Ducks will use experience to get to NCAAs
■ Four Oregon golfers try to extend their careers at the
NCAA West Regionals in Tempe; team bids farewell to coach
By Peter Hockaday
for the Emerald
The Oregon women’s golf team
has three days to make an up-and
down season finish on an upward
swing.
The Ducks play in the NCAA
West Regionals in Tempe, Ariz.,
this week. It’s a tournament that
holds all the importance in the
world for Oregon’s four seniors.
The golfers need to finish in the
top 11 of the 24-team field in order
to advance to the NCAA Champi
onships at Sunriver May 24-27.
Every one of those 24 teams, like the
No. 26 Ducks, is ranked in the top
50 in the nation.
The Ducks will have 54 holes of
golf today through Saturday to re
verse history. In the 14-year “mod
em era” of Oregon women’s golf—
the team was first recognized as a
women’s sport in 1986—the Ducks
have made five appearances at the
NCAA Championships. Four of
those five times, they finished fifth
or better at the Pacific-10 Confer
ence Championships, which al
ways features some of the top teams
in the country. This year they fin
ished seventh at the Pac-lOs.
Oregon will rely on the steady
play of their seniors and talented
junior Jerilyn White in Tempe. The
four seniors — co-captains Pam
Sowden and Kylie Wilson, Anika
Heuser and Angie Rizzo — have
played together all year. All of the
seniors have played in the NCAA
Championships except Rizzo.
They will try to give head coach
Renee Baumgartner, in her last year
as coach before taking over assistant
athletic director
duties, a final
trip to the
NCAAs.
However,
with all that ex
perience, the
team will rely
on its youngest member to step up
at the regionals. White, the only un
derclassman who regularly starts
for the Ducks, is the team’s stroke
average leader and the only Duck
ranked in the nation’s top 100
golfers at No. 80. White is also the
only Duck besides Rizzo without
NCAA Championship experience.
Oregon will need to perform well
on a course that has already
stymied them once this year. The
Karsten Golf Course was the site of
the Ping/Arizona State Invitational
in early April, a tournament in
which the Ducks finished 13th of
15 teams. Oregon had won two
tournaments in a row before head
ing to Arizona for the Ping.
The Ducks will not have that
kind of momentum going into the
regionals. They placed seventh at
the Pac-10 Championships two
weeks ago, and the Ping/ASU Invi
tational was a mere week before
that.
However, it seems like the Ducks
are following mystical patterns in
their season so far, where momen
tum means nothing and converse
ly, losing means nothing. Since Oc
tober, the team has finished first,
16th, second, 14th, first, first, 13th,
and seventh — in that order. That
would seem to mean a return to
winning form is inevitable, but the
Ducks are running out of chances.
No. 1 Arizona, one of seven top
10 teams at the regionals, will be
heavily favored to win despite the
tough competition. Senior all Pac
10 and top-ranked Jenna Daniels
will be shooting for her seventh top
three finish this week.
The West Regionals tee off today
in Tempe. The golfers play 18 holes
each day through Saturday.
Bonzi finally finds way to breakthrough in Game 2
By Landon Hall
Associated Press
PORTLAND — One of the subtle
benefits of Portland’s blowout vic
tory over the Utah Jazz in Game 2
was the emergence of Bonzi Wells
from his near-invisibility on the
Trail Blazers’ bench.
Wells had seemed as anony
mous as someone in a virtual Wit
ness Protection Program during the
playoffs, although his only crimes
were bad defense and foul trouble.
Before he scored 17 points in
Tuesday night’s 103-85 win, Wells
had played in just three of Port
land’s five postseason games. His
stat line: Twelve minutes, zero
points, five fouls and four
turnovers.
That all changed in Game 2, and
even though he scored 15 points in
the outcome was secure, it gave the
23-year-old shooting guard a huge
lift in spirits.
“It was good for us to see, too, be
cause we know how it is when you
get in a funk, and it’s hard do get
out of,” teammate Brian Grant said
at practice Wednesday, before the
the
fourth
quarter,
when
Blazers were scheduled to fly to
Salt Lake City for Thursday’s Game
3.
Wells made seven of his nine
shots, many of them layups and
quick darts to the basket like the
ones he made during his impres
sive second NBA season.
Jermaine O’Neal, a $5 million
backup center who had not played
at all in the playoffs, also got off the
bench, scoring two points.
It has been a tough week for
Wells. As he was struggling to re
gain his confidence, assistant
coach Bill Musselman died sud
denly last Friday morning. Wells
was close to Musselman and took
his death particularly hard.
Wells hasn’t spoken publicly
about the coach, and he’s found it
difficult to talk at all.
“I’m cool with interviews,” he
said after Game 2, but “I’ve got to
wait a few more days. Got a lot of
stuff on my mind.”
Wells, a high-scoring star at Ball
State University, was largely un
known when he was drafted by the
Detroit Pistons with the 11th over
all pick in 1998, then traded to the
Blazers.
He barely got off the bench dur
ing his rookie season as the backup
to Isaiah Rider. Wells played in
just seven games, scoring a total of
31 points. He was left off Port
land’s playoff roster.
Now that he’s back in the fold,
the Blazers feel better about their
chances.
“We’re going to need him
throughout the playoffs,” Grant
said. “We’ve got to continue to
play as hard as we can, man, so
guys can get minutes, because
we’re definitely going to have to
start stretching that roster be
cause foul trouble’s going to
come up.”
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