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Scoreboard Mowe alternate on Jones Cup team Oregon center Jenny Mowe is one of five alternates select ed for the 12-member USA Jones Cup team, which com petes in Taiwan on July 16-20 and then again in Hawaii on September3. Forty one of the nation’s top collegiate players tried out for the squad last week in Col orado Springs, Co. Mowe, who averaged more than two blocks per game last season, was also an alternate on the 1999 World University team and a member of the 1997 USA Junior World Cham pionship team. The Ducks’ starting point guard Shaquala Williams also participated in last week’s tri als. Second walkway closed after accident CONCORD, N.C.(AP) —State engineers Monday ordered a second walkway at Lowe’s Mo tor Speedway closed until they can learn why the track’s oth er pedestrian bridge col lapsed, injuring 107 people. Investigators believe corro sion caused the first walkway to fall onto U.S. Highway 29 Saturday night. The walkways, 500 yards apart, are no more than 5 years old. The second bridge has a rust spot — described as no bigger than a nickel and the only vi sual sign of possible trouble — but that was enough to lead to its indefinite closure. With the second walkway out of commission for Speed Week, which begins Wednes day with qualifying for Satur day’s Coca-Cola 600, fans will have to use a crosswalk to nav igate U.S. 29. “We will not allow the re opening of this bridge until we know what went wrong, and the track agreed to close it,” said Benton Payne, division engineer for the state Depart ment of Transportation. “We will need to see a report on why the bridge collapsed and make sure the other bridge doesn’t have the same prob lems before it can open.” Beating the bridge SEATTLE (AP) — The 7,900 participants in the annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge run raised more than $700,000 for charity, organiz ers said. The eight kilometer race is billed as the sixth-largest run ning competition in the coun try. It challenges runners to beat the raising of University Bridge in north Seattle, and money raised goes to the West ern Washington Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. The race has raised a total of $3.5 million over the last 18 years. NBA Playoffs: New York vs. Indiana 5:30 p.m.,TNT Sports Tuesday May 23,2000 Volume 101, Issue 158 Effierald Ducks look forward, reflect back ■The men’s golf team fell just short of the NCAA Championships, although that doesn’t define its season By Peter Hockaday for the Emerald The Oregon men’s golf team was expecting to * be booking a flight to Alabama right now. The Ducks were supposed to be going to the NCAA Championships for the third straight year, and the program was supposed to gain that * last pinnacle that would vault it into the catego ry of the nation’s best golf teams. < Instead, the No. 19 Ducks were stunned by five lower-ranked teams at the NCAA West Regionals in Fresno, Calif., last weekend and missed a trip to the C h a m p i - \ onships by one stroke. \ But a season is not defined by l one tournament. Even though l they are disappointed, the I Ducks are not jumping off buildings because of what hap pened in Fresno. S Instead, two days after it all ended, the Ducks are accentuat- | ing the positives of their season. “We had numerous successes this year,” Oregon head coach Steve Nosier said, “almost too numerous to mention.” For one, the Ducks’ results this year are impressive. They placed better than fifth nine times in 13 tournaments. They finished worse than 10th only twice — and just got unlucky that one of those times was when it really counted. The Ducks didn’t win a tour nament this year, but had two second, two third and three fourth place finishes. Oregon finished fourth at the Pacific-10 Conference Champi onships but finished behind six Pac-10 teams at the regionals. The Ducks garnered a No. 19 ranking towards the end of the season and felt they could be higher. Turn to Golf, page 12 top) Senior co-captain Andrew Tredway shot the Ducks’ lowest round at the West Regionals last week nd but is graduating. Freshman Chris Carnahan (bottom) is Oregon’s best hope for the future. We had numerous successes this year— almost too numerous to mention. Steve Nosier head coach 'Sheed, Blazers keep cool and crush L.A. ■ Portland’s 20-0 third quarter run dooms Los Angeles’ hopes of heading to the Northwest with a 2-0 advantage ii They had us back on our heels. Phil Jackson Lakers’ head coach By Bob Baum The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — He is a 6 foot-11 portrait of grace and skill at his best; hot-tempered and self-destructive at his worst. Rasheed Wallace was at his best Monday night, and in an incredibly dominant third quarter, so were the Portland Trail Blazers. Wallace, on his best behavior after being ejected from Game 1 for getting two technical fouls, had playoff career highs of 29 points and 12 rebounds as the Blazers stunned Los Angeles 106-77, the Lakers’ most lop sided loss of the season. “We just kind of took it to them,” Portland’s Scottie Pip pen said. Wallace made three 3-point ers in a 20-0 third-quarter out burst a s Port land evened the best-of-seven Western Conference finals 1-1. The series doesn’t resume until Friday in Portland. “No one said it was going to be easy,” Shaquille O’Neal said. “Now we’ve got our hands full.” The way the Blazers played the third quarter there was no reason for the “Hack-a-Shaq” strategy that sent O’Neal to the line a playoff-record 25 times in the fourth quarter of Game 1. O’Neal was 5-for-17 from the line, but it was academic. O’Neal, averaging 30.8 points in the playoffs, had 23 points and 12 rebounds, but 14 of his points came in the fourth quar ter when the Lakers never got closer than 18. “When you’re the road team coming in, you’re trying to shift the homecourt advantage back,” Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said. “That was our goal, we accomplished it.” Kobe Bryant was the only other Los Angeles player in double figures with 12 points, but was only 2-for-9 from the field. The Lakers lost, at home for the first time in eight playoff games and the second time in 26 games since losing to the Blazers on Jan. 22. Los Angeles is 43-6 at home. Wallace, who drew his sec ond technical in Game 1 for Turn to Blazers, page 9 Game Leaders Scoring Blazers: Wallace 29 Smith 24 Lakers: O’Neal 23 Bryant 12 Boards Mazers: Wallace 12 Pippen 11 lakers: O’Neal 11
