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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