Scoreboard
Oregon women lackluster
in Arizona without coach
How significant can a coach’s
presence be?
The Oregon women’s golf team is
finding out the answer to that
question — the hard way—in
Arizona right now.
After one round at the Arizona
Wildcat Invitational, the Ducks
are 17th in a field of 18 teams.
They lead Oregon State by a mere
stroke.
Head coach Renee Baumgartner,
who is expecting a child, did not
travel to Tucson with her team.
Stanford leads the tournament,
five stokes ahead of Duke, the na
tion’s second-ranked team. Ari
zona, host of the tournament and
the top team in the country, is a
stroke behind the Blue Devils.
Oregon shot a team total 312,24
strokes over par. If the Ducks
keep pace they will shoot a 936—
their worst score of the season by
far.
individually, senior Angie kizzo
did well enough to make the top
20, shooting a one-over par 73
and earning a seven-way tie for
19th.
Rizzo, however, could not carry
her team.
Junior Jerilyn White (5 over par,
77) finished 60th, while Pam Sow
den, a senior, shot an eight-over
80 to finish in 80th place.
It got worse. Senior Anika Heuser
finished in 90th piace with a ten
over 82. Sophomore Julia Smith
finished in 95th place of 96
golfers with a 14-over par 86.
The four low Ducks shot a com
bined 37 over par.
The 96th player was Oregon sen
ior Kylie Wilson, participating as
an individual competitor.
Monday’s round may not mean
the end of hope for Oregon. There
are still two rounds to play, the
second round today and the final
round on Wednesday. Each
team’s lowest score is dropped at
the end of the tournament, with
the fifth player’s score used only
in a tie-breaking situation.
Stanford leads the tournament
beca u se of outsta n d i ng tea m
play. Duke’s Beth Bauer leads the
pack, but Stanford has four of five
team members in the top 20.
Stanford’s worst scorer, Hilary
Homeyer, leads the Ducks’ sec
ond-best golfer by two strokes.
by Peter Hockaday for the Emerald
Blazers 105, Celtics 92
PORTLAND (AP)—Arvydas Sabo
nis scored 19 points and Rasheed
Wallace added 16 as the Portland
Trail Blazers won their ninth
straight by stopping the cold
shooting Boston Celtics 105-92
Monday night.
Steve Smith added 15 points for
Portland, which never trailed and
improved its NBA-best record to
42-11. It was the Blazers’ 14th
straight win at the Rose Garden.
Antoine Walker had 24 points and
Paul Pierce and Eric Williams each
had 14 for the Celtics, who shot
just 37 percent from the field and
dropped to 5-22 on the road.
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NBA
Houston vs.
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Spurts
Tuesday
February 22,2000
Volume 101, Issue 102
Effierald
! Kevin Calame Emerald
Monika Gieczys, a freshman from Poland, is already one of Oregon’s most productive players.
Monika Gieczys has followed
Alina Wygonowska’s example
as the second Duck to garner
a national ranking
By Robbie McCallum
for the Emerald
For the past three years,
the Oregon women’s ten
nis team has been led by a
highly touted Polish play
er. Next year, the baton
will be passed to another
talented Polish player.
Senior Alina Wygonows
ka has guided the Ducks to
new heights during her
collegiate career. A native
of Gydnia, Poland,
Wygonowska became the
first Oregon player to ap
pear in the NCAA tourna
ment and the Ducks’ first
nationally ranked singles
player. As she improved
and rose through the col
lege ranks, so did the Ore
gon program.
Head coach Jack Griffin
hopes that the program
will continue to rise after
Wygonowska’s departure
with her heir apparent —
Monika Gieczys. This sea
son, Gieczys (pronounced
Turn to Gieczys, page 8A
(( She’s
an unbe
lievable as
set to the
team and a
very hard
worker
You could
n’t ask for
a better
kid.
Jack
Griffin
head
coach
UO shooting percentages help tell stories
Fittingly, it is
Angelina
Wolvert’s
reliable scoring
touch inside
that saves the
day against
Washington
Oregon Notes
By Mirjam Swanson and Brett
Williams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Angelina Wolvert is just
so money.
So you know the Oregon
women’s basketball team
felt good when the 6-3 jun
ior had the ball in her hands
with the game — and possi
bly the season — on the line
in Sunday’s thrilling 70-69
win at Washington.
“I’m sure whoever got the
ball was going to step up and
make the shot,” Wolvert said
during the post-game show
on KUGN. “We were all just
looking at each other wonder
ing who it was going to be. ”
She has a point. The way
the final few minutes of
Sunday’s game went,
Wolvert was probably right.
Senior guard Nicole Strange
stepped up and started the
decisive 7-0 Oregon run by
making a jumper, and then
sophomore Jamie Craig
head buried a long three of
her own.
It seemed everyone on the
squad, which is currently
ranked 42nd in the Ratings
Percentage Index, was hit
ting when she needed to hit.
But Wolvert always hits
— or at least 60 percent of
the time (122 of 204 on the
season). Her field goal per
centage, boosted by her abil
ity to shake defenders with
an assortment of abrupt spin
moves, is second-best in the
conference behind Ari
zona’s Tatum Brown.
Nobody's throwing in
the towel
In the aftermath of its
worst performance of the
season — a 67-58 loss at
home against Washington
on Saturday night in which
the Oregon men’s basketball
team shot 29.8 percent from
the field — the Ducks insist
there is no reason to wave
the white flag.
With five games to play,
Oregon (18-6 overall, 8-4 Pa
cific-10 Conference) is still
alone in third place in the
Pac-10. A sweep this week
end in Los Angeles would
virtually guarantee Oregon its
first appearance in the NCAA
Tournament since 1994-95.
“We’re still in a decent po
sition,” said forward A.D.
Smith, who had a team-high
seven rebounds and four as
sists against the Huskies.
“We’re in third place. We’re
probably too far back to be
thinking about first or second
right now, but we’re certainly
in a better position than USC
and Arizona State. ”
Oregon head coach Ernie
Kent said it is important that
the unexpected loss to
Washington does not devas
tate team morale.
“They need to remember
that there is still a lot of bas
ketball to be played,” Kent
said.
Striking
similarities
Oregon field goal
percentages:
Men 47.3
Women 46.3
Oregon scoring:
Men 71.5 ppg
Women 70.6 ppg