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Scoreboard UO track & field: Head coach Martin Smith announced Monday that the Oregon men’s track and field team has signed its first group of high school athletes for the upcoming season. Two of the state’s best pole vaulters, Trevor Woods and Caleb Krantz, will be Ducks, as well as New York-native Aaron. Emery, who is one of the na tion’s top-50 distance runners. Baseball: CHICAGO (AP) — The deci sion by the White Sox to post pone Monday’s game might benefit them more than the Mariners, but Seattle manag er Lou Piniella wasn’t com plaining anyway. The game between the White Sox and Mariners was called because of cold weath er and will be made up as a doubleheader Aug. 8. “I think it’s very prudent on their part to cancel the game,” Piniella said. “I know it’s darn cold and it’s miser able and we went through three days of this in Detroit and it wasn’t any fun. This is a Green Bay Packer day.” NFL: ELLENSBURG, Wash.(AP) — Central Washington University running back Dan Murphy has signed a free-agent contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Murphy was not selected in last weekend’s NFL draft, but he says he received calls from both Dallas and the Seattle Seahawks. “When the Seahawks called, they were still trying to figure things out," Murphy said in a CWU news release. “They left things kind of open. But when the Cowboys called, they were ready to offer a deal. That was enough for me.” He will report to a three-day minicamp in Dallas on April 27 and return May 16. “The Cowboys said they’d have only their starting full back in camp, so they wanted another one,” Murphy said. Olympics: LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Don’t believe all that bad news coming out of Sydney as the Olympics approach — it’s all media hype and political grandstanding. That’s the message from a top International Olympic Committee executive on the eve of a review of Sydney’s preparations for the games. With less than five months before the opening ceremony, Sydney appears mired in trou ble — from ticketing contro versies, labor disputes and threats of violent protests by Aboriginals. Best Bet • NBA: Seattle vs. Sacramento 7:30 p.m., TNT Sports Tuesday April 18,2000 Volume 101, Issue 133 Emerald A record-setting run ... ,. Kevin Calame Emerald Jill Robinson has spent her final season closing in on several Oregon records. She’s one home run away from tying Katy Stahl for most career home runs, with 31. UO rides streak into second half Some record setters have led the Ducks to a comfortable mid-season spot and have them poised for a good second half of season play By Matt O'Neill Oregon Daily Emerald The first half of the Pacific 10 Conference softball season was a half of streaks. The No. 23 Oregon Ducks (29-17 over all, 4-6 Pac-10 ) are in the mid dle of a five-game winning streak, the last three wins com ing in the Pac-10. But before this current stretch, the Ducks dropped five in a row — all conference games. During the losing streak, Oregon’s offense only managed 15 hits in five contests, four of them being the home stand which included No. 1 Wash ington, No. 3 UCLA, and No. 12 Oregon State. Freshman Andrea Vidlund managed the homestand’s only run on her first home run of the season. As the Ducks’ luck changed so did their offensive effective ness. In the last five wins, Ore gon bats have produced 33 hits and 23 runs. The power has returned as well. There were six home runs, a double and 22 runs bat ted in. Senior Andrea Gustafson led the weekend charge, going four for 10 with two RBIs in three games against No. 9 Stanford and No. 8 California. Assault on the record books Senior cen ter fielder Jill Robinson has spent her final season as a Duck rewrit ing many of the Oregon ca reer records. Coming into the year, Robinson was tied with SOFTBALL teammate Triawn Custer for fifth all-time in home runs with 18. She was sixth in RBIs with 91 and seventh in hits at 165. With 12 round-trippers on the year, Robinson has moved into sole possession of second-place with 30 — only one behind Kathy Stahl at 31. While her 38 RBIs are second on this year’s team behind Lindsey Welch’s 40, Robinson remains second behind her teammate with 129 career RBIs, 10 behind Welch’s all-time mark of 139. Robinson has climbed four spots on the hits list so far with her 47 base hits this year. Her 212 career hits are third best in Oregon history, and she is only 22 hits behind Julie Cavanaugh for No. 1 all-time. Like Robinson, Welch is aim Turn to Streak, page 9 Oregon leaders Batting average Custer .388 Robinson .348 Gustafson .341 Coe .336 Weich .325 On-base percentage Custer .453 Robinson .418 Welch .411 Coe .403 Gustafson .401 Oregon athletes make most of weekend A couple of Oregon Club Sports cyclists are among the many Oregon athletes in weekend competitions By Inge McMillen and Shigenari Matsumoto for the Emerald Sunday marked the final stage of the Tour of Willamette stage race and a temporary end to the suffer ing for the two Oregon club cyclists who competed. It’s the natural elements as well as the steep, grueling course that makes tl\p Tour one of the toughest stage races in the United States, said Oregon’s Daimeon Shanks, who raced for Hutch’s bike shop team. “It’s a step up from any thing else you can do around here,” Shanks said. “The size and the quality of the field is just a great experience.” The rain made the narrow roads slick, and marginal race planning at times compro mised safety in several stages. During Sunday’s road race, one field of racers descended a large hill that another group was climbing, resulting in two crashes between bicy clists. Additionally, a section of the race cov ered a gravel road where racers e n - countered flat tires and other mechanical problems. “But you can’t let yourself get knocked around,” said Shanks, who was crashed into by an out-of-control rid er. The other rider was lean ing on Shanks for several minutes before he finally fell down, leaving Shanks behind the main field for a while as he struggled to keep his bal ance, stay upright and count er the weight of the other. Shanks expects the experi ence from the large, long race to add to his ability to race in other competitions beyond the collegiate level later this season. While he thinks he will always be involved in bi cycle racing, he does not an ticipate becoming a profes sional racer. “To be a professional racer involves incredible amounts of pain, dedication and sacri fice for very little reward,” Shanks said. “This is nothing Turn to Club Sports, page 8 (( Tobeapro fessional racer involves incredi ble amounts of pain, dedica tion and sacri fice for very lit tle reward. Daimeon Shanks Oregon cyclist
