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GEMINI Do you have issues you need to, deal with? find out in the Classifieds, every day! f Kevin Calame Emerald Sarah Peters has been sharing time with jeanine Norstad as goalie this season. Soccer continued from page 11A Peters says that she’s communi cating with her defense along with roaming her box, which has fos tered her development as a goalie. “This weekend, I was really com municating with [the defense], ” Pe ters said about Sunday’s 3-2 victory over James Madison. Junior sweeper Starr Johnson, Oregon’s defensive leader, liked that communication too. “In that last win,” Johnson said, “ when we were excited, we talked a lot, and that helped.” The Ducks yielded only 11 shots on goal in more than 80 minutes of play against James Madison after conceding two goals on two shots early on. “Our role is to communicate to the team, because we can see every thing, me playing sweeper and her in the back,” Johnson said about her teamwork with the goalies. “Com munication is really big and we did a good job of that against James Madison.” Perhaps the most intriguing part of the goal-saving duo of Peters and Norstad is the way they push each other every day of the week. The two have competed for playing time since last year’s spring drills, ac cording to Peters, and will continue to compete for the rest of the season. “It doesn’t seem to have changed anything,” Peters said about playing the most minutes. “If anything, it just makes each of us work harder in practice every day because we’re both pushing each other: Me to keep the position and her to get the posi tion, but we’re always pushing each other.” • Steffen says competition between the goalies is the best thing for them. “I think she likes having a partner to push her,” Steffen said of Peters. “On one hand she likes that comfort of starting, but at the same time I think she feels better having some body to push her, having somebody to work with her, having somebody to compete with.” Peters and Norstad know all about competition. Norstad played for a top team in Norway before be coming the Ducks’ first internation al recruit; Peters spent time with Washington’s state championship club team in 1997. Peters was also a member of the Woodinville High track team, and holds school records for javelin and shotput. Peters’ coach thinks she has the eagerness of a high school athlete, but the dedication and determina tion of a collegiate athlete. Ask her about next Sunday’s home game against Florida State — the Ducks’ first chance at a Top-25 team on their home turf— and she lights up. “I love playing at home,” Peters said. “I like the atmosphere and the people around the community, es pecially the little girls who always come to the games. It’s an awesome feeling.” Peters even speaks positively about the road trip that the Ducks just returned from, which included losses to soccer powerhouses Duke, Santa Clara and North Carolina. “There were a lot of fans [at North Carolina] and when we were walk ing off the field they said, ‘Great game Oregon,’” Peters said. “You don’t get that in a lot of places. It was awesome to play over at UNC.” There are benefits to having two solid goalkeepers, as Peters found out when Norstad exited stage left the past three games. “I started to get sick,” Peters com mented. “And I said, ‘I can’t get sick now!”’ After Sunday’s Florida State game, Sarah, with Norstad coming back, you can get as sick as you want. Pa you Hav£ a 4?c\^+ +o +U£ n£V4 Foo+sau- c?aM£ yovj won'4 uses? Bring it to the ASUO office, Suite 4 of the EMU to receive free pool playing time from The Break! Vo lorn waN+ a +?c\c£4 -fa +U£ n£Y4 aan£, gu-f- t>Tpis'+ P?ck on£ up? Sign up in the ASUO office.Tickets returned will be given out on a first come, first serve basis. Tickets to the Arizona game are available on 10/02 and to the California game are available on 10/23. Student tickets are paid for by student incidental fee dollars. Don’t let our money go to waste! Ticket swaps will be held for the next three football games. For more information, call 346-3749 or email adfin@gladstone.uoregon.edu Free pool playing time donated by The Break, in the EMU.
