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Bowyer drives through two Oregon State defenders at Gill Coliseum Friday.
Agent for Rodriguez
meets with Mariners
The Associated Press
PEORIA, Ariz. — For a moment
Tuesday, the heaviest hitting at
the Seattle Mariners’ camp wasn’t
in the batting cage.
Agent Scott Boras met with
Woody Woodward, the Mariners’
vice president of baseball opera
tions, in their first face-to-face dis
cussion of the spring over Boras’
star client with the team, short
stop Alex Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is signed through the
2000 season, but so is star center
fielder Ken Griffey Jr. Team exec
utives have repeatedly said they
want to keep both players in
Mariner uniforms, but it still has
n’t stopped speculation that the
only way to afford Griffey in base
ball’s soaring marketplace is to
trade Rodriguez.
“I don’t see anybody tense
here,” Woodward said. “We’ll
talk through the spring and see
what we can get done.”
Woodward didn’t say whether
the talks Tuesday with Boras cen
tered on a new contract for Ro
driguez or even a trade involving
any of the Mariner players repre
sented by Boras. His clients also
include first baseman David
Segui, who is signed through this
season, and minor-league pitch
ers Cam Smith and Damaso
Marte.
Besides meeting with Boras on
Rodriguez and Segui, Woodward
said the M’s are talking with Grif
fey’s agent, Brian Goldberg, plus
the agents for pitchers Jeff Fassero
and Jamie Moyer, whose con
tracts expire after this season. Ro
driguez said he wasn’t aware of
any talks Tuesday between the
team and Boras.
“He (Boras) has other players
on this team, too,” Rodriguez
said.
Segui was part of serious trade
speculation this winter as the
Mariners sought pitching without
getting involved in the free agent
market. Segui’s presence in a
trade equation has diminished,
but the Mariners still are pursuing
help for the starting rotation, plus
a left-handed reliever.
Besides Boras, also at the
Mariners’ camp Tuesday was Don
Fehr, director of the players asso
ciation, who held his annual
spring meeting with the players.
Sports Brief
Emeralds head coach
resigns due to illness
The Eugene Emeralds are in
search of a new coach after the
Chicago Cubs, the Emeralds’ par
ent organization, announced
Tuesday that Bob Ralston, who
had only been with the team
since last December, will resign
because of health concerns with
in his family.
Director of Player Develop
ment Jim Hendry hired Tom
Pratt and Damon Farmar along
with Ralston on December 3rd.
Ralston’s resignation was unex
pected by the team’s front of
fice.
“We were very much looking
forward to having a manager the
caliber of Bob Ralston coming to
Eugene in 1999,” Emeralds Presi
dent Bob Beban said in a released
statement. “However, we would
like to wish him the best and
would hope that he could return
for the 2000 season.”
Hedry felt the same way. “I ba
sically told him [Ralston] that he
had no choice and that he had to
do what was best for him and his
family. He was depressed about
giving it up, but he has to look at
his family first.”
Hendry is optimistic about
finding a replacement.
“We should have one named
by the end of the spring. We are
in no hurry. We want to find the
right guy, the best guy for the sit
uation.”
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Bowyer
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the game she lost.
"It took longer than 1 thought to
get back in sync,” Bowyer says.
“It wasn’t until the trip to Wash
ington where I really got back into
things.”
Against the Huskies in Seattle,
Bowyer had eight points and five
assists off the bench to help lead
her team to an emotional 67-57 vic
tory. That victory was one in a
stretch of nine in a row, which has
put Oregon on the brink of its first
Pac-10 title and in the driver’s seat
to host the first round of the NCAA
Tournament in two weeks.
“This whole season has been
awesome, it’s been incredible,”
Bowyer says. “Everyone is so
close, we just haven’t had any ma
jor problems this year. That’s
been the real key. People have
stayed healthy, for the most part,
and we have never lost sight of
what we want.”
Bowyer, a native of Adelaide,
Australia, first toured the United
States in 1988 with a high school
aged club team that was compet
ing in the Northwest. Bowyer
went to Seattle and Portland and
fell in love with the atmosphere
of women’s college basketball in
America.
Where college and high school
games in Australia would seldom
draw more than a hundred fans,
(( This whole season has
been awesome, it’s been
incredible. Everyone is
so close, we just haven’t
bad any major problems
this year. >>
Lisa Bowyer
Guard
Bowyer says she was “blown
away" with number of fans who
attended women’s games in the
States.
Shortly after she returned
home, Bowyer told her family
that she wanted to come to Amer
ica to go to school and play bas
ketball. But she didn’t think she'd
end up at Oregon. Bowyer origi
nally wanted to attend Washing
ton, which had an opening at the
two-guard position until the
Huskies’ top recruit, Jamie Redd,
was made eligible by the NCAA
after passing her SAT test.
When Washington went with
Redd, who this season became
the school’s all-time leader in
points scored, Bowyer contacted
an old family friend who was
playing at Oregon. The friend
sold Bowyer on Eugene and head
coach Jody Runge's program and
convinced her to give it a shot.
"I think I made the right
choice,” Bowyer says. "I’ve been
given an opportunity to play here
and it’s been great.”
Bowyer's game is defense. It
has been defense since the very
first day she stepped into
McArthur Court.
In high school, and on her vari
ous club teams in Australia,
Bowyer was primarily a scorer.
But over the last four seasons,
Runge and her staff have helped
to transform Bowyer into the best
defensive player on the best de
fensive team in the Pac-10.
"She has the heart of a lion,”
Runge says. "Lisa has worked
very hard to improve her game.
The team looks to her for leader
ship and for a calming presence
down the stretch.”
Bowyer says that being a leader
has always come naturally. But
defense has been something she
has worked very hard to perfect.
“I watch their eyes,” Bowyer
says about her opponents. “I try to
read where other players are on
the court and anticipate who’s go
ing to get the ball. A lot of it is just
being aggressive and just wanting
it more than anyone else.”
Which is why Bowyer plays as
hard at practice on a Tuesday af
ternoon as she does on Saturday
night when the whole world is
watching.
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