I Golfers break top five on tourney’s final day
■The men move up three
places on the final day in
California, while the women
drop a spot to ninth at their
tournament in Washington
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Oregon men’s golf team, in
college golf terms, is off to a good
start.
The Ducks improved three spots
on the final day to finish fifth at the
Pepperdine Intercollegiate in Ox
nard, Calif., Tuesday.
After a fifth-place finish at the
Northwest Classic to start the sea
son, and a second place finish at
the Husky Invitational two weeks
ago, the Pepperdine Intercollegiate
was a significant milestone for Ore
gon. It would have been the ninth
straight top-five finish for the
Ducks if they hadn’t placed 13th at
the NCAA West Regionals last May.
For the first time this season, the
Ducks failed to take the individual
crown at a tournament. After Chris
Carnahan won the Northwest Clas
sic and John Ellis won the Husky
Invitational, juniors Aaron Byers
and Brandon Harnden tied for 13th
at the Pepperdine Intercollegiate.
Carnahan rallied on the final day
of the Pepperdine to finish 20th. It
was the sopho
more’s third
straight top-20
finish, something
no one else on
the team has ac
complished this
year.
Oregon will have nearly a month
to prepare for its next tournament,
the Prestige at Palm Desert in Cali
fornia. That tournament will be the
Ducks’ last of 2000.
Just as the men were breaking the
top five in California, the women
were dropping a spot at the Edean
Ihlanfeldt Invitational in Redmond,
Washington.
The Ducks stagnated on the sec
ond day at the Sahalee Country
Club, shooting a 316 and allowing
California to move into eighth,
while Oregon dropped to ninth.
Claire Hunter leads the Ducks in
Seattle with a ten-over-par 154 over
two rounds, and stands in 23rd
place.
Southern California and Arizona
State flip-flopped their scores on
the second day of the tournament,
but USC managed to hold on to first
place. The Trojans shot a 292 on
Monday, but a 307 on Tuesday,
while the Sun Devils shot a 311 and
a 294. When the dust settled, USC
led at the end of the day by six
strokes.
The Ducks have one more round
to play before concluding the
Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational. They
start the final round of 18 holes to
day at 10 a.m.
Mariners crush New York and contemplate the World Series
By Ronald Blum
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Freddy Garcia
and Seattle’s bullpen put the New
York Yankees right back in their
postseason funk.
Garcia pitched 6 2/3 innings in a
six-hitter, and Alex Rodriguez and
Rickey Henderson supplied the of
fense, leading the Mariners over
New York 2-0 Tuesday night in the
opener of the AL championship
series.
Garcia, one of the young pitch
ers obtained two years ago from
Houston in the Randy Johnson
trade, allowed just three hits,
struck out eight and handled the
two-time World Series champions
like an old pro.
The 24-year-old right-hander let
runners reach third base in the
third and fifth innings and escaped
a two-on, no-outs jam in the sixth.
With the crowd on its feet,
Mariners manager Lou Piniella
stayed with Garcia, who struck out
Paul O’Neill and Bernie Williams,
then retired David Justice on a fly
out Mike Cameron caught one step
in front of the center-field fence.
Jose Paniagua, Arthur Rhodes
and Kazuhiro Sasaki combined for
three-hit relief, with Sasaki getting
three outs for his third save of the
playoffs.
With the crowd again on its feet,
Williams singled leading off the
ninth as Sasaki repeatedly stepped
off. Justice struck out, and Tino
Martinez singled up the middle to
bring up Jorge Posada, who home
red off Sasaki twice in three at-bats
in the regular season.
But Sasaki got Posada to fly out
to right, and Luis Sojo flied out to
center to end it.
Seattle pitchers struck out 13, in
cluding Derek Jeter three times. The
Mariners bullpen has pitched 14
scoreless innings in the postseason.
New York, which hit just .244
and scored only 19 runs in its 3-2
win over Oakland in the division
series, was 0-for-8 with runners in
scoring position. Sojo and Chuck
Knoblauch had two hits each.
