lions vs. four walks. Offen
sively, Kelly Planche and Andrea
Gustafson each had two runs bat
ted in to boost the Ducks to a 7-2
victory.
Junior transfer Danielle Haag
provided more sparkling pitching
in the second game, as she per
mitted no runs and iust two hits
while striking
out five in five
innings.
Gustafson went
three-for-three
SOFTBALL
with a double to
lead the Oregon
offense, and the
Ducks cruised to a 7-0 win.
In Saturday’s first game at the
Matador Invitational, senior Katie
Mackey played the hero for Ore
gon.
Trailing 5- 3 with two outs and
two Ducks on base in the bottom
of the seventh, Mackey smashed
a three-run home run to hand
Oregon a 6-5 win over host Cal
State Northridge in Northridge,
Calif.
Triawn Custer also provided of
fensive fireworks for the Ducks as
she blasted her fifth home run in
the fifth inning.
In game two, Oregon — in what
is quickly becoming its signature
fashion — shut out San Diego
State, 4-0, behind the strong work
of senior pitcher Jennie Cook. By
allowing only three hits in six in
nings, Cook improved to 4-1.
Gustafson’s two-run home run
highlighted the Ducks’ four-run
second inning.
Sunday, Oregon concluded its
weekend slate with another win
over San Diego State and an eight
inning loss to Cal-State North
ridge.
In the morning game, the Ducks
scored in each of the first four in
ning to grab an 8-1 lead. Fresh
man Missy Coe went two-for-two
with a RBI, and Custer launched
yet another homer in Oregon’s 9-3
win.
In the afternoon, Cal-State
Northridge was able to hand the
Ducks their first loss of the week
end by tying the game at six in the
seventh inning on Veronica
Lopez’s second home run of the
game. Marisa Ornelas scored the
winning run in the eighth.
Despite the loss, Oregon was
crowned the Matador Invitation
al champion because of its 3-1
record.
Rambis still undefeated as LAcoach
By John Nadel
The Associated Press
INGLEWOOD, Calif. —
Michael, Scottie and Dennis
showed up at the Forum, and it
sure wasn’t like old times.
With Michael Jordan watching
from courtside, Dennis Rodman’s
energy and Rick Fox’s big fourth
quarter helped Los Angeles beat
Scottie Pippen and the Houston
Rockets 106-90 for the Lakers’
first win in four nationally tele
vised Sunday games this season.
Rodman, playing 26 minutes in
his second game for the Lakers,
had two points, 10 rebounds and
two assists in addition to playing
effective defense as Los Angeles
raised its record to 2-0 since Kurt
Rambis was appointed head
coach.
Fox, who didn't play in the first
half, scored 15 of his 21 points in
the first 6:55 of the fourth quarter
to spark a 19-8 run that gave the
Lakers a 96-80 lead — the biggest
of the game for either team to that
stage.
Fox, who played 19 minutes,
made all seven of his field goal at
tempts — including four from 3
point range.
Shaquille O’Neal led the Lakers
with 22 points and seven re
bounds, and Kobe Bryant added
18 points.
Hakeem Olajuwon led the
Rockets with 22 points and eight
rebounds. Pippen had 16 points,
six rebounds, eight assists and
five steals along with five
turnovers, and Charles Barkley
had 14 points and six assists in
his first game since undergoing
knee surgery.
The Rockets trailed by two
points at halftime, but went on a
14-4 run to start the third quarter
for a 62-54 lead.
O’Neal then spearheaded a 15
2 spurt by scoring seven points to
give the Lakers a 69-64 advantage,
and they were on top the rest of
the way. It was 77-72 entering the
final period.
Jordan, who announced his re
tirement shortly after the lockout
was settled, took his seat next to
Jack Nicholson just before the
opening tipoff. Only five minutes
earlier, Nicholson seemed uncer
tain as to whether Jordan would
join him.
Suddenly, several photogra
phers appeared to snap pictures
of Jordan, resplendent in a dapper
gray suit and silver-rimmed glass
es. He continued to wear a ban
dage on the right index finger he
sliced open with a cigar-cutter a
week before he retired, an injury
that required surgery.
Finally, with a break in the ac
tion and 2:01 left before halftime,
Jordan was shown on the video
scoreboard and stood to acknowl
edge the roaring fans.
Jordan and Pippen led the
Chicago Bulls to six champi
onships in an eight-year span in
cluding the last three, when Rod
man was also a key member of the
mix.
After Jordan retired in January,
the Bulls traded Pippen to the
Rockets and made it clear that
without coach Phil Jackson and
Jordan, they couldn’t invite Rod
man back.
After three weeks of uncertain
ty, Rodman finally signed with
the Lakers and played his first
game with them Friday night, get
ting 11 rebounds and six assists in
26 minutes of a 99-83 win over
the Los Angeles Clippers.
The game also marked the re
turn of Barkley, who underwent
arthroscopic surgery to repair a
tear of the medial meniscus in his
left knee on Feb. 14.
Barkley, who averaged 19.2
points and 17.0 rebounds in five
games before sitting out the last
eight, played 19 minutes. He said
beforehand he hoped to play 30
minutes, but would settle for 25.
Sports Brief
Ducks add second
NCAA qualifier
The Oregon men’s track and
field team added its second auto
matic entry to the upcoming
NCAA Indoor Championships on
Friday, thanks to a season-best ef
fort in the distance medley relay at
the Cyclone National Track and
Field Qualifier in Ames, Iowa.
The quartet of senior Greg
James (1,200 meters), junior Nat
Johnson (400), senior Richard
Girvan (800) and junior Steve
Fein (1,600) finished second
overall in a time of nine minutes,
37.25 seconds, losing in the fin
ishing kick to Oklahoma State
(9:36.67). Both the Sooner and
the Duck squads dipped under
the 9:39.75 automatic mark.
The NCAA Indoor Champi
onships will be held March 5th
and 6th at the RCA Dome in In
dianapolis.
“It’s a wonderful step for the
guys, and also our program,”
Oregon men’s head coach Martin
Smith said. “The most important
thing is that four young men,
working as a team, were able to
step up. It’s not always easy to
get four guys to run well at the
same time, so this was a real nice
step, and in a direction that is ob
viously new to us.”
The Ducks entered Friday's
meet ranked No. 10 nationally
with their prior NCAA provi
sional time of 9:46.31 from three
weeks earlier at Iowa State.
With this being the last week
end for NCAA qualifying, the
Ducks settled the issue thanks to
solid efforts on all four legs.
James ran a 2:59 in the opening
1,200 meters, followed by a 47.1
second 400 meters by Johnson, a
1:51 800 meters by Girvan and a
4:00.9 1,600 meters by Fein.
Friday’s effort means Fein
could have double duty next
weekend because he has also au
tomatically qualified in the 3,000
meters.
On the women’s side, Oregon
senior Kaarin Knudson compet
ed in the mile at the Alex Wilson
Invitational in South Bend, Ind.
While the rest of her team took
a week off from racing, Knudson
climbed the NCAA qualifying
list in the indoor mile, finishing
second on Saturday with a sea
son-best of 4:47.4 behind Val
paraiso’s Collette Liss.
“Today’s mark gets her into
the NCAA meet,” Oregon
women’s coach Tom Heinonen
said. “The experience from [the]
race will help her at the NCAA
meet. She was in control early,
moved up in the middle and
then helped force the pace in the
second half and finished strong.”
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