Baseball seeking revenge
■ The Oregon Club Sports
baseball team gets back
into the swing of things in
its season-opener
By Shigenari Matsumoto
for the Emerald
The Oregon Club Sports men’s
baseball team starts its season
against the team that ended it for
them last year.
For their season opener the
Ducks face Humboldt State Uni
versity in a double-header on
March 4 at 11 a.m. at Willamette
High School.
First-year coach Rich Fay said
the Ducks are looking forward to
paying Humboldt back.
Oregon has come together as a
team that really wants to win,
Fay said.
“I told them at the first meeting
that we are going to win the
championship,” Fay said. “We
were not going to fool around
and be the worst team in the
league anymore.”
Isaac Isaia, one of six returners,
is set on contributing to such suc
cess.
“I just want to get some hits,”
Isaac said. “Help the team out
and have some fun.”
Twenty-two team members
have been practicing since No
vember at the inside practicing
facility underneath the bleachers
of Hayward
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mound, a few
batting nets
and a space where the players
can play catch.
The completion of the new turf
field has helped the team devel
op a solid defense, Fay said.
The Ducks have a strong line
up that include catchers Brandon
Cress well and Keyonosh Maljai,
shortstops Suguru Saito and
Corey Maynard, who will take
over Saito’s position after he re
turns to Japan, and outfielder Ty
Cademartori.
The Ducks pitching staff is also
loaded with talent eager to prove
their potential.
“The pitchers on this team
have great quality,” said Fay. “I
am confident to send anyone out
to the mound.”
The Ducks’ three starters are
Zach Ross, Kurt Langworphy and
Darrick Manezes. Ross is a hard
throwing right hander, with an
unhittable slider. Lefty Langwor
phy keeps hitters off-balance
with his curve balls and sliders.
Manezesis a rookie who has good
placement and velocity.
Regan Shaller and Corey May
nard will be the closers for the
Ducks. Shaller, a southpaw who
delivers a good fastball, is expect
ed to be Oregon’s go-to guy.
Hitting, defense and pitching
are important, but the players’
desire to win is the team’s glue.
“We have players who are not
afraid to take a pitch in their
back, and we have pitchers who
will make the batters hit ground
balls,” Fay said.
“I think this year will be great.”
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their lunch money like some big
bully,”
But it’s fairly easy to see why
people would think that of Ore
gon’s starting forward. He is 6
foot-9 and weighs 265 pounds.
His body is chiseled, his shoul
ders broad. And when he gets that
certain look on his face, his bald
head and goatee only add to the
perception of meanness.
Yet he’s the polar opposite.
“Flo is one of the warmest hu
man beings that I’ve had the op
portunity to coach,” head coach
Ernie Kent said. "He has tremen
dous heart and does a wonderful
job handling his situation. You
won’t find many people his age
that would even be able to cope
with what he does on a daily ba
sis.”
Which is being a student, an
athlete, a father and a husband.
All roles that Hartenstein cher
ishes.
“It’s a lot of work, but I love to
do it,” Hartenstein said. “I love
my kids, my wife and everything.
They’re all real supportive, and it
all pays off when I see them at the
games laughing and smiling.”
Hartenstein speaks and acts like
someone far beyond his 23 years.
He graduated from Springfield’s
Thurston High in 1996 after com
ing to America as a foreign ex
change student from Germany.
The Thurston High School shoot
ings in the spring of 1998 were
disturbing to him for an obvious*
reason.
“It’s really scary,” Hartenstein
said. “I have a first-grader, and for
me to be afraid about, sending my
child to school is tough.”
While other teammates go out
after practice, he heads straight
home to see his wife Theresa, sev
en-year old daughter Jasmine and
almost two-year old son Isaiah.
Jasmine is Theresa’s child from a
previous relationship.
Hartenstein wakes up every
morning between 6 and 6:30 a.m.
to take his kids to school. And af
ter a long day of his own school
and hoops, he returns home be
tween 7 and 9 p.m. “to basically
wake them up and put them back
to sleep.”
Kent knows that Hartenstein’s
off-court behavior certainly affects
his basketball play.
“The biggest area is his sense of
responsibility,” Kent said. “He un
derstands what it takes to be ac
countable all the time because he
is in a situation where he must be
accountable. There are no days
and nights off when you’re raising
children.”
Although Hartenstein’s overall
stats of 3.7 points and 3.7 rebounds
a game are hardly eye-opening, it is
his on the court presence that im
presses teammates.
“When he’s at home he takes
care of his family, and when he’s
out here he plays hard,” senior
forward Alex Scales said. “He has
the ability to score the ball. He
works hard, and it’s just a matter
of him going out and doing it.”
In this Oregon season, the home
loss to Washington on Feb. 19 is
seen as one of tjbe low points, but
it was one of Hartenstein’s best
games. He started out by sending
a shot by Husky forward Chris
Walcott into the stands. He then
repeatedly overpowered the
Husky big men to post nine of his
season-high 12 points in the first
half. At one point, Hartenstein
was so dominating that the “Pit
Crew” began chanting, “Flo’s on
fire!”
“Flo is playing a lot better late
ly,” sophomore guard Freddie
Jones said. “He has more confi
dence when he gets the ball down
low and makes his move.”
Hartenstein can muscle up with
anybody on the court or in the
weight room where he benches
and squats 300 and 450 pounds,
respectively.
“His strength is awesome right
now,” Kent said. “Coach [Mike]
Bellotti always tells me he’d love
to have him out there in football. I
think he’d make a great defensive
end.”
“In the summer time when I’d
be working out, Coach Bellotti
would tell me that he has a spot
open for me,” Hartenstein said.
“He always jokes around about it.
So that’s funny.”
But Hartenstein loves his bas
^ Flo is one of the
warmest human beings
I \e had the opportunity
to caoch. He has tremen
dous heart and does a
wonderful job handling
his situation. You won't
find many people his age
that would even be able
to cope with what he
does on a daily basis.
Ernie Kent
head coach
11
ketball. And with the recent loss
of starting forward A.D. Smith, he
will be counted on to step up to an
even larger role. He knows that he
must improve on his team-leading
80 fouls this season.
“I would say I don’t ever foul,
but the refs see it differently,”
Hartenstein said. “Lately, I’ve
been doing better so I need to con
tinue to work on it.”
Hartenstein is excited about the
postseason possibilities and what
he will be able to contribute to the
team with his tough-minded
tenacity.
But as his then-roommate
Bryan White soon discovered
back in 1997, Hartenstein is as
genuine a person as they come.
“I’m pretty much a teddy bear
off the court,” Hartenstein said.
“But I always say that the teddy
bear can turn into a grizzly bear.”