Golfers struggle on day one
■A rough 11th hole costs the
Ducks strokes and leaves
them with plenty of work to
do in the final two rounds
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
The good news? Well, let’s start
with the bad news first.
The Oregon men’s golf team
stubbed its toe on the first day of the
NCAA West Regional Thursday,
shooting a 14-over-par 302 to finish
tied for 21st.
Remember, of the 27 teams com
peting on the Trysting Tree Golf
Course in Corvallis this week, only
those that finish in the top 10 get to
advance to the coveted NCAA
Championships.
The Ducks’ top finishers were
sophomore John Ellis and junior
Brandon Hamden, although their
identical 3-over 75s have them tied
for 74th overall among individuals.
So, once again, the good news?
That would be that while most Ore
gon students were probably still
sleeping this morning, the Ducks
were teeing off at 8:15 a.m. and hav
ing the opportunity to put Thursday’s
subpar round behind them.
The other good news for Oregon
is that one round does not make a
tournament, although Oregon
head coach
Steve Nosier
knows that his
team has some
serious ground
to make up today
and Saturday.
“We’ve cer
tainly got our work cut out for us,”
Nosier said. “We’ve got to get after
it tomorrow. We need to step up,
play like we’re capable of and shoot
a good score.”
There was no doubt amongst the
team members what part of Thurs
day’s round affected them the most:
the 11th hole. All five Ducks shot a
combined 6 over par on that one hole
with the wind accounting for most of
the problems.
“We’re not going to play 11 that
poorly again, so we’ve got to remem
ber that we’re still in this thing,”
Harnden said. “We need to put two
good rounds together and that’s what
you need to get to nationals.”
While the Ducks are 11 places out
of the qualifying 10th place, they
have reason to believe they can come
back, since they are only nine strokes
behind lOth-place Pepperdine.
Arizona State (283) holds an ear
ly one-stroke lead over Stanford,
with Wake Forest, Arizona, UCLA
and San Diego State all within
striking distance. Host Oregon
State also shot a solid round of golf
and sits in a tie for seventh place
with Washington at 290.
Other Duck finishers included Al
bany natives Aaron Byers and Chris
Carnahan, who both are tied for 92nd
after shooting 76, as well as senior
Matt Genovese (tied for 106th, 77).
Harnden provided the spark for
the Ducks with his back-to-back
birdies on holes 13 and 14, and he ex
pects his team to show much im
provement today.
“I made a lot of putts today, and I’m
pretty happy with that,” Harnden
said. “But that’s about all I had going
today. I know every one of us can eas
ily drop a few strokes tomorrow.”
Duck soccer scores three more
■The Ducks continue to bolster their team
with three more top high school recruits
By Jeff Smith
Oregon Daily Emerald
College coaches are always looking to entice top
high school talent from out of state to come join their
programs.
Oregon soccer head coach Bill Steffen continued that
trend Thursday by announcing the signing of two new
recruits from California and one from
Hawaii.
Defender Kristen Kanopka and
goalkeeper Domenique Lainez are
the Californians, while forward
Nicole Garbin will be making the trip
to Eugene all the way from Maui.
The three new additions join the
five already signed this off-season to form a solid 2001
recruiting class for the Ducks, who went 4-15-1 last sea
son and just 1-7-1 in the Pacific-10 Conference.
Garbin appears to be quite a catch for Oregon. She
was twice selected as the Player of the Year in Hawaii,
and she was awarded that same honor in the Maui
League for four years.
“We’re tremendously excited about her potential,”
Steffen said. “We lose some players from the central
midfield position, and Nicole is an extremely capable
player in that role. The timing is great for her to step in.
She can really help us in a lot of areas.
“She’s very competitive, and she likes to win.”
Kanopka could also have the chance to have an im
mediate impact on the Ducks after participating for
Fram, a premier soccer club in Northern California. The
Redondo Beach, Calif., native seems to fit one of the in
gredients that Steffen was searching for.
