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Dion out with knee injury
■ Lindsey Dion is the Oregon
women’s basketball team’s
second injured teammate
within a month
Scott Pesznecker
Oregon Daily Emerald
Another injured player, a few
more steps back for the Oregon
women’s basketball team.
Guard/forward Lindsey Dion
tore the lateral maniscus cartilage
in her right knee while performing
a running drill at Autzen Stadium
last Thursday. Surgery was sched
uled for early today and rehabilita
tion will take about six weeks, team
officials said.
Although the senior should be
ready to play at the start of the Pa
cific-10 Conference season, the
Ducks had a hard time keeping her
healthy. Dion missed several games
with concussions and knee in
juries. Oregon has close to a .500
record when Dion is not in the line
up.
Dion, labeled by head coach Jody
Runge as the team’s emotional
leader, earned All-Pac-10 honors
last season after averaging 7.4
points and 3.4 rebounds per game.
The temporary loss of Dion com
pounds the gap left open by the in
jured Shaquala Williams, who tore
her anterior cruciate ligament in
September during a pickup game
and will miss the entire season.
Williams will be rehabilitating be
tween five and eight months.
Preseason Pac-10 Rankings
Despite the loss of Williams, the
recently-released Pac-10 Women’s
Basketball Coaches Poll picks Ore
gon to finish second in the confer
ence.
The Ducks would have likely
been the first choice with Williams
in the lineup, as they would have
returned four of five starters from
last season’s Pac-10 title squad.
However, the loss of Williams
leaves the starting point guard du
ties to sophomore Kourtney
Shreve, who has never started.
Shreve’s backup is junior Jamie
Craighead, who started at forward
last season when Dion was injured.
Pac-10 coaches picked Stanford
to win the Pac-10 title. The Cardi
nal collected nine first-place votes
to Oregon’s one.
Stanford returns four starters
from last season, when its 13-5 Pac
10 record tied itself with Arizona
for second place in the conference
and advanced to the second round
of the NCAA West Regional — its
13th-straight NCAA Tournament
appearance.
Southern California was ranked
third, followed closely by Arizona
in fourth and Arizona State fifth.
Washington and UCLA were tied
for-sixth. Oregon State is picked
eighth, followed by No. 9 California
and, as usual, Washington State is
in the cellar.
Golf team tallies small victory
■The Ducks finish eighth at
their first full tournament,
but score their best round of
the season on the final day
By Peter Hockaday
Oregon Daily Emerald
Battling the weather, a tough
field and their own plummeting
scores, the Oregon women’s golf
team finally scored a small victory
Wednesday in the final round of
the Edean Ih
lanfeldt Invita
tional.
The Ducks shot
their best single
round of the
young season, a
16-over-par 304,
to re-take eighth
place, which they had lost on the
second day of the tournament. All
but one team member equaled or
bettered her best single-round score
on Wednesday.
“This was our best round of the
year by far,” said Ducks head coach
Shannon Rouillard. “We played
with a lot of heart today.”
Oregon faced a tough field at the
tournament in Redmond, Wash.,
for the third time in three tourna
ments this year. Six of the seven
This was our best
round of the year by far.
We played with a lot of
heart today.
Shannon Rouillard
Ducks head coach yy
teams that finished ahead of the
Ducks at the Edean Ihlanfeldt were
ranked in the top-20. Four of those
teams are in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence, while Oregon finished in
front of three other Pac-10 teams.
The Ducks almost overtook the
tournament’s host, Washington, on
the final day, which would have
moved Oregon up to seventh. The
Huskies had a 12-stroke edge over
the Ducks, but Oregon’s surge on
the final day put them two strokes
behind Washington when the tour
nament ended.
Senior Claire Hunter had the
Ducks’ best overall score, a 231 that
was good enough for 19th place.
Freshman standout Katharina
Schallenberg also had a solid tour
nament, and finished in a tie-for
24th overall.
Most notable, however, was the
final round of senior Jerilyn White.
White, the only regular starter from
the 1999-00 team to return this sea
son, shot her first sub-75 round of
the year, a 73 at the Sahalee Coun
try Club.
No. 3 Southern California won
the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational by
12 strokes over No. 5 Arizona State.
The Cardinal shot an impressive fi
nal round of 299, but the Trojans
held on to first with a final-round
297.
Oregon’s next tournament will be
in a week-and-a-half, at the Stan
ford-Pepsi Intercollegiate October
20-22.
Bullpen woes return in M’s loss
By Howard Fendrich
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Seattle might
very well go sleepless over this
loss.
The Mariners had the New York
Yankees right where they wanted
them before some shoddy defense
and suddenly suspect relief pitch
ing conspired to toss away Game 2
of the American League champi
onship series.
Leading 1-0 going into the bot
tom of the eighth inning Wednes
day, Seattle was six outs away
from heading home to Safeco Field
needing two victories for its first
World Series berth.
And then it all fell apart.
Relievers Arthur Rhodes and
Jose Mesa combined to give up
seven runs on eight hits in the
eighth, allowing the Yankees to
win 7-1 and tie series 1-1.
“It’s a shame,” Mariners manag
er Lou Piniella said, “because we
had seven good innings of base
ball, and in the eighth they explod
ed on us.”
It was the kind of momentum
swing that changes the whole com
plexion of a series.
“Down 2-0 going into Seattle
would have been devastating,”
said Yankees designated hitter
Chuck Knoblauch, who chipped in
with an RBI single.
“And right now we’re riding a
high.”
The eighth inning was a stun
ning pratfall for a relief corps that
had been masterful in the playoffs.
Entering that inning, Seattle’s
bullpen had worked 15 scoreless
postseason innings, stranding all
10 of the runners it had inherited
and converting all three of its save
chances.
But a solid start Wednesday by
John Halama was wasted. He gave
up five hits in six shutout innings
and did not allow a runner to get
past second base. Jose Paniagua
came on for a scoreless seventh in
ning, before Piniella turned the 1
0 lead over to Rhodes.
The left-hander gave up three
runs on four hits while getting just
one out, before Mesa — who lost
the closer’s job to Japanese import
Kazuhiro Sasaki in spring training
— allowed four runs on four hits.
“The bullpen doesn’t go in there
with the intention of blowing the
game — they had 15 scoreless in
nings,” said Halama, who made
his first postseason start.
“It’s bound to happen sooner or
later.”
Perhaps it shouldn’t be too sur
prising the collapse finally came.
Mesa has had his postseason
problems in the past, while
Rhodes has not been superb
against«the Yankees.
While with the Cleveland Indi
ans, Mesa blew save opportunities
in Games 3 and 4 of the 1997
ALCS against Baltimore. Then, in
that year’s World Series, he blew a
ninth-inning lead in Game 7,
which Florida went on to win in
11 innings.
Rhodes had a 7.71 ERA in four
appearances against the Yankees
during the regular season, and had
a 3-5 career record against them
before Wednesday.
With Rhodes on in relief to start
the eighth, David Justice led off
with a double. Bernie Williams fol
lowed with an RBI single on an
eight-pitch at-bat to tie it at 1.
Tino Martinez followed with a
liner that went off the glove of
charging left fielder A1 Martin.
The next batter, Jorge Posada, hit
a shot that went off second base
man Mark McLemore’s glove and
dribbled slowly into short right
field, allowing another runner to
score.
After Paul O’Neill’s sacrifice fly
drove in another run, Rhodes gave
way to Mesa, who was no more ef
fective.
When it was all over, the Yan
kees had racked up seven runs on
eight hits — two more hits than
they had all game before the big in
ning.