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top conference in the country.”
All eight teams in the Pac-10
made it to the regional tourna
ment, with five of the eight as No.
1 seeds. Four will host. Washing
ton, UCLA, Arizona and Arizona
State all host a regional site, while
Stanford, the other No. 1 seed,
travels to Michigan.
“They look at the regional sites
and who can host and who can’t,”
Gamez said. “At this time I don’t
think that Stanford is in a position
to host. So, they go to another
somewhere else and be the No. 1
seed.”
The surprising development in
the selection process was that No.
9 California, a team tied with the
Ducks for seventh in the Pac-10,
got a three-seed in Region No. 6
and stays on the West coast to face
Florida at Fresno State.
“There’s some awfully tough
teams in some of the regions,”
Gamez said. “Cal goes in as No. 3
and we go in as a No. 5, but I think
our strength of schedule holds a
lot of water.”
Washington remains in Seattle
to face Army in its first game. Oth
er teams playing there are Missis
sippi State, which takes on Ten
nessee- Chattanooga, and Utah,
which faces Western Illinois.
Arizona and Arizona State will
both remain in the Valley of the
Sun as they both host regions. The
Wildcats face Middle Tennessee
State and the Sun Devils take on
Coastal Carolina.
Defending national champion
UCLA will also be home when it
faces Cansius in its first game.
Oregon is the only team from
the West Coast to be in region No.
7. Other teams hosting are
Louisiana State facing Northwest
ern State, and Louisiana-Lafayette
taking on Hofstra.
“The travel will affect us a lit
tle,” Gamez said. “But right now
the kids are more focused on play
ing than they are on traveling.”
The Ducks came into the selec
tion show dropping their last
three games to Washington and
UCLA. In the final road-trip of the
regular season, Oregon lost to the
Huskies, 9-0 on Friday and
dropped both ends of a twin bill
in Los Angeles, 5-2 and 12-4.
Washington’s Jennifer Spediac
ci and Bridget Wilcox combined
to hold the Ducks to two hits in a
game shortened to only five in
nings by the eight-run mercy rule.
The big inning for the Huskies
came in the fourth. Already up 4
0, the first three batters reached
with none out. Jenny Topping
bounced back to the pitcher but
Andrea Gustafson dropped the
ball to allow two runners to score.
Jamie Clark cracked a double to
left field, driving in two more
runs. Shannon Walsh added a
base hit to run the score to 9-0.
Junior first baseman Triawn
Custer was hit in the face fielding
a ground ball in warmups before
the UCLA double header. She was
unable to play thereafter.
Christi Shelton replaced Custer
at first, but the Ducks couldn’t get
anything going on the day. Both
Amanda Freed and Courtney Dale
picked up wins on the day.
In the first game, Holly Ray pro
vided the only scoring for the
Ducks when she belted her sev
enth home run of the season.
In the second game, the Bruins
broke a 3-3 tie in the third with
four runs to coast to an 8-3 win.
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I will
• be inspired by everything
Ido
• remind myself that tall
trees and green grass are
worth all the rain
• challenge myself and others
to consider each side of an
issue
• remember that being part
of a six person class at the
UO is a once-in-a-lifetime
experience
• not procrastinate...
starting tomorrow
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challenge my friends
to drink responsibly...
or not at all.
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