Oregon Club cyclists race through weekend
■ The Club Sports cycling team enjoys a successful
weekend in Seattle with several top-10 finishes
By IngeMcMillenand
Shigenari Matsu moto
for the Emerald
Nine members of the Oregon
Club Sports cycling team returned
from a point-harvesting weekend
of racing in Seattle, with one first
place and several fourth-place and
top-10 finishes.
Oregon’s Steve McFarland
rolled into first place in the criteri
um race Saturday, which was the
best individual finish for the
Ducks last weekend.
“All week, I could smell victo
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ry, so Monday I bought a bottle of
champagne,” McFarland said.
“Saturday, we drank it.”
Oregon’s only female racer,
Ashley Collins, hauled home
fourth place on both Saturday and
Sunday.
Brian Fuentes took fourth place
in the road race but felt he had
overtrained the last week, which
didn’t allow for adequate rest, he
said, “but the weather was really
great, and we did well as a team."
Jim Anderson and Zach Winter
also finished toward the top and
raced fast, Daimeon Shanks said.
Shanks finished fourth in the cri
terium race, which was his best
finish of the trip.
With these results and two more
events to go in the regular confer
ence before the regionals, the cy
cling team is eying a trip to nation
als in Ohio five weeks from now.
“There are four teams right now
that are vying for two spots, and
we’re very close,” Shanks said.
This weekend, the Ducks sport
ed five A-team racers, three B
team racers and one female racer,
Shanks said. Oregon competed
against Montana State, Oregon
State, Idaho, Washington and
Washington State.
“Bicycle racing is totally strate
gic,” Fuentessaid.
Different team members have
their specialties, he explained.
Some are sprinters who rule in cri
terium races, while others are bet
ter at climbing and road racing.
For example, team members try to
help each other to the best places
in their specialties. Racers take
turns shielding from wind and
other strains, and they try to keep
other teams from sprinting off
from the pack and into the break
away group of lead racers.
However, the collegiate confer
ence is not as intimidating as the
national racing environment. It is
more relaxed, and everyone races
for the fun and the camaraderie in
the conference, Shanks said.
“Everyone is really friendly,” he
said. “We train together; we stay
together and have a lot of fun as a
team.”
Ultimate feels pain of defeat
Losing hurts. Whether the game
is a test match or a regular season
match, it still hurts. The Oregon
Club Sports men’s ultimate frisbee
team (15-7) learned just that play
ing in the Davis Ultimate Invita
tional this weekend, which will
not affect the national standing.
Oregon’s main objective was to
get experience for the younger, in
experienced players on the team
and rest the veteran players who
have suffered injuries from the
grueling matches throughout the
season.
The Ducks’ A team went 3-2 in
the tournament but lost 13-11 to a
UC-Davis team that was at full
strength.
“There were some great steps by
the new players, but we were not
happy with the overall outcome,”
Joshua Greenough said. “The tour
nament was a teaching lesson, and I
think that our younger players
learned the lesson of a close loss too.
I hope they will learn from this. ”
Oregon will play in the Ore
gon/North California College Sec
tion Tournament, which eventual
ly leads to the national
tournament, this weekend.
Baseball can’t overcome
municipal distractions
Head coach Rich Fay was fum
ing after his team’s 6-2 loss against
Southern Oregon on Saturday, but
the
anger
was to
w a r d
the
city’s
treat
ment of
the Ore
gon Club Sports baseball team.
South Eugene High School ini
tially denied Oregon use of the field
after the team had arrived, and Fay
let the team go home. Later, the
school reversed the decision, and
the Ducks (3-2) had to play without
their clean-up hitter iy Cademar
tori and a couple of starting pitch
ers. Oregon has had trouble getting
a field to play on all season.
“I cannot imagine our players to
have their heads in the game if
something like this keeps on hap
pening,” Fay said. “We have a
team that can go all the way to
Utah [for the championship], but
now the city is against us. ”
The Ducks finished with a 1-2
record last weekend.
“I am not as happy as last week
end, but we still have a winning
record in the league,” Fay said.
“And that’s what matters. ”
The Ducks lost 4-2 in the first
game of the double-header the fol
lowing day despite strong per
formances from Regan Schaller
and Zach Ross.
“There is no reason we should
have lost the game,” Fay said.
“You cannot score two runs and
expect to win. We are a lot better
hitting team.”
Oregon proved that by scoring
13 runs in the next game, which
they won 13-6. The Ducks looked
shaky defensively, giving up three
runs in the first inning. After the
inning, Fay called the whole squad
together in front of the dugout and
told them that if they wanted to
win, they needed to score in the
next inning. The Ducks did just
that, scoring four runs to get on top.
The Raiders tied the game the next
inning, but Oregon catcher Key
onosh Maljai’s RBI double in the
second inning put the team ahead
for good. Maljai finished the game
with three hits and five RBIs, in
cluding one of three home runs for
the Ducks. Center fielder Ross fol
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