Lorenzo, Malone honored
■Two Ducks are recognized
by the Pac-10 as Oregon’s
track and field teams earn
Athlete of the Week honors
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
For the fifth time this season, a
member of the Oregon men’s track
and field team was selected as the
Pacific-10 Conference Athlete of
the Week.
And for the first time, an athlete
from the women’s team was award
ed with the honor.
Oregon decathlete Santiago
Lorenzo and javelin thrower Sarah
Malone were two of the four hon
orees announced Monday by the
Pac-10.
Lorenzo was recognized as the
top men’s field athlete after secur
ing his first-ever Pac-10 Multi
Event Championship Sunday in
Berkeley, Calif. The junior from
Buenos Aires, Argentina, scored
7,617 points in the 10-event com
petition to capture the crown.
En route to the victory, Lorenzo
finished first in the long jump (22
feet, five 3/4 inches) and 400 me
ters (48.97 sec
onds), while he
took second in
the javelin, pole
vault, shot put
and 100 meters.
Lorenzo is well
on his way to a strong performance
at the NCAAs May 30-June 2 at
Hayward Field.
“I think my conditioning level is
going up day by day, so I think I’m
going to be ready to rock at nation
als at home,” Lorenzo said.
As for Malone, the freshman on
the Oregon women’s team has tak
en the conference and nation by
storm. Malone was selected as the
Pac-lO’s top women’s field athlete
after heaving the javelin a personal
best 174 feet at Saturday’s Oregon
Twilight.
The 174-foot toss gave Malone an
NCAA automatic qualifying mark
and now has her ranked fifth on the
U.S. list in 2001.
The freshman from Newburg
also stands second nationally on
the collegiate level and first among
the American collegiate athletes.
Malone, who broke her own pre
vious school record of 169-3 set ear
lier this year, should be one to
watch at the NCAAs.
First things first, though, and
that’s the main portion of the Pac
10 Championships Saturday and
Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. Malone
will be the favorite to secure a
crown on the women’s side, while
the men currently lead the Pac-10
with 16 points thanks to Lorenzo’s
performance, as well as the third
place showing from Oregon decath
lete Billy Pappas.
Golf
continued from page 7
team that graduated four seniors
last year, and she used a variety of
golfers to fill those positions all sea
son. Next year, Rouillard said, she
will have an older, more experi
enced team that should fill those
holes themselves.
“We’ve got a lot of good returning
players, and several recruits com
ing in,” Rouillard said. “I don’t
want to say who my starting five
will be; they’re all going to have an
equal and fair chance.”
While Rouillard is excited for
next season, it was hard for her to
overlook the season’s most obvious
disappointment, the finish of star
senior Jerilyn White.
White was the only holdover
starter from last year’s senior-laden
team, and she led the team on and off
the course all season. White started
the season slowly but heated up in the
spring and carried that momentum
into the Pacific-10 Conference Cham
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ished ninth in
dividually.
Then, at the
NCAA region
al, White’s put
ter deserted her,
and she fin
ished third of
all individuals
whose teams
did not ad
ROUILLARD
vance. She missed making the
NCAA Championships as an indi
vidual by a mere two strokes.
“If her putting had been any
where near as good as the last two
weeks, Jerilyn would be going to
nationals,” Rouillard said.
Rouillard said she will need to
replace White’s leadership next
year, but that she’s sure “someone
of Jerilyn’s caliber will step up.”
Among those who could make
an impact on next year’s team are
junior Kathy Cho, who played in
every tournament for the Ducks
this year, freshman Lacy Erickson
and sophomore Megan Heckeroth.
The Ducks will also receive an in
flux of recruits for next year’s team, in
cluding two who Rouillard believes
could make an immediate impact.
“I think things will work them
selves out for next year,” Rouillard
said.
As for this season, Rouillard said
all along that she wanted her
golfers to put themselves in a posi
tion to win, and that’s exactly what
they did at the regionals.
“We worked hard this spring and
did everything we could to prepare
for the postseason,” Rouillard said.
“That’s all I could ask.”
Tennis
continued from page 7
missed several matches. The
Ducks’ most improved player,
sophomore Jeanette Mattsson, suf
fered from plantar fasciitis, a heel
ailment.
“We had some unfortunate in
juries that really cost us at the num
ber one spot,” Griffin said. “It’s
tough when you know you could
be winning but aren’t.”
With eight teams ranked in the
top 75 and six advancing to this
year’s NCAA Tournament, the Pac
10 Conference is one of the tough
est in the nation. That, along with a
challenging nonconference sched
ule, made Oregon’s season a tough
one to say the least. All of Oregon’s
17 losses came against top-100 op
ponents. Seven of those losses were
by only one point.
“That took its toll on us mental
ly,” Griffin said. “We couldn’t get
over the hump.”
If you turn Oregon’s seven one
point losses into wins, the Ducks
would have been 12-10 and easily
qualified for the NCAAs.
I-.i The Ducks
aia nave tneir
moments in
2001, though.
Oregon cozied
up to the new
Student Tennis
Center Jan. 27
with a three
match sweep of
UC-Santa Bar
GRIFFIN bara- Boise
State and Port
land. The Ducks also routed Pacif
ic and UC-Irvine in late April for
two inspirational wins.
The future looks bright for the
Ducks, who lose no seniors and
have four scholarships available for
recruiting this summer.
Oregon’s freshmen this season
were two of the best in school his
tory. Courtney Nagle finished the
season with an 18-7 singles record,
good enough for second on the all
time single-season record list. Fel
low freshman Davina Mendiburu
was not far behind in fifth place
with a 16-7 record.
“I was really excited with how
our freshmen played this season,”
Griffin said. “They were our bright
spots this season.”
Returning next season will be
one of Oregon’s largest recruiting
classes in juniors Janice Nyland,
Adeline Arnaud, Valerie Young
and transfer Vickie Gunnarsson.
“I’m looking forward to next year
because I’d love to see our seniors
go out on a strong note,” Griffin
said. “It will be exciting to see.”
The tribe has spoken
No, not that Cleveland baseball team;
we’re talking about Peter Hockaday’s
Weekly Sports Poll, of course. Last
week we asked you which Oregon
athlete would have won “Survivor:
the Australian Outback," had he
or she competed.
Well, most of you '‘intelligent” people
picked the name you recognized and
said the Ducks’ starting quarterback,
joey Harrington, would have won the
$1 million. Harrington received 45.8
percent of the vote, while other
just-as-tough athletes such as
women’s basketball center Jenny
Mowe (25.4 percent), distance runner
Michael Kasahun (23.7) and soccer
standout Chalise Baysa (5.1) lost out
This week, use your heads to figure
out who should coach the Portland
Trail Blazers next year. When this
season's coach, Mike Dunleavy, was
fired last week, rumors flew about
who should coach the tumultuous
team next season.
Now, you make the call. Your choices
are: Magic Johnson, Clyde “the Glide”
Drexler (who has said he won't coach
the Blazers next season, but we in
clude him for fun), John Lucas, Chuck
Daly or former Oregon women’s
basketball coach Jody Runge,
Again, you make the call. Go online
to www.dailyemerald.com and vote
for your favorite candidate.
The brief is over.
Go vote.
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