“She’s an exciting defender with good athleticism,”
Steffen said. “Kristen has a good defending mentality.
She has experience at competing at the highest levels of
soccer.”
The Ducks’ final recruit, Lainez, will add depth to
Oregon’s traditionally strong goalkeeping corps. The
San Bruno, Calif., native also has experience at a high
level as she was a member of the Cal North Olympic
Development Program.
The only question mark about Lainez is whether she
can fully bounce back from a broken foot and a torn an
terior cruciate ligament she suffered last year, but Stef
fen doesn’t believe that’ll be a problem.
“Domenique has a tremendous athletic build and im
pressive quickness,” Steffen said. “She may be a player
that slipped through the cracks, since she’s been injured
this past year. She’s capable of playing at extremely high
levels.”
Oregon opens its 2001 season at home Aug. 31
against Gonzaga.
Women
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straight last-place performance at
this weekend’s Pac-10 meet in
Berkeley, Calif. If the meet were
scored right now, based solely on
season bests, the Ducks would
score 42 points overall, five more
than last season’s 37-point per
formance.
“The points are hard to come by
in this conference,” Oregon head
coach Tom Heinonen said. “There
are some events where the depth is
just astonishing.”
The teams score 10 points for a
first place, eight for a second-place
finish, six for a third and the scor
ing goes down in one point incre
ments to eighth place. The Ducks
have only one athlete who would
win her event based on season
records.
But for Oregon, there’s light at the
end of the Bay Bridge Tunnel. The
Ducks are strong in several field
events, and if athletes in those
events can improve this weekend,
Oregon could finish seventh or
even sixth.
The deepest units — and for the
Ducks, the ones most likely to score
multiple points — are the pole
vaulters, javelin throwers, hammer
throwers and discus throwers.
Oregon junior Niki Reed leads
the vaulters and will face stiff com
petition in the event.
“The Pac-10 has one of the tough
est vaulting fields I’ll see all season,”
Reed said. “But I like a challenge. If I
just had to jump my opening height
to win, it wouldn’t be tun. ”
Reed, ranked fourth in the confer
ence, leads a group of five vaulters
into the competition.
“The pole vault’s been a really
good event for us this year,”
Heinonen said.
Another strong crew for Oregon
is the javelin throwers. Led by fresh
man standout Sarah Malone, the
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unit includes sophomore Charyl
Weingarten, senior Sara Dinsmore,
senior Karis Howell and sophomore
Jordan McDaniels. Malone is first in
the conference and second in the
nation, while Weingarten is fifth in
the conference.
Despite going head-to-head with
some of the nation’s top javelin ath
letes, Malone said she isn’t feeling
the pressure.
“I feel some pressure, but not too
much,” Malone said. “I’ll see the
sam§ sort of competition at the Pac
1 Os as the NCAAs.”
Mary Etter, Oregon’s top discus
thrower, is also looking to score big at
the Pac-lOs. Etter is currently ranked
second in the Pac-10 and seventh in
the nation. If she can surpass UCLA’s
Chaniqua Ross, she will gain an ex
tra two points for the Ducks.
Joining Etter in the discus are sen
ior Maureen Morrison, ranked
eighth in the conference, freshman
Jamie Burk and McDaniels. Morri
son could also compete in the ham
mer throw, while McDaniels will
pull triple duty in the hammer, dis
cus and javelin.
On the track, the Ducks are led by
senior distance runner Hanna Smed
stad and sophomore Eri McDonald.
Smedstad, a transfer from Okla
homa State who joined the Ducks
this season, ranks fourth in the Pac
10 in the 10,000-meter race. Smed
stad is also among the conference
leaders in the 1,500.
McDonald qualified for the 800,
in which she ranks eighth, and
also qualified for the 1,500 with
Smedstad.
All told, Heinonen hopes this
year’s team can avoid repeating
history.
“We’re a young team,” Heinonen
said. “But I think we can do better
this year.”
With a little improvement, a little
luck and a lot of skill in the right
places, the Ducks might be able to
do just that.
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