UO softball looks
for new beginning
■With a new coach, Oregon
softball starts its season today
in hopes of rebounding from a
tumultuous 2001 season
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
After a dismal 2001, which fea
tured a 1-20 Pacific-10 Confer
ence record and the resignation of
the head coach, the Oregon soft
ball team will begin the 2002 sea
son today in Texas.
First-year head coach Brent
Rincon leads the Ducks to the
B&G Properties Tournament host
ed by Southwest Texas State in
San Marcos, Texas. Oregon will
face Houston and Texas Tech on
Friday, Texas A&M Corpus Christi
and No. 17 Southwest Texas State
on Saturday and Texas Tech again
on Sunday.
Rincon took over the job as in
terim head coach after Rick
Gamez resigned in October after
an audit revealed discrepancies of
more than $5,700 in the team’s
travel budget.
Last season’s team (28-40 over
all) was marked with poor team
chemistry, and midway through
the year, senior catcher Kelly
Planche quit for personal reasons.
This year, the team will be with
out three starters who were ex
pected to return.
Juniors Missy Coe and Lisa
Wangler, last year’s Most Valuable
Player and Rookie of the Year, and
sophomore Kate Peterson all have
decided not to play this year for
the Ducks.
Oregon is returning 11 letter
winners and five starters, includ
ing pitcher Connie McMurren,
who pitched
160.1 innings
last year, and
junior infielder
Alyssa Laux,
who hit .353
last season and
was named to
the all-region
team. Laux’s batting average was
second only to Wangler’s .367.
Rincon is beginning his first
year of collegiate coaching after
working as the athletic director at
Tempe High in Arizona. He also
coached Corona Del Sol and Mc
Clintock high schools. Rincon
will have the aid of first-year as
sistants Jennifer Jaime, who won
a Big 12 Championship as a play
er at Oklahoma, and Holly Smith,
who played three years at Arizona
State (1998-2000).
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
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Davis. Then on Dec. 12, Oregon
traveled to Corvallis to face Oregon
State and lost the match 16-16 by
way of criteria “g,” which awards
the win to the team with the most
near-fall points.
In the latest polls, Oregon is
fighting to crack the top-25, listed
as one of the teams receiving votes.
Arizona State is ranked No. 10 by
both Intermat and the coaches’ poll.
The Ducks’ other opponent this
weekend, Boise State, did not make
the coaches poll, but holds the No.
24 slot on Intermat’s rankings.
Last season, Arizona State and
Boise State topped the Pac-10
standings while Oregon placed
fourth, and in the latest Pac-10
rankings, the Sun Devils sit on top
of the conference above Oregon
State, Oregon and Boise State, re
spectively.
In tonight’s meet, the Broncos of
Boise State (6-3 overall, 3-1 Pac-10)
will feature No. 4 Ben VomBaur
(16-3) in the 125-pound weight
class. Boise State’s two other
ranked wrestlers are No. 14 Gabe
Vigil (18-9) at 141-pounds and No.
10 Collin Robertson, who has won
12 matches in a row and is 18-3 at
149 pounds.
VomBaur and Oregon’s Shaun
Williams, who is now ranked No.
12, met three times last season,
with Williams winning twice.
Along with the Broncos’ excel
lent 125-pounder, Williams will
have to face Arizona State’s No. 11
freshman Mike Simpson, who
leads the team with 22 victories
and five major decisions.
Oregon’s 141-pounder, No. 19
Brian Watson, who has jumped
into the national rankings this
week, will also have top competi
tion. After taking on Vigil at Boise
State, Watson will face the No. 1
wrestler in the country in his
weight class, the Sun Devils’ Eric
Larkin (21-2).
Including Larkin and Simpson,
Arizona State has seven ranked
wrestlers in its starting lineup. Two
of the other key matchups during
Sunday’s meet will be at 165
pound and heavyweight classes.
Oregon’s senior captain, Eugene
Harris, is now ranked No. 5 and
will face No. 18 Nick Frost (13-2).
No. 19 Eric Webb, who sat out of
the Ducks’ last two meets against
Pacific and Central Washington
due to his lingering toe injury, is
paired against No. 9 Kellan Fluck
iger (20-6). Webb’s toe will proba
bly still be a factor in the match.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Duo
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think there’s anybody better in the
country.”
Christoffersen’s effort came most
ly on the glass, where he dominat
ed UCLA big man Dan Gadzuric
and other Bruins, and ended with a
career-high 15 boards. He added 14
points for his second career double
double.
“When Chris is controlling the
boards like that, it just adds another
dimension to our offense,” Jackson
said. “He just rises to the challenge.”
Christoffersen continued to shoot
well Thursday night, as he went 7
for-9 from the floor. The “Great
Dane” ranks first among the Ducks
and ninth in the Pacific-10 Confer
ence in field goal percentage, hitting
53 percent of his shots. Jones is right
behind him, and is ranked 10th in
the Pac-10 at 52 percent.
Jones and Christoffersen picked a
good night to explode together.
NBA “Superscout” Marty Blake
was in attendance, and countless
people around the country were
watching on national Fox Sports
Net television. Blake is the Director
of Scouting for the NBA, and is a
longtime pro scout. For the two Ore
gon seniors, the step to the next lev
el could have started Thursday
night in Eugene.
Until that next level, there is still
a lot of basketball to be played, in
cluding the real senior night, against
Washington on Feb. 23. But if nei
ther plays well on that night, they
can reach back to a late January bat
tle when both played like profes
sionals.
Oregon will face Southern Cali
fornia in a battle for the conference’s *
top spot on Saturday.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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