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
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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.”
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