Scoreboard
NHL Playoffs
Flyers 5, Sabres 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
The Buffalo Sabres kept
stalling and stalling, ex
pecting Dominik Hasek to
steal a game. While they
were waiting, the Philadel
phia Flyers swiped the se
ries.
The Flyers scored two rel
atively soft goals against
the NHL’s premier playoff
goaltender, one by Dan
McGillis and the other set
up by him, and closed out
the Sabres 5-2 in Game 5 of
their NHL first-round series
Thursday night.
Devils 4, Panthers 1
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) —
Martin Brodeurand New
Jersey’s stifling defense
held the Florida Panthers
to one goal for the third
straight game Thursday
night, ending the Devils’
first-round playoffs woes.
Brodeur made 33 saves
and Sergei Nemchinov
scored twice in the final
four minutes as New Jersey
beat Florida 4-1 to sweep
the best-of-seven series.
The Devils advanced to the
second round for the first
time since 1997, where it
will play Philadelphia.
Baseball
Reds 11, Giants 1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Ken
Griffey Jr. threw his slump
. to the wind.
Griffey hit a pair of 400
foot homers into a swirling
wind Thursday, leading the
Cincinnati Reds to an 11-1
victory over the reeling San
Francisco Giants.
Barry Larkin also hit a
two-run homer and Pokey
Reese matched his career
high with five hits as the
Reds (8-7) moved above
.500 for the first time this
season.
They’re a month ahead
of last year, when they did
n’t have a winning record
until May 19, then finished
with 96 victories.
NBA
SEATTLE (AP)—The Seat
tle SuperSonics are still cel
ebrating because they
don’t have to play the Los
Angeles Lakers in the first
round of the playoffs, only
the not-as-powerful Utah
Jazz.
“No one would want to
play the Lakers,” center
Horace Grant said.
“They’re playing such great
basketball right now.”
The Sonics missed the
playoffs last season when
the NBA owners locked out
the players for 32 games.
As the No. 7 seed in the
West, Seattle will open a
first-round series against
Utah Saturday.
Best Bet
NHL: San Jose vs. St. Louis
Game 5 Western Conference
quarterfinals
Friday
April 21,2000
Volume 101, Issue136
Emerald
■After trying her hand at basketball, senior
infielder Andrea Gustafson has found her
niche at Oregon, going from a walk-on
sophomore to a senior leader
By Matt O'Neill
Oregon Daily Emerald
Her path to softball stardom
was not the typical one. In fact,
she didn’t want to play college
softball at all. She wanted to
play basketball. But now she is
an integral part of the No. 18th
ranked team in the nation.
Senior infielder Andrea
Gustafson
had basket
|ball on her
mind when
she enrolled
at Lane Com
munity Col
lege. But in
stead she joined the club
softball team because the bas
ketball team was not very good
and she wasn’t having any fun.
“It wasn’t what I expected,”
Gustafson said. “I was kinda
upset with that decision [to
play basketball] because I al
ways knew I was a better soft
ball player.”
After two years of club soft
Turn to Softball, page 16A
SOFTBALL
She was
a kid that
would
come out
and stay
late She
has worked
herself into
a darn
good player
Rick Gamez
head coach
_n
Senior Andrea Gustafson (20) is a valuable asset to the 18th
ranked Oregon softball team as a steady force at second base
as well as a spark in the lead-off spot.
Track teams ready themselves for UW battle
On tap
What: Track and
field
Who: Washing
ton vs. Oregon
When: noon
Where: Hayward
Field
■ Oregon men want to reclaim their •
tradition of beating Washington on an :
almost annual basis :
By Scott Pesznecker •
Oregon Daily Emerald j
The most time-tested rivalry of Oregon •
men’s track and field is about to make its first I
appearance of the new millennium. •
The Oregon-Washington dual dates back to :
1900, with the Ducks holding a dominant 85- •
32 edge in the series. History skipped a gen- l
eration when the two schools didn’t schedule •
a dual last season, but the Huskies did beat l
Oregon, 133.5-101.5, at the Pepsi Invitation- •
al. :
Obviously, the Ducks want to get back to •
their winning ways when they meet again on j
Saturday. The first running event is the 1:45 •
p.m. steeplechase. Action concludes with the :
4x400-meter relay at 4:15 p.m. •
“That would be a really special afternoon •
if we beat a team as strong and as solid as l
Washington’s team,” Oregon head coach •
Martin Smith said. “It will be a real formida- l
ble challenge for our guys and a good athletic •
test for us.” :
But it’s going to take everything Oregon has •
Tu m to Men's, page 10A •
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Members of the Oregon women’s track and
field team were scattered all over Southern
California last weekend, doing their respective
thing in three different meets.
But beginning at noon this Saturday, the
Ducks switch it up, returning home to compete
as a cohesive unit against rival Washington at
Hayward Field in Oregon’s only dual meet of
the season. In comparison, Saturday’s dual
will be the Huskies’ eighth of the year. They’re
4-2-1.
But this one, for Northwest bragging rights,
is special. Always is.
“They’ve had somebody do seven events
against us on two occasions,” said Tom
Heinonen, the man who’s headed the Oregon
program for more than 24 years. “It shows you
how badly they want to beat us.”
This dual meet, the two teams’ 23rd such go
round, will be interesting.
“They’re really good where we’re not,” mid
dle distance runner Katie Crabb said, “and
we’re really good where they’re not.”
Crabb is among the Ducks to whom the “really
good” reference applies. The senior set a new
personal record and NCAA provisional time of
4:19.88 in the 1,500-meters at the prestigious Mt.
Turn to Women's, page 12A
Finally all in the
same place at the
same time, the
Oregon women
need a complete
performance
against a
talented
Washington
squad