Scoreboard
Oregon State 3, Oregon 1
Game 2
Oregon
AB R H RBI BB
Gustafson, 2B
3 0 0 0 0
Laux, SS
3 0 0 0 1
Coe, C
2 1 112
Robinson, CF
4 0 0 0 0
Welch,RF
2 0 10 1
Custer, 1B
4 0 10 1
Vidlund, P
3 0 10 0
Hutchinson, LF
2 0 0 0 0
Ray, 3B
2 0 2 0 1
Totals
25 1 6 15
IP H ER R BB SO
Vidlund
6 7 2
3 4 1
Oregon State
AB R H RBI BB
Feldt, SS
3 0 0 0 1
Guthrie, 2B
3 1 10 0
Beyster, DP, P
2 1 2 11
King, PR
0 0 0 0 0
Jodoin, 1B
3 0 10 0
Prochaska, C
2 0 0 1 1
Plant, 3B
3 0 0 0 0
Maxey, LF
3 1 2 0 0
Chariton, CF
2 0 10 0
Rutschman, RF
2 0 0 0 1
Draper, P
0 0 0 0 0
Totals
23 3 7 2 4
IP H ER R BB SO
Draper
3.1 2 0 0 4 3
Beyster
3.2 4 1 112
Player of the Day
Not only did Oregon
State’s Tar rah Beyster
hit her 50th career
home run, but she also
pitched 10 strong
innings through two
games Tuesday, im
proving her record to
24-9 this season.
The senior picked up
both wins, by holding
the Ducks to two runs
and a scant seven hits.
She also recorded five
strikeouts.
Best Bet
NBA Playoffs,
Seattle vs. Utah
6 p.m., TNT
Wednesday
May 3,2000
Volume 101, Issue 144
Emerald
Ducks continue slide in Corvallis
_ . Kevin Calame Emerald
Outfielder Amber Hutchinson (11), Kelly Planche (second from right) and Danielle Haag (right) hope to help reverse the Ducks’ fortunes down the stretch of the season.
■ Oregon loses two on the road
and drops its Pacific-10
Conference record to 5-10 with
only five conference games left
By Matt O'Neill
Oregon Daily Emerald
The quick sand has just thickened
for the No. 17 Oregon softball team.
With only five conference games
left, the Ducks find themselves in the
midst of a four-game losing streak.
The Ducks (33-22 overall, 5-10 Pa
cific-10 Conference) dropped both
games of a doubleheader Tuesday to
No. 14 Oregon State (36-14-1,6-8), 3
1 in the first game and 2-1 in the sec
and.
Oregon managed only nine hits all
day as it continued to be mired in a
hitting slump. During last weekend’s
homestand, the Ducks only managed
eight hits in three games.
“It’s just a matter of not producing
when we need to,” head coach Rick
Gamez said in a released statement.
“We are not going to get many wins
when our lineup can’t produce when
we need them to. We left 17 runners
on base today [total j and that’s not go
ing to beat anybody, let alone Oregon
State.”
In game two, Oregon State used
three one-run innings to get the best
of the Ducks. In the first inning, the
Beavers put runners on second and
third with one out. Brynnen Guthrie
scored on a Shelly Prochaska ground
out, and the Beavers took a 1-0 lead.
In the third, the Beavers again got
to starter Andrea Vidlund (16-6) for a
run. Tarrah Beyster belted her 50th
home run of her career to push the
lead to 2-0. Then in the fourth inning,
Oregon State got its final run via an
error.
Cara Maxey and Michelle Chariton
both singled to start the rally with
two outs. Maxey advanced to third on
an error by Alyssa Laux and then
scored on an error by Lindsey Welch
one batter later.
Turn to Softball, page 13
It's just
a matter of
not produc
ing when
we need to.
Rick Gamez
head coach
_n
WNBA president to speak at Law School
Val Ackerman
will discuss the
challenges of
operating the
fourth-year
league at the
fifth-annual
Women in
Sports Business
Symposium
By Mirjam Swanson
Oregon Daily Emerald
Women’s National Basketball
Association President Val Ack
erman will discuss the chal
lenges of operating a women’s
professional sports league in
her keynote address at the
Women in Sports Business
Symposium, beginning tonight
at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of
the William W. Knight Law
Center.
The annual symposium,
which is in its fifth year, is or
ganized by graduate students
from the James H. Warsaw
Sports Marketing Center. For
the past several years organiz
ers have tried to secure an ap
pearance by Ackerman at the
symposium, program director
Rick Burton said.
“Prior to this year the WNBA
didn’t have a team in Portland,”
Burton said. “So she may see
this as an opportunity to spread
some goodwill in one of the
states where the WNBA has a
team. It’s an honor to finally fit
it into her schedule.”
Ackerman is the biggest
name ever, in terms of ongoing
presence in the sports world, to
speak at the symposium. She
works as the commissioner of
the four-year-old league. She
oversees 12 teams, including
the Portland Fire, one of four
expansion teams added to the
league this season.
In addition to her WNBA du
ties, the Virginia alumnus cur
rently serves on the USA Bas
ketball Executive Committee
and was a member of the Board
of Trustees that created the
gold-medal winning 1995-96
USA Basketball Women’s Na
tional Team Program.
Other panelists that will
speak at this year’s two-day
symposium include representa
tives from companies like Nike,
U.S. Soccer, the Portland Fire
and the Leo Burnett advertising
agency.
“One of the reasons we do
this,” Burton said, “is to make
sure the women who are a part
of our program realize that
women play a huge role in the
future management and suc
cess of sports in America.”
On Tap
What: Women in
Sports Business
Symposium
Who: Val Acker
man, WNBA Presi
dent
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Auditori
um of the William
W. Knight Law Cen
ter