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Oregon head coach Jody Runge signs a basketball for an adoring fan at the NCAA pairings party at Mac Court on Sunday.
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the Year for the second time in her tenure at Ore
gon. Runge led the Ducks to their best overall
record since she arrived at Oregon. This season
marks the first Pac-10 championship for the
Ducks.
Freshman point guard Shaquala Williams was a
large part of Oregon’s successful season. The
Troutdale, Ore., native became Oregon’s first play
er in history to be named Pac-10 Freshman of the
Year.
Even more impressive, however, was Williams’
selection to the All-Pac-10 team. Only four fresh
man have earned that honor since the conference’s
inception in 1986-87.
“I was more excited about making the All-Pac-10
team,” Williams said. “It’s like in professional bas
ketball, they can say you’re the rookie of the year,
but to say you’re one of the 10 best players in the
league, that’s a big honor.”
Williams averaged 14 points per game and three
assists since becoming a starter on Jan. 15. Not
only does Williams run Oregon’s offense, she is
solid from the free throw line as well, converting
78 percent of her shots, which is third-best in the
conference.
Sophomores Meharry and Jenny Mowe and se
nior Natasha O’Brien received honorable mention
votes for the All-Pac-10 team.
Allison Ross is a sports reporter for the Emerald. She can
be reached via e-mail at aross@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
Padres’ Hoffman signs for 32 million
By Bernie Wilson
The Associated Press
PEORIA, Ariz. — San Diego
Padres closer Trevor Hoffman be
came baseball’s highest-paid re
liever Monday when he agreed to
a $32 million, four-year contract
extension through 2003, the Asso
ciated Press learned.
The deal, which also is the
largest in club history, followed
an offseason of change for the
Padres. They lost several marquee
players after the New York Yan
kees swept them in the World Se
ries, some because they couldn’t
afford them, and others in order
to get younger and faster.
The Padres now have the two
relievers with the highest average
annual salaries in baseball. Randy
Myers is owed $6 million this
year in the middle year of an $18
million, three-year deal he signed
in November 1997 with Toronto.
Acquired Aug. 6, Myers was in
effective and has been on the trad
ing block, but the Padres would
have to eat some of his salary in
any potential deal.
Hoffman’s extension includes a
$10 million club option for 2004
which, if exercised, would make
the deal worth $40 million over
five years. The club has a $2 mil
lion buyout and, for the first time
ever, has granted a no-trade
clause.
Either way, Hoffman, the pre
mier closer in baseball last year
with 53 saves in 54 chances,
gets what he wanted — an $8
million average annual salary.
His last two deals have been at
the so-called San Diego dis
count, and Hoffman, who want
ed to remain with the Padres,
made it clear that a new deal
would be on his terms. He set a
deadline of opening day for
completing an extension.
Hoffman, 31, will be paid $4.1
million in 1999, the final year of
an $8.4 million, three-year exten
sion he signed in August 1996.
The largest previous deal in
Padres history was the $15.5 mil
lion, three-year contract given to
left-hander Sterling Hitchcock,
the MVP of the NL championship
series, on Jan. 27.
General manager Kevin Tow
ers, who attended the Padres’
game against San Francisco at
Scottsdale on Monday, wouldn’t
confirm or deny the deal. A
source familiar with the deal,
speaking on the condition he not
be identified, said San Diego
planned to announce it Tuesday.
Hoffman was not at Monday af
ternoon’s game, but said earlier in
the day that talks were “moving
in the right direction.”
Just a few days ago, Hoffman
wondered whether a deal would
get done. But talks proceeded at a
remarkable clip after Hoffman
met this weekend with owner
John Moores and club president
Larry Lucchino, who were in
town for the club’s board of direc
tors meeting on Saturday. Hoff
man summoned his agent from
Florida, and negotiations went
late into Sunday night.
“Really, it’s been a lot of KT’s
(Towers’) input in regard to get
ting stuff started,” Hoffman said.
“I don’t know if they want to wait
until the start of spring.”
Hoffman’s .981 save percentage
last year was the best in major
league history and his 53 saves
tied the NL record. He made the
All-Star team for the first time and
was runner-up to Atlanta’s Tom
Glavine in the NL Cy Young bal
loting.
The Padres were 62-4 in games
in which Hoffman pitched. His
only blown save came on July 26,
when he allowed Moises Alou’s
first-pitch homer in the ninth.
That came one day after he
matched Rod Beck’s big league
record with 41 straight saves, a
mark later surpassed by Boston’s
Tom Gordon.
Retaining the popular reliever
is certain to be a hit with the
fans, who saw Kevin Brown,
Steve Finley and Ken Caminiti
leave as free agents, and Greg
Vaughn and Joey Hamilton de
part via trades.
The Padres traded Vaughn in
part because of his potential free
agent status, and Hoffman feared
he might be traded for the same
reason. Now he becomes the first
player locked up through 2002,
when the club is scheduled to
move into a new downtown ball
park that was overwhelmingly
approved by voters two weeks af
ter the World Series.
Even with all the offseason
moves, the Padres project a player
payroll of about $48 million, a $3
million increase from the figure
they opened 1998 at.
The Padres might have signed
Hoffman for an average of $6
million a year in November, but
the team broke off talks. The
market moved substantially
when the division rival Los Ap
geles Dodgers signed Brown to a
$105 million, seven-year deal in
December.