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Ducks do not make NCAAs ■The No. 19 Oregon men’s golf team is upset by lower ranked teams at the West Regionals this weekend By Peter Hockaday for the Emerald The Oregon men’s golf team was a mere stroke away from making it to the NCAA Champi onships for the third year in a row this weekend at the NCAA West Regionals in Fresno, Calif. Unfortunately, close only counts in horseshoes, not golf. In a shocking turn of events, the 19th-ranked Ducks dropped from 10th to 15th on the second day of the regionals and never fully re covered. The top 10 teams from the regionals advanced to the NCAA Championships later this month. The Ducks finished tied with Oregon State for 13th. Three teams finished tied for the all-important 10th spot. Cali fornia won a trip to the NCAAs from Stanford and Idaho on a three-hole play off. Oregon fin ished a stroke behind those three teams, and two strokes behind ninth-place Pepperdine. “This is one of the biggest sighs of relief,” Golden Bear head coach Steve Desimone said. “We were fortunate.” The Ducks didn’t get the con sistent performances head coach Steve Nosier professed were the key to Oregon’s success at the re gionals. Senior co-captain An drew Tredway shot a final round, two-under par 70 to lead Oregon with a one-under par 215 overall. The Ashland native finished 35th. Oregon scored a 290 the first round, then a 292 the second round and finished with a 284, but that wasn’t enough to propel them into 10th. Behind Tredway, junior T.J. Duncan shot a one-over par 217, while sophomore Aaron Byers and freshman Chris Carnahan Turn to Golf, page 16 Women continued from page 9 the NCAAs [in 1993].” After finishing last at this week end’s conference championships at Hayward Field for the first time ever (title-winner UCLA had 167.5 points, the Ducks had 35.5), next season’s Oregon women’s squad seems in need of such a change of fortune. “It took us eight years to get in this situation; hopefully it doesn’t take us eight years to get out,” Heinonen said. “We’ve gotta find more athletes. It’ll happen, coach es just have to make it happen.” Judging from the weekend’s re sults, it needs be a dramatic swing. The Ducks did all they could against the Pacific-10 Conference’s elite, despite being physically overpowered in almost every as pect of the weekend Pacific-10 Conference Championship meet. Endia Abrante, who wasn’t list ed in the meet’s program because of her right-of-entry status, qualified for the 400-meter final and earned three Oregon points with her sixth place finish (55.43 seconds). But the sophomore was admittedly overmatched against some of the conference’s national-caliber stars. “I caught a couple people, so I’m very pleased,” said Abrante, who ran her two fastest 400s of the sea son. “I ran well. My hard work has paid off. No regrets. No regrets. “Going into it, of course I want ed to win. It just didn’t work out that way. But I’m young, I have a lot I to learn. I’m happy to be in the company of these esteemed com petitors. It really helps me run fast.” Arizona’s Carolyn Jackson won the 400 title in 52.23. And although Oregon’s addi tional highlights were sparse, they weren’t nonexistent. Eri Macdonald, one of the Ducks’ eight freshman involved in championship competition, qualified for the 800 final, where NCAA marks Automatic: Niki Reed: polevault, 13-11/2 Provisional: Katie Crabb: 1,500 meters, 4:19.88 Karis Howell: javelin, 166-4 Maureen Morrison: hammer, 186-6 Holly Speight: polevault, 12-31/2 Mary Etter: discus, 173-11 she finished last in 2:12.51. Freshmen Mary Etter and Charyl Weingarten shone in the throws. Etter made up for a rocky first day in the hammer throw and shot put by slinging the discus a personal best 173 feet, 11 inches — announced as the 16th-best mark among the nation’s colle gians and likely enough for a spot at the NCAA Championships. “I did not know what to ex pect,” Etter said. “I haven’t been throwing well lately. It helps a lot [only having competed in one event Sunday]. You have much more energy going into the event.” Weingarten also came through with a surprisingly strong showing in the javelin: third place, 146-04. Maureen Morrison, Oregon’s all-time leading hammer thrower, finished sixth in her specialty, with a toss of 183-10. Meanwhile Oregon’s big guns — 1,500 runner Katie Crabb, javelin thrower Karis Howell (both ranked top in the confer ence preceding the meet) and pole vaulter Niki Reed — couldn’t overcome conditions or injuries. After leading much of the way, Crabb took the brunt of the wind in the 1,500 and finished third in a re spectable time of 4:21.41. And then, some of the Ducks were just unlucky. Redshirt fresh man Lucretia Larkin, who’d made a habit of PR-ing every race this season since her return from in jury, appeared on her way to an other such mark when a competi tor tripped and rolled into her lane right in front of the finish line. Larkin found herself unexpect edly having to hurdle once again before crossing the line with an unappealing time of 14.59. “It’s really frustrating to see that time up there when I haven’t ran that slow in weeks,” a shaken Larkin said. “But I have to settle for that. I don’t get another chance.” After consoling one young ath lete after the meet, assistant coach Mark Stream waxed positive. “It was tough,” Stream said. “We’re young. We’re learning. And we’ll get better.” LooKing tor a great HangouT this summer? THEN HEAD TO MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR... summer college 2000 MORE CLASSES! MORE POSSIBILITIES! In just one summer you can take care of an entire year’s worth of Science, Humanities/Social Science credits OR complete a major portion of your language requirements at MHCC’s Summer Language Institute. It all transfers toward your degree! Registration begins May 30. • Classes begin June 19. Summers at A/7t. Hood Community College are SIZZLING! ®MT. 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