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UO excited about regionals
■Oregon heads to today’s
NCAA regional competition
knowing the course well
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
There have been ups, downs and
in-betweens.
And now, the No. 22 Oregon
men’s golf team is hoping to close
out its season on a
high note as it en
ters today’s NCAA
West Regional
tournament.
The Ducks will
be one of 27 teams
competing at the
Trysting Tree Golf Course in Corval
lis in the three-day competition. The
ultimate goal for all schools involved
is to finish in the top-10 and thus
move on to the prestigious NCAA
Championships on May 30-June 2 in
Durham, N.C.
If Oregon, who is the West’s fifth
seed, doesn’t secure a top-10 finish,
then its season will be done. But
thoughts of not advancing aren’t
even creeping into the players’
minds. In fact, sophomore John El
lis insists that the Ducks’ goal is to
win it all this week.
“We’re not going in with the atti
tude to just take top-10; that’s not
right,” Ellis said. “When we tee it up
Thursday morning, all we should be
trying to go after is first place.”
Oregon head coach Steve Nosier
is finishing up his ninth year as
coach, and this will be the sixth
time in that span that he has led the
Ducks to the NCAA West Regional.
He also guided Oregon to back-to
back NCAAs in 1998 and ’99 and
feels this year’s team ranks right up
there with those teams.
“We have a tremendous opportu
nity here to go on and play at nation
als,” Nosier
said. “None of
these guys
have any idea
what an honor
and thrill it is
to play at the
NCAA Cham
pionships.
That was the
goal at the be
ginning of the
season, and we
have the ability to achieve that goal
right within our grasp.”
One of the advantages the Ducks
will have in the regional is that it
takes place on a course with which
they are already familiar. Oregon
competed on the Trysting Tree course
in its first tournament of the year, the
Sept. 11-12 Northwest Classic. In that
competition, Oregon sophomore
Chris Carnahan captured the first in
dividual crown of his career.
Carnahan and junior teammate
Aaron Byers know the Corvallis
course inside and out, as they are
both Albany natives and have
played there many times.
“I’ve had a lot of good rounds there,
and hopefully, the home course ad
vantage will pay off,” Byers said.
The Northwest Classic, though,
was played way back in September,
and as Nosier is quick to point out,
“the course is playing nothing like it
did when we were here in the fall. ”
“The tees are in the same place,
and the greens are in the same
place, but what you have in be
tween is entirely different,” Nosier
said. “Now, you better be hitting
the fairway because the rough is
such where a ball hit in there is
kind of like a lost ball.
“The rough is so severe. You sim
ply cannot play from the rough.”
The five probable starters for the
Ducks that will try to conquer the
challenging 6,885-yard, par-70 course
include Ellis, Genovese, Carnahan,
Byers and junior Brandon Hamden.
There will be plenty of top-notch
competition from the field, which
includes 10 teams in the top-25.
Among those ranked teams are Pa
cific-10 Conference rivals No. 6
Southern California, No. 14 Ari
zona, No. 24 Washington and No. 4
Arizona State. The Sun Devils are
led by Eugene native Jeff Quinney,
who won the 2000 U.S. Amateur
and played in this year’s Masters.
“The field is very, very tough,”
Nosier said. “It’s going to be a
shootout.”
Sports brief
Philadelphia takes series lead over Toronto
PHILADELPHIA — Allen Iverson stared directly
into Vince Carter’s eyes, seemingly toying with him.
He faked to his left, then to the right, continued to drib
ble, shuffled back and nailed a 3-pointer over Carter’s
outstretched arm.
It was that easy for Iverson on Wednesday night.
The NBA’s Most Valuable Player scored 52 points,
including 29 in the first half, as the Philadelphia 76ers
beat the Toronto Raptors 121-88 to take a 3-2 lead in
the Eastern Conference semifinals series.
To me, [the basket] looked like an ocean,” said Iver
son, who sprained his left thumb during the game. X
rays on the thumb were negative.
Game 6 of the best-of-seven series is Friday night in
Toronto.
Carter scored 16 points and Antonio Davis added 14
for the Raptors, who trail for the first time in the series.
The Associated Press
2001
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