After taking a 6-0 lead over the
Athletics in the first inning of Game
5, the Yankees have scored one run
in their last 17 innings, looking like
the tired, old team that lost 15 of its
last 18 games during the regular
season.
While the Yankees are struggling,
the Mariners are hot, spurting with
a mixture of youth and experience
as they try to get to the World Series
for the first time.
Despite trading Ken Griffey Jr. be
fore spring training, they qualified
for the playoffs as the wild card,
then swept Chicago, the team with
the AL’s best record, 3-0 in the first
round.
Seattle had just five hits off Den
ny Neagle, Jeff Nelson, Randy
Choate and Jason Grimsley, but
three of those hits led to runs.
Neagle, bypassed in the first
round after ending his regular sea
son with three straight subpar
starts, pitched for the first time
since Sept. 27, and was wild but
pretty effective.
He started six of 32 batters with
3-0 counts but walked just three
and gave up three hits.
Neagle kept the game scoreless
until the fifth, when Mark
McLemore doubled with two outs
and Henderson, cast off by the
crosstown Mets this spring,
slapped a single in the hole be
tween first and second and through
into right.
Oakland showed during the first
round that O’Neill’s arm isn’t what
it was. O’Neill stutter-stepped as he
picked up the ball, and McLemore
scored easily ahead of O’Neill’s
bouncing throw.
Rodriguez then led off the sixth
with a smash that hit high off the
screen attached to the left-field foul
pole, a massive drive that would
have landed in the upper deck if
unimpeded.
Notes: Pregame introductions
were canceled because it was 48
degrees and Yankees owner George
Steinbrenner didn’t want his play
ers standing out in the cold.... The
teams combined for 22 strikeouts,
an ALCS record. ... Jeter ranged
from shortstop to make a great over
the-head, inning-ending catch on
David Bell’s looper to left in the sec
ond. ... O’Neill was hit in the right
shoulder by a foul ball hit by Jeter
while standing behind the plate
waiting to bat in the fourth. ... Gle
nallen Hill pinch hit for O’Neill in
the eighth with a runner on first,
and Rhodes struck him out. ... Ro
driguez’s homer was his second in
postseason play.
Celtics star returning to work after stabbing incident
By Howard Ulman
The Associated Press
WALTHAM, Mass.—Paul Pierce
bounced the ball, bent his knees,
raised his right arm and shot his free
throw. Good.
He moved to the right comer, took
two steps toward the baseline and
shot a 15-footer. Good.
* Then he dribbled to his left,
stopped and flicked his hand as he
sent another jumper toward the
hoop. Good.
The prognosis for Pierce’s return
to playing soon for the Boston
Celtics is very good, considering
how, just two weeks ago, he was re
covering from surgery after being
stabbed several times in a Boston
nightclub.
“The wounds that hit me could
have easily been one inch left or one
inch to the right and I probably
wouldn’t be here today,” he said
Tuesday, wearing a hat with the
words “Only The Strong Survive”
on the front.
One wound was seven inches
deep, and Pierce, stabbed in the
chest, had lung damage and under
went surgery the day of the stabbing
Sept. 25.
A week later, the Celtics began
training camp without him. But
since then, he’s worked out on a
treadmill, shot baskets and partici
pated in light workouts. He would
n’t rule out playing in Boston’s sea
son opener Nov. 1 at home against
Detroit.
Pierce, who turns 23 Monday, av
eraged 19.5 points and was second
in the NBA in steals last season, his
second in the league.
“He’s very close to coming back,”
Celtics coach Rick Pitino said. “He
looks great, feels great. He’s a little
winded but everything else, I think,
is almost normal.”
He said he hadn’t known the seri
ousness of his condition until he
had undergone surgery and already
was getting better.
“I’m just trying to put it behind
me and focus on basketball,” he
added. “That’s what I came to
Boston to do and that’s what I want
to do.”
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