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Numbers tell it: Pac-10 a trip
■ Tara VanDerveer doesn’t plan any changes — whether
her No. 24 Cardinal is rolling or not
Women’s Notes
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
A single-handed 12-point run
ain’t bad.
Stanford forward Lindsey Ya
masaki scored the last 12 points of
the first half against California last
Saturday, and by doing so turned
a shaky 11-point Cardinal lead
into a convincing 23-point advan
tage.
Twenty-fourth ranked Stanford
(11-4 overall, 4-1 Pacific-10 Con
ference) won 83-57 and Yamasaki
finished with 17 points.
Not a typical performance from
someone coming off the bench.
But not an atypical showing for
Yamasaki, the two-sport star from
Oregon City who is averaging 10.4
points in less than 20 minutes per
game.
Coach Tara VanDerveer has
openly expressed her displeasure
with Yamasaki’s decision to play
volleyball last fall — the Cardinal
volleyball team reached the na
tional championship and lost to
Penn State.
And despite Yamasaki’s gener
ally impressive play since return
ing to the basketball court seven
games ago, VanDerveer hasn’t
changed her tone or her policy of
excluding dual-sport athletes
from her starting lineup. Kristin
Folkl, another former Stanford
volleyball and basketball stand
out, was also regulated to reserve
duty throughout her career, al
though VanDerveer seemed more
willing to deal with Folkl’s situa
tion.
“I like our lineup,” VanDerveer
said in response to a question
about Yamasaki’s role on the
team. “People are playing well.
We’re starting the people who are
doing the best for us out there.”
So Yamasaki, a starter all last
season, won’t start this year?
“She’s come off the bench and
helped us in some games. And
that’s great.”
$30,000
Thirty thousand dollars is a lot
of money.
A $30,000 bond was paid for
the release of Ayesha Rembert, a
junior forward at UCLA, follow
ing her arrest last Wednesday.
And the No. 10 Bruins indefi
nitely suspended Rembert last
Thursday, following her arrest on
suspicion of burglarizing the
home of a fellow UCLA student.
Reportedly, Rembert is alleged
to have stolen several items, in
cluding a laptop computer and a
leather jacket early on Dec. 27.
Rembert — who was averaging
less than five minutes a game for
the Bruins — was taken into cus
tody following a practice at
Pauley Pavilion.
It’s just more adversity for a
Bruins team that has already
dealt with key injuries, several
lopsided losses and harsh pub
lic criticism by starting point
guard Erica Gomez.
Thirteen minutes
Thirteen minutes is a long time.
It’s how much time Southern
California coach Chris Gobrecht
gives her players to run 11/2
miles. Either that or sit.
No sweat, they’re Division-I,
Pacific-10 Conference athletes,
right?
Never until this season.
Rather fortunately for Oregon,
Portia Mitchell, one of 25 high
school athletes invited to try out
for the USA Olympic team in
1998, still hasn’t conquered that
now-infamous 13-minute test.
“It’s unfortunate because when
we signed Portia what we had in
mind was that she would be one
of those people who could help
us against [the size] that Oregon
brings into the gym with [6-foot
5] Jenny Mowe and [6-3] Angeli
na Wolvert and [6-1] Brianne
Meharry,” Gobrecht said.
“They’ve got some of the biggest
kids in the Pac-10. So that was our
idea with Portia. But it’s not
gonna happen.”
Though Gobrecht certainly isn’t
pleased with the scenario, she
used this week’s Pac-10 confer- **
ence call to dispel some of the
criticism Mitchell’s been receiv
ing — because her player has
been getting clowned in newspa
pers from Seattle to Los Angeles.
“She cares a lot about the
team,” Gobrecht said. “And she is
working very hard on her condi
tioning, it’s just that she had such
a long way to go.”
Tennis
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meanor helped him evolve into a
leader on and off the court.
“Peoplesee that he leads by ex
ample,” Russell said. “He is one of
those guys who has a good pres
ence. He can walk into a room and
not say anything, but you know he
is there.”
Junior David Becker was one of
those players who looked to Carter
for leadership. As a young player,
Becker saw the example Carter set
and tried to follow his footsteps.
“He kind of took me under his
wing last year,” Becker said. “He set
a good example for me on what an
Oregon tennis player should be.”
Over the last couple of seasons,
Russell’s program has lost players
to transfer and graduation. Carter
has been one of the few holdovers
for the team. That’s something
both Russell and Becker see as in
dicative of his commitment to the
success of the program.
“He was one of the first guys I re
cruited who has been here the
whole time,” Russell said. “Some
guys don’t care as much when
they are seniors, their level of play
drops off, but that hasn’t hap
pened with him. That shows he is
a special person and player.”
Becker also sees Carter’s commit
ment as a benefit to the program.
“His sticking with us shows a lot
about his character,” Becker said.
“It shows what he means to the pro
gram, and what we mean to him.”
Unlike some stars, Carter is more
interested in team success then in
his own. Before his career is over,
he would like to see the Ducks
record their first Pac-10 win.
“As a team I liked to see us get
our first Pac-10 win,” Carter said.
“Individually, I want to have a
winning record. If I do that then I
have a pretty good season.”
Surprisingly, one of the strengths
that Carter brought to the program
has been his doubles play. Accord
ing to both Russell and Becker, his
play has improved during the four
years he’s been at Oregon.
“He is a stalwart doubles player,
which surprised me at first, ” Russell
said. “His play has really helped the
rest of the team in that aspect. ”
Becker echoes his coach’s
thoughts.
“His doubles play is at a very
high level,” Becker said. “Which
shows the younger players how to
play.”
Carter took this fall off to com
pete on his own, something that
he and Russell agree helped ele
vate his game to another level,
which in turn will help the Ducks
have a successful spring.
“He has come back with a good
perspective,” Russell said. “He
has eased back into things with a
maturity we haven’t had'in the
past. That will definitely help us.”
Carter also sees the benefit of
playing on his own during the fall.
“I think it helped me a lot,”
Carter said. “As the season starts,
you want to have a lot of match
play experience. That helps a lot
with your confidence. Last fall, we
didn’t play a lot of matches, and
whenjthe winter season started it
took a lot of us a while to get used
to the matches.”
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