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Wednesday
March 3,1999
The University and KVAL-TV in Eugene, in
conjunction with ESPN Regional, have final
ized arrangements to televise Thursday
night’s women's basketball game against
Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., Director of Ath
letics Bill Moos announced Tuesday.
Senior guard Lisa Boivyer has become an
intimidating defensive presence for the Ducks
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ihis is where it
starts.
_ It’s late Tuesday
McArthur Court. Wearing the
same green, perforated-mesh top that she's
worn for four sea
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“I'm an aggressive, scrappy kind of play
er," the 5-foot-8 senior says. “It’s not always
pretty.”
Some might call Bowyer a throw-back to
the “good old days” of college basketball
when the best players weren’t always the
most athletic and the shortest players could
sometimes stand taller
sons, Lisa Bowyer
is diving across the
hardwood floor to
save an errant pass
from going out of
bounds.
Lunging forward,
she saves the ball
and fires a bullet
pass across her
body to a teammate
who quickly feeds
the ball down low
to another team
mate who lays the
ball in.
Ho hum. Just an
other weekday prac
tice.
On defense now,
then the rest.
She has certainly
filled that role this sea
son. Bowyer has aver
aged 24 minutes a
game for the Ducks af
ter breaking a bone in
her finger in the Port
land Jam tournament
during winter break.
The injury sidelined
Bowyer for six weeks
and kept her out of
Oregon’s Pacific-10
Conference openers
against California and
Stanford. It was an
emotional time for the
senior, who had never
had a serious iniurv
Kowyer shadows
guard Nicole
Strange across the
Matt Hankins/Ememld
Bowyer shadows UCLA guard LaCresha Flannigan in the
Ducks' 106-79 victory on Feb. 4 in Los Angeles.
during her career. For
a born leader not to be
able to direct her
top ot the key, then in
stinctively turns to her left and strips the
ball from her opponent in the post. The
loose ball is kicked around for a moment,
then corralled by Bowyer as she lands to the
floor with a thud.
This is where it starts. What fans see on
Thursday and Saturday nights during the
season — Bowyer sending her body parallel
to the floor after a loose ball, Bowyer ripping
the ball from an opponent’s grasp then lead
ing an Oregon fast break in the other direc
tion — is the end result of a thousand or so
Tuesday afternoon practices.
troops into battle,
Bowyer found it difficult to adjust to life on
the sideline.
But as it has turned out, the break provid
ed Oregon and Bowyer with a much needed
break from each other. In Bowyer’s absence,
the Ducks opened conference play 5-1,
which included wins over Pac-10 heavy
weights Stanford and Washington.
As result, Oregon learned it could play
well and win without its leader in the line
up, and Bowyer had a renewed passion for
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Oregon men unable to better standing in Cleveland
The Ducks
finish in
11th place,
with one of
their players
finishing
tied for 18th
place
By Mirjam Swanson
lor the Emerald
After the third and final round of play at
the Cleveland Golf Southwestern Intercol
legiate Invitational, the Oregon men’s golf
team wasn’t able to improve on its 11th
place standing.
But the Ducks didn’t lose any ground, ei
ther.
On Tuesday, the team recorded a final
score of 891 at the tournament at the North
Ranch Country Club in West Lake Village,
Calif.
Oregon was led by the efforts of Andrew
Tredway, who finished the tournament
tied for 18th place. He recorded a final
score of 219.
Texas, No. 4 in the nation, won the tour
nament with a score of 219.
New Mexico finished second with 866,
nine strokes behind Texas.
Joel Hendry, from New
Mexico, never relin
quished his grasp of first
place throughout the tour
nament as he claimed the
individual crown. He
ended up with a final
score of 208, narrowly de
feating Washington’s Troy Kelly in a one
hole playoff.
Texas’ David Gossett finished third with
a score of 209, while Joel Kribel of Stanford
grabbed fourth, scoring 210. Two players
tied for fifth.
Oregon’s Ryan Lavoie cooled off a bit af
ter a fast start on the tournament’s first day
but still contributed a solid performance
for the Ducks. He finished with a score of
220, good for 23rd place.
Ben Crane wound up with the third
highest score for Oregon. He finished in a
tie for 45th with a score of 227.
Also in action for the Ducks was Derek
Croskrey, who claimed a tie for 62nd place
with a score of 234.
Meanwhile, Brandon Harnden recorded
a final score of 235 and finished tied for
66th.
Oregon’s next action will be as hosts of
the Oregon Duck Invitational in Eugene on
March 22-23.
Leaderboard
1. Texas 857
2. N. Mexico 866
3. Houston 867
4. Pepperd. 875
5. Ariz. St. 877
6. Wash. 879
7. BYU 881