Sports Briefs
Rosemond forgoes
final season at UO
Yasir Rosemond has decided
to skip his final season of eligi
bility with the Oregon men’s
basketball team, Ducks head
coach Ernie Kent announced
Thursday.
Rosemond, a 6-foot-l guard
from Atlanta, will graduate this
June with a degree in sociology
and then may play for a season at
a Division-II school while taking
graduate classes.
Last season, Rosemond
backed up both guard positions
while averaging almost four
points, two rebounds and two
assists in about 13 minutes per
game. As a sophomore in 1997
98, Rosemond averaged more
than five points in 16 minutes
per game.
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Quinine, McShane join
new programs
Donte Quinine and Mike Mc
Shane, who both left the Oregon
men’s basketball team last season,
will play next season at Seattle Pa
cific and Montana State-Billings,
respectively.
Quinine, a forward, and Mc
Shane, a point guard, both left the
Ducks about half-way through the
Pacific-10 Conference season.
Brown signs letter of
intent with UO
Amanda Brown became the
fourth recruit signed by the Ducks
for the 1999-2000 season, head
coach Jody Runge announced
Wednesday.
A decorated two-sport athlete at
Sheldon High School in Eugene,
Brown will participate in both bas
ketball and track and field at Oregon.
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Diamondbacks rattle off wins
By Bob Bauri)
The Associated Press
PHOENIX — Much was made
of the Arizona Diamondbacks’
pitching potential after their off
season free-agent spending spree.
Nobody said much about of
fense.
Yet led by a resurgent Matt
Williams, the Diamondbacks are
smacking the ball with the best of
them in the early season.
Arizona is third in the NL in bat
ting with a .280 average and the Di
amondbacks are the runaway lead
ers in the majors in home runs with
30. The pitching, too, has lived up
to expectations. Arizona is third in
the league with a 3.68 ERA.
After a 1-5 start on the road, the
Diamondbacks went 8-2 in a homes
tand against Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco qjnd Philadelphia. They’ve
won four in a row heading into their
longest road trip of the season, with
stops in San Diego, Houston, Mil
waukee and Cincinnati.
For the first time in their young
history, the Diamondbacks have a
winning record, two heady games
above .500, and the catalyst has
been Williams.
He leads the majors in multihit
games with nine. He’s batting a
team-leading .357 with five
homers, seven doubles and 15
RBIs. At 33, he’s off to one of the
best starts of hi$ long career.
After signing a five-year, $45
million contract extension follow
ing his trade from Cleveland,
Williams seemed uncomfortable
as one of the few recognizable
players on a struggling expansion
team last season.
He hit .267 and managed just 71
RBIs while being bothered by nag
ging injuries most of the season.
“He’s got a lot of pride. He
cares,” manager Buck Showalter
said. “He takes on the needs of the
team. There’s no way he could
have supplied everything this club
needed last year, even though he
tried. I think it’s help having some
guys come in here to share the
load. He seems a lot more relaxed. ”
In the off-season, Williams got
married. He worked out rigorous
ly, and watched as the Diamond
backs brought in pitchers Randy
Johnson, Todd Stottlemyre, Ar
mando Reynoso and Greg
Swindell, along with centerfielder
Steve Finley.
The Diamondbacks got Luis
Gonzalez in a trade with Detroit for
Karim Garcia, and brought in Tony
Womack in a deal for a minor lea
guer and a player yet to be named.
Williams, whose three-run
homer off Curt Schilling was the
difference in Arizona’s 4-2 victo
ry over Philadelphia Wednesday
night, says he’s just trying to keep
it simple at the plate, and he
downplays the significance of the
arrival of the other veteran players
in his hot start.
“When you walk to the plate,
it’s you and the pitcher, and when
he releases it, it’s simply you apd
the baseball,” Williams said. “You
try to put a good swing on a good
pitch. That’s as deep as I’m going
to go with it.”
Tennis
Continued from Page 7A
tell to the nation’s No. 42 player,
Geoff Abrams of Stanford. If the
Ducks don’t receive an invitation
to this year’s NCAA Tournament,
Navarro’s straight-set loss will be
the last of his career.
The same holds true for Andrea
Petrovic.
Petro, as her teammates call
her, lost to Stanford’s Jen Heiser,
6-1,6-1.
Senior Shanelle Kaneshiro,
captain of the women’s team, lost
her match against Celena Mc
Courey of Arizona State, 6-3,6-3.
Meanwhile, even if Oregon
doesn’t make the NCAA field this
year, freshman Bertrand Devillers
will have many more collegiate
tennis matches ahead, although
he dropped his outing with
fourth-ranked Ryan Wolters, 6-4,
6-2.
Valerie Young, also a freshman,
didn’t go out easily against Wash
ington State’s Sarah Burrows, bat
tling through a three-set match
that she eventually lost.
Oregon’s highest ranked player,
No. 100 junior Alina Wygonows
ka, lost in straight sets as well.
Janice Nyland, another fresh
man, dropped her first round
match in straight sets to Stan
ford’s Gabriela Lastra.
Another freshman, Adeline Ar
naud reached the second round
after her first-round opponent de
faulted, but then she lost to Teryn
Ashley from Stanford in straight
sets.
Among the men, Guillermo
Carter dropped straight sets to
Andy Posavac of Washington,
while freshman Thomas Schneit
er lost to UCLA’s Jason Cook.
Sophomores David Becker and
Cedric Van Haver both fell in
straight sets.
Becker lost a close second set
and the match to Stanford’s Ali
Ansari. Meanwhile, Van Haver
lost quickly, 6-2,6-2.
The NCAA pairings will be an
nounced early next week, so the
Ducks will wait until then to de
termine if their season will con
tinue.
Softball
Continued from Page7A
Oregon gets a little relief this
weekend when it hosts No. 3 Ari
zona on Friday and No. 10 Ari
zona State on Sunday — Jennie
Cook is expected to return for the
Ducks, Gamez said.
Cook has been out since April
11 and the Oregon has lost five of
their eight games since then. The
Ducks did sweep Arizona State
on March 27 after dropping both
games to Arizona two days earli
er.
Arizona comes to Howe Field
second in the Pac-10 behind
UCLA and leads the conference
in stolen bases. The Wildcats are
led by pitchers Becky Lemke
and Jennie Finch, both of whom
have earned run averages under
2.0.
“We are going to have to
bounce back,” Gamez said. “It’s
time to dig down deep. It’s no se
cret what we have to do — we
have got to come out ready to
play this weekend. We’ve got to
be intense and focused.”
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