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■ The men’s golf team will
try to do what the women
could not — win in Tempe
By Peter Hockaday
for the Emerald
While it may be raining outside,
the sun is shining on the men’s
golf team.
But then again, the sun always
shines in Arizona.
The Oregon men’s golf team has
recovered fully from a poor start
this winter and is now performing
well on the brink of the postsea
son. But as the women’s team
found out last weekend, Arizona
s can be unkind to teams on a roll.
The men are in Tempe, Ariz., to
; day for the Thunderbird Invita
tional. The Arizona State-hosted
event boasts a field of 17 teams —
15 of which are among the top 50.
Last week the women went into
; Tempe under similar conditions
and finished 13th of 15 teams.
As if that weren’t enough com
petition, Oregon will once again
battle top Pacific-10 Conference
foes, No. 4 ASU, No. 12 Arizona,
l No. 16 Southern California and
- No. 20 UCLA. At the Western In
' tercollegiate last week, the Ducks
■ placed first among six Pac-10
schools.
Senior co-captain Ryan Lavoie
was able to stave off the Pac-10
competition at the Western last
week as he led the Ducks to a
fourth-place finish. Last year,
Lavoie dominated down the home
stretch of the season, pacing the
Ducks at the Pac-10 champi
onships and making the final cut
— the only Oregon golfer to do so
— at the NCAA Championships.
Lavoie will need to work his
magic again if
the Ducks want
to make the
NCAAs for the
third year in a
row. The last
time the Ducks
made three
straight NCAA Championships
was in 1976-78, when now tour
pro Peter Jacobsen led Oregon to
three top-11 finishes at college
golf’s Super Bowl.
Senior co-captain Andrew Tred
way, freshman Chris Carnahan
and juniors T.J. Duncan and Matt
Genovese round out the Oregon
team.
The surprising Duncan will be a
key for the Ducks in Tempe. Dun
can had placed eighth and fifth at
the Southwest and Duck Invita
tionals, respectively, before a dis
mal 86th at the Western Intercol
legiate last week. Oregon’s per
formance at those tournaments
mirrored Duncan’s play: the
Ducks took third at the Southwest,
second at the Duck and fifth at the
Western.
Another Oregon player to watch
is redshirt freshman Chris Carna
han. The Albany native had an
impressive fall season, finishing
with the second-best stroke aver
age on the team over the course of
four tournaments. After head
coach Steve Nosier kept him
home for the Cleveland/South
west Intercollegiate in February,
Carnahan came back with a
vengeance, placing 19th at the
Duck and 14th last week at the
Western.
With the Pac-10 Champi
onships in two weeks, there will
be no better preparation for Ore
gon than the Thunderbird Invita
tional. While the Ducks took on
the conference lightweights last
week and won, this weekend they
will need to beat the heavyweight
Arizona schools as well as all
those other Pac-10 teams.
The Thunderbird Invitational is
at the Karsten Golf Course, the site
of the Pac-10 Championships in
two weeks. The golfers will play
two 18-hole rounds on Saturday
and one 18-hole round on Sunday.
i Blazers defeat struggling Spurs
By Kelley Shannon
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Rasheed
Wallace scored 27 points to lead
the Portland Trail Blazers to a 93
77 victory Thursday night over
the San Antonio Spurs, who
struggled without an injured Tim
Duncan.
The Blazers shot 56.5 percent
from the field for the game, a sea
son high for a Spurs opponent.
Portland amassed a 55-39 lead by
halftime, and added to that edge
in the third period. A 3-pointer by
Steve Smith put the Blazers
ahead 68-47 midway through the
quarter.
San Antonio, trailed 77-59 at
the start of the fourth and by dou
ble digits the rest of the way.
Duncan watched from the side
lines, out with a cartilage tear in
his left knee. An MRI exam
Thursday detected the tear, from
when he attempted a dunk
against Sacramento on Tuesday.
He’s also listed as doubtful for
Saturday’s key Midwest Division
showdown against Utah.
Duncan averaged 19 points and
seven rebounds in the Spurs’ pre
vious three games against the
Blazers this season. In the last
meeting, a Spurs victory on
March 28, he had 36 points and
15 rebounds.
His injury is a big setback for
San Antonio as the defending
NBA champion embarks on the
final stretch of the regular season
with hopes of improving its play
off position to gain home-court
advantage in the first round. San
Antonio is fifth in the Western
Conference, 11/2 games behind
the fourth-place Phoenix Suns.
Samaki Walker started in place
of Duncan, scoring 13 points and
grabbing 10 rebounds before leav
ing with a dislocated finger in the
fourth quarter. David Robinson
led the Spurs with 16 points and
added nine rebounds.
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