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
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The surprise of the Fall Classic
was the play of No. 17 San Jose
State. The Spartans finished sev
enth, despite being one of three
ranked teams in the tournament’s
field.
The Ducks’ next tournament
will be the Arizona Wildcat Invita
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By Susan Dimauro
Associated Press Writer
BARBERTON, Ohio — Perhaps
the saddest thing about the funeral
Wednesday for a high school foot
ball player was that there was a
similar memorial service in nearby
Cleveland.
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.
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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
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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.
Derminer, who started the non
profit organization Kids Endan
gered Now, said coaches should
also be trained in CPR and the use
of automatic external defibrillators,
which give electric shocks for ab
normal heart rhythms.
“Just because it’s rare doesn’t
mean we can’t have preventive
steps,” she said.
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