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Golfers finish best tournament of season ■The women’s golf team finishes sixth at the Rainbow Wahine Fall Classic and records many team “bests” By Peter Hockaday Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon women’s golf team improved by one place on the final day of the Rainbow Wahine Fall Classic and finished the tourna ment sixth out of 15 teams. The Ducks finished only four strokes behind fifth-place Texas A&M. On Wednesday, Oregon shot a 300, the third-best round of the tournament - by any team. The finish was the best of the Ducks’ fall season, and their last of the season before they resume play in February. The finish wasn’t the only “best” that Oregon recorded at the tournament. The Ducks had their best 18-hole score of the sea son Wednesday and their best first round of a tournament Tues day. Senior Jerilyn White had the Ducks’ best score of the tourna ment, a 231 that put her in a tie for 14th place. Junior Kathy Cho and senior Dawn Berry finished a stroke behind White in a six-way tie for 19th. Sports brief By Inge Scheve For the Emerald The Oregon men's ultimate fris bee team is hosting a 15-team tour nament on the intramural field outside Hayward Field this week end. The 15 teams will start their games Saturday at 10 a.m. and fin ish with the final game at about 2 p.m. Sunday. Oregon is fielding White’s 231 was her best three round score of the season and may have marked the comeback of the Ducks’ best player. Prior to the Fall Classic, White, an All-American candidate before the season start ed, hadn’t put to gether a complete tournament of good scores this season. Seniors Julia Smith (28th) and Claire Hunter (67th) also finished the tourna ment for the Ducks. Senior Kimi Cunninghamcompeted as an in dividual and finished 75th, but two teams to fight for victory against Oregon State, Berkeley and Western Washington, among other teams. For more information, call ulti mate frisbee coordinator Joshua Greenough at 346-9663. her score didn’t count towards the team’s total.No. 16 UCLA won the Fall Classic by five strokes over No. 25 New Mexico. Washington — the only other Pa cific-10 Conference school to compete — finished fourth, three strokes behind third-place San Francisco. Hawaii-Manoa, the tournament’s host, finished last in the 15-team field. Cho played for the Rainbow Wahines for three years before 1166 South A Springfield 20% OFF! The BUZZ for Nov. is FORCES OF NATURE r Midwestern University College of Pharmacy—Glendale Arizona Our 3-year doctor of pharmacy (PharraD.) program is cost effective and time efficient—allowing you to complete your degree and enter the profession in the shortest time possible. Our curriculum pro vides you with early exposure to dinical experi ences, and our faculty are dedicated to your success. 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The deaths of 15-year-old line backers Joshua Miller and Marcus Steele — both from apparent heart problems — have stirred discus sion about whether athletes are screened well enough for such ail ments before they take the field. The mother of another northeast Ohio football player who died re cently because of a heart condition is hoping schools and athletic asso ciations will uniformly require that students be asked about family medical history during physicals. Linette Derminer said sharing that information and educating ath letes about cardiac conditions “doesn’t cost anything. It’s just go ing to cost a parent, an athlete and a physician some time.” Derminer said her son was born premature and had a heart murmur that a doctor said he had outgrown. Although her family has a history of heart problems and early death, she said she didn’t realize her son was at risk. Some state athletic organiza tions, including the Ohio High School Athletic Association, have forms recommended for use in a pre-participation exam. The forms include questions about allergies, medications and known serious ill nesses but do not ask about family history or heart problems. Deborah Moore, OHSAA assis tant commissioner, said physical exams are required each year but individual schools can require them more often and can use more detailed forms. She said the OHSAA medical ad visory committee in January will consider improving the form. Information was not available Wednesday about whether the two Cleveland area schools use differ ent forms. A message was left at Cleveland Central Catholic, where Steele was a student. Larry Bidlingmyer, athletics director at Barberton High School — Miller’s school — refused to comment. Bruce Howard, spokesman for the National Federation of State High School Associations, said his organization cannot standardize physical exams due to variations of state laws and regulations. The NFHS does advise “a com prehensive inquiry into each stu dent athlete’s medical history” as part of exams. Four high school athletes, in cluding Steele, have died in the United States this school year from heart problems, said Fred Mueller of the National Center for Cata strophic Sport Injury Research in Chapel Hill, N.C. If Miller’s death is confirmed as being from a heart problem, he will be the fifth. He collapsed on the sideline Friday night in Barberton, 32 miles south of Cleveland, and initial autopsy results indicated a problem with his heart. i { Just because it’s rare doesn’t mean we can't have preventive steps. Linette Derminer founder Kids Endangered Now ^ y An average of 15 sudden deaths, caused by bodily failures, are re ported each year, Mueller said. However, Dr. Barry Maron of the Minnesota Heart Institute said reli able statistics on the number of heart-related athlete deaths are dif ficult to pin down because of a lack of standardized data. The American Heart Association estimates about 1 in about 200,000 high school athletes die during play. Marcus Steele died Oct. 13 after suffering a heart attack caused by an enlarged heart. Derminer’s son, 17-year-old Ken, died in June dur ing practice at Geneva High School, about 45 miles east of Cleveland, of the same condition. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which the Heart Association says is the cause of about one-third of sud den deaths in athletes, also was re sponsible for the death of Universi ty of Loyola Marymount basketball star Hank Gathers during a 1990 game. In Barberton, about 400 relatives, students and school officials crammed into Lakeview United Methodist Church for Miller’s fu neral. His teammates and fellow Cj PLEASE RECYCLE students hugged each other as they were encouraged to live the rest of their lives for their friend. At Steele’s memorial, about 700 people crowded into a St. Stanis laus Roman Catholic Church for a Mass where Bishop Anthony Pilla urged youngsters to follow in Steele’s footsteps by being enthusi astic students. Maron said high schools and col leges should improve their levels of screening through inquiry into fam ily history. “You can’t suggest a per fect system, but it’s a better system because more at-risk students are identified,” he said. A survey released earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found screen ing programs at the nation’s col leges fail to pay enough attention to athletes’ family histories. 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