UO rugby beats opponents,
baseball loses weekend trio
■ Oregon men’s rugby defeats
OSU but misses nationals, and
men’s baseball loses its first
weekend tournament
By Jesse Thomas
for the Emerald
The Oregon women’s club water
polo team had a great weekend,
winning its regional tournament
and defeating some tough teams in
the process.
First, the Ducks demolished Ore
gon State, 18-2. Then, Oregon de
feated Washington, the defending
national champ ions, 11-8. Next up,
Western Washington lost dead in
the water, 15-3, and the Ducks’ final
win came against Simon Frasier.
“They did an outstanding job,
and it was a good team effort,” Ore
gon coach Lea Bonebrake said.
The weekend leaves the Ducks sit
ting pretty with the No. 1 seed going
into the championship tournament,
where they will face the same teams
as this weekend. In order for the Ore
gon women to go to nationals, they
must win the championships.
“We can’t be satisfied with this
weekend,” Bonebrake said. “We
need to keep the hunger.”
Men’s Rugby wins Civil War
Well, through it all, the Oregon
men’s rugby team didn’t advance to
the national tournament.
But things did end on a positive
note, with the Ducks defeating
arch-rival Oregon State, 29-25, this
past weekend.
“We gave them the scores that
they got, and we are a way better
team,” Oregon coach Bob Snyder
said.
The Ducks did their part in doing
what they had to, but needed Wash
ington to defeat Central Washing
ton and it just didn’t work. Central
won that game against the Huskies
16-12.
“It was a great season, and we are
looking forward to next season al
ready,” Snyder said.
The men still have a few more
games, though, and will play Col
orado at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at
Southbank Field.
Last fall, the Ducks were spank
ing Central 31-5 at halftime, but the
Wildcats came back strong to win
that game in the end. If the Ducks
had won, would they have made
nationals? No one will ever know.
Agent shrugs rumors
of Jordan comeback
NEW YORK - Could Michael
Jordan’s next big acquisition for
the Washington Wizards be...
Michael Jordan?
Citing a source identified only
as being “very close to Jordan,”
Sports Illustrated columnist Rick
Reilly reported in this week’s edi
tion the former NBA great is “90
percent committed” to making a
comeback next season with the
Wizards.
A Jordan comeback has been fu
eled by reports he is working out -
with some saying he was spending
up to six hours a day in a gym to
get back into playing shape.
Jordan told The Washington
Post on March 8 that a comeback
“has not crossed my mind, but I
will never say never.”
“The first time I said never, I
ended up coming back, but I can
say that there's a 99.9 percent
chance that I am not coming
back,” he said.
Jordan’s agent, David Falk,
ridiculed the report.
“I think that there is less than
one-tenth of 1 percent of a chance
that Michael will play again in
the NBA. When you hit the last
shot in the last second of his last
game for a three-peat, how do
you top that?” Falk told the
Boston Globe.
“He wouldn’t play for the vet
eran minimum; he’d play for the
Michael Jordan minimum," Falk
said. “And that would only come
about if every team chipped in $2
million or $3 million because
that’s how much it would mean.
But money isn’t the issue. I wish
you would print this so we can
put an end to all this foolish
ness.”
Falk wasn’t the only one dis- >
crediting the SI story. Maureen
Nassar, director of PR for the
Washington Wizards, said as far as
the team knows, there is no truth
to the report.
Nassar added the Wizards
would love for Jordan to come
back, but the team has not received
any notice of a plan by Jordan to
return.
C 4 The first time I said
never, I ended up coming
back, but I can say there's
a 99.9 percent chance that
I am not coming back.
Michael Jordan
former NBA player
Jordan told the Post that the
main reason he has no intention
of playing is that he would have
to sell his interest in the Wizards,
which he does not want to do.
He owns between 5 percent and
10 percent of the team, with the
option of owning up to 20 per
cent.
He acknowledged to the Post
that he has been working out, but
only because he is up to 240
pounds and wants to “get back to a
respectable weight to help me get
back into my suits.”
Jordan, who last played in 1998,
did not return a telephone call
Tuesday from The Associated
Press.
He is not in Washington - Jor
dan still spends most of his time at
his Chicago home - and the team
does not expect him to attend
Wednesday’s Wizards home game
against Detroit.
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Men’s Baseball goes 0-3 to
open season
Strike 1, 2, 3... and you ’re out.
This is what happened to the
Oregon men’s baseball team as it
went 0-3 in weekend play.
The Ducks first played Utah
State and lost 4-2, after the score
was tied at 2-2 in the 6th inning.
Then Eastern Washington scored
three runs in the top of the seventh
and the Ducks could only answer
with one run and were defeated 4
5. Strike 3 came against Montana,
where the men lost 10-0.
“We played exceptional, but the
late innings cost us,” Oregon play
er/coach Kurt Langworthy said.
Many of the men stepped up,
though, and played strong, includ
ing catcher Keyon Maljai and along
with center fielder Shanti Perry and
first basemen Ryan O’Donnell, who
were both strong hitters. Pitcher Re
gan Schaller allowed only two runs
in five innings against Utah and
pitcher Langworthy went four in
nings, allowing no runs against
Washington.
The Ducks have some work to do
on offense, according to Langwor
thy, but there is still a long season
ahead.
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