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Ducks in Hawaii for tournament
■ Seeking postseason play,
the Oregon golf team will
play in 3-day competition
By Peter Hockaday
for the Emerald
For the Ducks, redemption is
spelled W-a-i-k-o-l-o-a.
The men’s golf team is in Hawaii
for the three day Taylor
Made/Waikoloa Intercollegiate
Tournament, which starts today.
This will be the Ducks’ first tour
nament since a fourteenth place
finish at the Ping Arizona Intercol
legiate two weeks ago. With only
five tournaments before the Pacif
ic-Ten Conference Championships,
Oregon needs a strong showing to
keep postseason hopes alive.
Once again, head coach Steve
Nosier will rely on senior co-cap
tains Ryan Lavoie and Andrew
Tredway to lead the team both with
scores and motivation. Lavoie and
Tredway have accounted for the
team’s two lowest scores in all their
tournaments this year.
“If Andrew’s playing well,”
Nosier said, “he really gets the kids
pumped up. The leadership you
get from Ryan is by example.
Chris Carnahan, Aaron Byers
and Brandon Harnden round out
the team. •
Twenty-four teams will play in
the three-day, 54-hole tournament.
The Kings’ and Beach Golf Course
in Waikoloa, Hawaii will host the
tournament. The format of the tour
nament is such that the four lowest
scores from each five-man team
count towards the team’s final
score.
Many of the Pac-10 teams that
gave Oregon trouble in Arizona will
be in Hawaii as well. Washington
State and California are the only
Pac-10 teams who will not compete.
The Pac-10 is arguably the
strongest golf conference in the na
tion, with six schools among the
top 25 in Golfweek’s power rank
ings. Arizona State leads the way
in eighth place, while Stanford
(12th), Washington (14th), South
ern California (16th), Arizona
(17th) and UCLA (23rd) round out
the conference’s top 25 teams. Ore
gon is 50th in the rankings.
Nosier said his team’s play
shouldn’t be influenced by the
strength of the field. “I don’t think
how they play anects us, rosier
said, “We’d love to finish ahead of
all of them.”
Although the Ducks didn’t do
as well as they had hoped in Ari
zona, the experience from that
tournament should help in
Hawaii. The Arizona tournament
was the first for the golfers since
November.
The Ducks have been in
Waikoloa since Saturday, and the
extra time, Nosier said, should
help in today’s action. The team
played the Kings’ and Beach
Course twice this week, a privi
lege they didn’t get in Arizona.
“We played pretty well in the
practice rounds,” Nosier stated,
“but sometimes when you turn
the lights on it’s a different story.”
The team needs a good showing
to keep dreams of the postseason
at least tangible. From the Pac-10
championships, only a handful of
teams will advance to the West Re
gional tournament in May.
If the Ducks can do well now,
they will have a better chance of
making that regional. The top
teams from regionals go to the
NCAA Championships in June.
Portland wins war against Warriors
PORTLAND, Ore. — Arvydas
Sabonis scored 20 points and
Scgttie Pippen hit a 3-pointer with
38 seconds left as the Portland
Trail Blazers beat Golden State 99
95 on Wednesday night.
Golden State’s Donyell Mar
shall hit two free throws with 54
seconds left to put the Warriors
ahead 93-92, but Pippen, who fin
ished with 16, followed with his
3-pointer and Damon Stoudamire
made four free throws.
The Trail Blazers improved to
an NBA-best 40-11 with their
sixth straight victory. Stoudamire
finished with 19 points.
Mookie Blaylock had 22 points
for Golden State.
Portland overcame an eight
point deficit in the fourth quarter,
tying it at 86 with 4:21 left when
Pippen drove the lane and found
Rasheed Wallace on an alley-oop.
Stoudamire put Portland ahead
89-86 with a 3-pointer with 3:24
left, and the Blazers went up 92
86 on Sabonis’ hook shot and
Stoudamire’s free throw. But
Golden State scored seven straight
points to take a 93-92 lead.
Portland opened the third quar
ter with a 16-5 run to take a 61-49
lead on Steve Smith’s 3-pointer
with 6:13 left. The Warriors ral
lied with a 7-2 run to cut the lead
to six at 75-69.
The Associated Press
of UO students
drink 1 or fewer
days a week...
or don’t drink
at all.
Data taken from the 1998 CORE Survey
New View 2000
Office of Student Life
University of" Oregon