UO explodes for 49 runs, beats first four opponents
■ Oregon opens up its 2000 campaign with four straight
wins but falls in the championship bracket
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
Rust? What rust?
The Oregon softball team
jumped out of the gate impres
sively, outscoring its first four op
ponents of the season, 49-10, in
games played on Friday and Sat
urday.
The offensive and defensive
displays at the Texas
Arlington/Isuzu Motors Invita
tional in Grand Prairie helped
propel the Ducks to a 4-0 start and
move them into the champi
onship bracket Sunday.
But then, the bats went silent.
Oregon ran into No. 5 Southern
Mississippi hoping of playing two
more games, but the Ducks sim
The West's stars shine
OAKLAND, Calif. — Vince
Carter started things off with a
dunk worthy of a contest, Tim
Duncan and Shaquille O’Neal
played like MVPs and Karl Mal
one got involved as little as possi
ble.
In an All-Star game that was al
most a microcosm of the first half
of the season, each star had a
chance to show his specialty —
and most of them did.
Behind 24 points apiece from
Duncan and Kevin Garnett, 22
from O’Neal and 14 assists from
Jason Kidd, the West defeated the
East 137-126 Sunday in the 49th
version of the league’s showcase
event.
This was the first All-Star
game since 1998 because last
year’s was canceled by the lock
out.. Heavy on the fancy stuff, the
players put on as much of a show
as they could — and Carter’s por
tion of it happened right off the
bat.
The first basket for the East
was an alley-oop dunk by Carter
off a pass from Allen Iverson,
while the second bucket was a
breakaway slam by Carter that
closely resembled one from the
dunk contest Saturday night.
Carter did a 360-degree spin to
his right, rather than doing it the
easy way by spinning left, and
dunked the ball with two hands.
The East tried to give Carter
another spectacular dunk in the
first minute, but Grant Hill’s al
ley-oop pass off the backboard
was too hard. Later in the quarter
when Eddie Jones tried to zip a
pass to Carter and Iverson de
flected it out of bounds, Jones gri
maced at Iverson as if to say “It’s
him, not you.”
The Associated Press
ply had no answer for Golden Ea
gle pitcher Courtney Blades and
were shutout, 3-0.
Blades confused the Ducks all
game by throwing seven innings
of one-hit ball. She recorded 14
strikeouts an(J three walks, and no
Oregon runner advanced past first
base.
Oregon head coach Rick Gamez
was disappointed with the game,
but he was encouraged with the
weekend overall.
“Today was tough,” Gamez
said. “We chased too many pitch
es, and it took us out of otlr of
fense. But I am pleased with the
way we started the season.”
In Friday’s opening game, the ;
Ducks crushed Tulsa 15-0. Fresh
man Andrea Vidlund threw five
innings of one-hit ball in her first
career start.
The Ducks scored 11 runs in
the second inning.
In the next two games, Oregon
beat Bethune-Cookman 13-5 and
Southwest Texas 10-2. Vidlund
was the star again against
Bethune-Cookman, striking out
six in relief, and adding two hits
and an RBI; Against SW Texas
Custer went three-for-three with
three RBIs.
On Saturday, Oregon knocked
off the host Texas-Arlington Mav
ericks 11-3. Missy Coe (1), Jill
Robinson (2) and Holly Ray (2)
led the Ducks in home runs.
Men’s hoops
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so effective, we knew they were
going to come inside and try and
take it away,” said Kent, who’s
well on his way to leading the
Ducks’ to their first NCAA Tour
nament appearance in his three
years with the team. “We also
had Alex coming off a double
screen, and Flo [Hartenstein]
and Freddie [Jones] set a won
derful screen on the weak side.
They set Alex up for a big-time
three.”
Added Scales: “Coach was
talking about running one of our
set plays, with me coming off
the curl,” said Scales, who fin
ished with eight rebounds and
five assists. “I was coming off
looking for the curl, but the
three was wide open, and they
set a great screen for me. It was
an opportunity to knock it
down, and that’s what I did.”
Scales wasn’t finished. On
California’s next possession, he
stripped the ball and fed it to
Wright, who was fouled and
made both of his free throws to
extend Oregon’s lead to 63-57.
The Golden Bears’ Shantay
Legans cut the lead in half with
a quick three-pointer, and Cali
fornia had to foul Wright again
with less than ten seconds left.
Wright — who was only 2-of
13 from the field in the Ducks’
two Bay-Area games — more
than made up for it at the line.
After missing his first shot,
Wright calmly hit his second to
put the game out of reach.
Kent said Wright fought
through overriding factors to hit
some big free throws.
“He didn’t eat breakfast this
morning because he had a bad
headache, and he was under the
weather,” Kent said. “But he gut
ted it up in this environment, and
he did other things on the floor
that gave us the opportunity to get
out of here with a victory.”
California coach Ben Braun
said he felt Wright found ways ?
to contribute besides scoring.
“Our guys will probably look
at the stats and see Wright was
1-of- 7 from the field and feel he i
didn’t play that well,” Braun 1
told the Register-Guard. “But he >
had no turnovers, and that’s a t
tremendous accomplishment in
a hostile environment. And he
hit the free throws at the end.”
Kent was impressed with his
team’s performance in one of the
more hostile arenas in the coun
try.
“We lost our composure a
couple of times, but we really .
did a good job defensively,”
Kent said. “It was a tremendous
victory out here because this is a
tough environment to play in.”
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