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Volume 101, Issue 140
Emerald
Pac-1 Os marred by Southern
Cal’s foul play
■Arizona takes the team title at the women’s Pac-10
Golf Championships, but Candie Kung’s individual title
comes from a teammate’s mistake
by Peter Hockaday
for the Emerald
The women’s Pacific-10
Conference Golf Champi
onships turned sour long after
the teams had accepted their
trophies at the Eugene Country
Club Wednesday night.
After all the scorecards had
been turned in, it was discov
ered that Southern California
freshman Mikaela Parmlid —
who won the tournament on a
one-hole playoff over USC
teammate Candie Kung — had
signed a scorecard with a score
that read 73 instead of 74. Parm
lid’s final round score was dis
qualified, causing USC to drop
from second to sixth place in the
final standings. Kung was
crowned the champion of the
tournament.
“This is supposed to be hers,”
Kung said of the individual title.
No. 1-ranked Arizona won its
third Pac-10 team title in four
years, beating out No. 7 Stanford
by 18 strokes. No. 26 Oregon fin
ished a disappointing seventh,
with only junior Jerilyn White
(223, ninth overall) finishing in
the top 10. However, head coach
Renee Baumgartner is confident
that her team can perform well
in the upcoming west regionals.
“We’re a very experienced
team,” Baumgartner said. “Re
gionals are going to be a differ
ent story; there’s a lot of teams
that have never been there be
fore.”
But Baumgartner and the Pac
10 officials who made the tour
nament run smoothly until the
final day are
still wonder
ing what hap
pened to
USC’s Parm
lid.
In Pac-10
golf, there are
no official scorers, so each mem
ber of Parmlid’s three-person
playing group was keeping
score for another member. Al
legedly, UCLA’s Amanda
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Kevin Calame Emerald
Oregon’s Anika Heuser lines up a putt at the 10th hole.
Pac-10 Champi
onships results
1. Arizona (883)
2. Stanford (901)
3. UCLA (903)
7. Oregon (912)
Individual results
1. Candie Kung, USC(218)
2. Jenna Daniels, Arizona
(219)
3. Cristina Baena, Arizona
(220)
4. Amanda Moltke-Leth,
UCLA (221)
Jill Gomric, Arizona (221)
9. Jerilyn White (223)
11. Anika Heuser (225)
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Maureen Morrison is Oregon’s all-time leading hammer thrower, but she said she knows she can improve.
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Maureen Morrison pauses
mid-thought, temporarily halt
ing the interview in reaction to
what her coach just mouthed
as she walked past.
“Oh yeah?” Mo says.
“Yeeeaaahhh!”
And then, in explanation:
“The hammer time on Satur
day changed.”
Indeed, the women’s ham
mer throw, originally slated to
start at 10:30 a.m. at Saturday’s
Oregon Invitational, was
rescheduled to begin instead at
3:30 p.m. in an effort to encour
age more people to watch. Be
cause this event is going to be
an event.
Mo is ranked fifth in Satur
day’s field behind Canada’s
Caroline Wittrin and Utah
State’s Gloria Butler, who are
ranked first and second, re
spectively.
Naturally, the best female
hammer thrower in Oregon
history is excited. She’ll be up
against good competition. She
won’t have to get out of bed so
early. And she’ll be able to do
her thing in front of a crowd,
taking advantage of the energy
that it provides.
Mo’s ready to kick ass.
It’s an ideal opportunity for
Mo to continue to close on a
slot at the NCAA Champi
onships, and on that vaunted
All-American status. And, yes,
in the process, on yet another
personal and program record
too.
Twice this season Mo has re
set the school hammer throw
record. Heidi Fisk, a recent
graduate, held the old record of
183-feet, 6-inches. But Mo un
did her friend’s mark for the
first time at the Hayward Re
lays on April 8 with a mighty
fling of 185-9.
Then the 21-year-old red
shirt junior did it again last
, weekend, this time throwing
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186-06 and helping the Ducks
win their dual against Wash
ington.
“I don’t really think about, ‘If
I throw this, I’m going to shat
ter the record,’” Mo said. “It’s
more personal goals: becoming
an All-American, working
hard, being disciplined, and if
I shatter records in the process
... then hey. ”
Hey, why not? Because until
her sophomore year at Oregon,
Maureen Morrison didn’t even
consciously
intend to
throw the
hammer.
Though
that doesn’t
mean it was
n’t meant to happen.
After all, Mo began throwing
— discus and shot put, anyway
— early.
“In high school my sister
threw,” Mo says. “One day I
wanted to go home, but she
had the car. So I was stuck. She
said we could leave if I could
throw farther than she did. So I
picked it up and threw it far
ther.
“I was like, ‘We gotta go
now.’”
When high school began in
Manhattan Beach, Calif., Mo’s
sports were soccer first, then
basketball and volleyball. The
nation’s current No. 24 ham
mer thrower didn’t even like
track.
But eventually it caught on.
And Mo, then a resident of
Seattle, gained a reputation for
her prowess with the discus,
finishing second in the state of
Washington her senior season.
“Discus is what allured
[throws coach] Sally [Harmon]
to start recruiting me,” Mo
says. “Discus carried me here.”
She arrived in 1996 a talent
ed, young discus thrower hin
dered by ankle injuries. Pains
that didn’t and wouldn’t go
away, keeping her from fulfill
ing her full potential in the dis
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