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The Oregon Club Sports cycling team is all smiles in Boseman, Mont., last weekend after advancing to die nationals.
Courtesy photo
Club Sports
Cycling team makes
way to nationals
What a month it has been.
On March 26, the Oregon Club
Sports cycling team started its sea
son with hopes of reaching nation
als.
Fast forward one month, and
the team has achieved its goal and
now looks to conquer new ones as
the Ducks will compete in nation
als May 13-14 in Greenville, S.C.
The road to South Carolina was
not an easy one as it included four
different races in Seattle, Spokane
and Richland, Wash., and just this
past weekend Oregon was in
Boseman, Mont.
Boseman was the site of the
conference championships,
where the team competed with
schools from the states of Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana. Heading into last weekend,
the team knew it had to do well in
order to go on.
“We earn points for each race
that we compete in, and it is the
combined point totals from all the
races that qualifies a team for na
tionals,” Amy Piasek-Kluge said.
“We had done well in our previ
ous races, and with the champi
onships accounting for the most
points, a strong weekend was very
important for us.”
Oregon had just that as it not
only qualified for nationals, but
captured the No. 1 seed in its high
ly competitive conference.
The squad consists of 20 skilled
cyclists, but unfortunately, only a
select few get to make the trip east.
Those Ducks are Ashley Collins,
Jim Anderson, Tom Nelson, Steve
McFarland, Brian Feuentes, Dave
Johnson and Piasek-Kluge.
“We would love to have every
body there because getting to na
tionals really was a team effort,”
Piasek-Kluge said.
Having reached the destination
that it had set out for, the team
now must get ready for the intense
road ahead.
“All along, we knew we would
be a strong team because of our
many great riders,” Piasek-Kluge
said. “Now, we get the chance to
prove it on a national level. ”
Ultimate frisbee at
home for regionals
Eugene is the place to be this
weekend.
After last weekend’s tuneup at
UC-Davis, the No. 23 Oregon Club
Sports ultimate frisbee team is
ready to host the biggest event of
the season.
A total of 29 teams, 16 men’s
and 13 women’s, will be compet
ing in the
ultimate
frisbee re
g i o n a 1 s
with every
body’s ulti
mate goal
set on
reaching nationals, which will be
held May 15-16 in Boulder, Colo.
Last weekend, the team traveled
to UC-Davis to play in its final
preparation tournament. Oregon
played a total of five games and
came away with four wins. That
successful trip has the players
confident and eager for this week
end.
“We have as good a chance as
anybody of making it to nation
als,” Will Birdsong said.
On Saturday, the tournament
begins with round-robin games
between all the schools. Then, the
top eight teams from Saturday’s
games advance to Sunday, when
the teams will compete in a dou
ble-elimination tournament with
two regionals berths on the line.
All games will be played on the in
tramural fields close to Hayward
Field.
The team hopes that having the
home-field advantage will help if
find success.
“It’s always great to play in front
of a lot of fans,” Birdsong said.
“We would love to have some fan
support and get some fans to heck
le and yell at the other teams. ”
Baseball team beaten
by Humboldt State
This was not what the Oregon
Club Sports baseball team had
hoped for.
A week after reeling off three
wins in two days, Oregon trav
eled to Areata, Calif., to take on
Humboldt State in a doublehead
er.
The two games were played
Sunday under gorgeous blue
skies, but unfortunately for the
Ducks, the results weren’t quite as
pretty.
In the first game, Oregon got
outhit 15-6 and outplayed alto
gether, losing 13-6.
Of the six hits, however, three ,
were home runs by Kerry Jenkins,
Tim Bogner and Isaac Isaia.
In the second game, the team
jumped out to a 6-0 lead heading
into the bottom of the third.
But once again, Oregon could
not hold onto its big lead as walks
and poor defense led to Hum
boldt State scoring four runs in
the third inning and six in the
fourth.
Humboldt State eventually
added three more runs to secure a
13-9 victory, which dropped the
Ducks to 5-13.
Once again, there were offen
sive bright spots for Oregon, as
Shanti Perry went three-for-four
with a home run, and Isaia also
went three-for-four with a homer.
As the season winds down
with games this weekend against
either Humboldt State or South
ern Oregon, the Ducks know that
offense alone will not win games
and hopes to improve defensive
ly
“We’ve got to start getting our
pitchers the confidence that they
need,” player-coach Ryan
Williams said, “and our defense
can’t keep getting down on them
selves after one bad play.”
— by Jeff Smith
Sports Briefs
Linebacker dismissed
from football team
Linebacker John Harris was dis
missed from the Oregon football
team Tuesday for an unspecified
violation of team rules, Ducks
head coach Mike Bellotti an
nounced.
As a true freshman last season
Harris played in four games or
special teams. He missed the final
two games after suffering a torr
anterior cruciate ligament in his
left knee in Oregon’s home victo
ry over Washington.
The 6-foot, 212-pound native of
Chino, Calif., was listed fifth on
the Ducks’ middle linebacker
depth chart at the start of spring
practice.