Sports briefs
Track team signs
three prep stars
The Oregon men’s track and
field team announced the signing
of three of the nation’s top high
school seniors, eligible to be
freshmen for the 2002-2003 colle
giate season.
The Ducks welcome sprinter
Matthew Scherer of Red Hill High
School in Bridgeport, 111., and a
pair of high jumpers — Teddy
Davis of White Salmon High in
White Salmon, Wash., and Jeffrey
Lindsey of Mansfield High in
Mansfield, Texas.
Scherer ranked sixth nationally
in the 400 with a season best of
46.84 that also ranked him fourth in
his class. In the 2001 Illinois 1A
state cHampionships, he placed top
four injfour events.
Lindsey’s 2001 season best of 7
feet-l-inch ranked him fifth nation
ally anjd third in his junior class. A
week later, in the 2001 Texas 5A
state Championship, he took fourth
as a junior (6-8) while competing
with an abdominal muscle injury
that occurred after leaping his per
sonal best the week before.
Davis won the Washington state
2A high jump title (6-11) by a sev
en-inch margin and also scored in
the triple jump (third, 43-6) and
long jump (seventh, 20-6).
—from staff and wire reports
Men’s
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scored a career-high 29 points
against Oregon in January.
Oregon center Chris Christof
fersen noted the importance of
containing Borchardt tonight.
“Last time he got the best of
me,” Christoffersen said of Bor
chardt. “He’s a great player. It’s go
ing to be another challenge for the
big guys to step up.”
Stanford’s most glaring weak
ness this year has been its lack of
depth. Other than Jacobsen, who
averages 21 points per game, and
Borchardt, the Cardinal get 11
points per game from junior
guard Julius Barnes and prompt
ly drop off from there. Stanford’s
other two starters, sophomore for
ward Teyo Johnson and senior
guard Tony Giovacchini, both av
erage four points per contest.
When Stanford came to Eugene,
the Cardinal were as shallow as a
wading pool. Behind Jacobsen’s 32
points and Borchardt’s 29, Stan
ford’s next highest scorer had five.
“The Big Two” accounted for 77
percent of the Cardinal scoring.
But when you cut through the
hype, tonight’s game is about one
thing. Can the Ducks win a key
game on the road to stay on top of
the Pac-10 race? They’ve proved it
once, beating Arizona at the
McKale Center, but now they’ve
got back-to-back chances to beat
marquee teams on the lonely road.
For the players, it’s all about
simplifying the situation.
“It might not be the building,”
Oregon guard Freddie Jones said
about Oregon’s long losing streak
at Maples Pavilion. “We’re going to
have to beat their team more than
beat their arena.”
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
2002 Football Signees
Junior CoHege
David Dixon, DB, 5-9,166, Common,
Calif. (Paiomar College)
Tate Pittman, LB, 6-0,226,
Mechanicsville. Va. (Scottsdale CC)
Junior Siavii, DL. 6-5,335, American
Samoa (Butte College}
Chris Solomona, Dl, 6-5,278. San
Pedro, Calif. (El Camino College)
Kelien Taylor, WR, 6-0,180, San Jose,
Caiif. (City College of San Francisco)
High School
Marques Binns, DB, 5-10,153, Los
Angeles (Dorsey)
Andy Collins, 0&, 6*1,197, Blah,
Wash. (Zillah)
Aaron Gipson, D8.5-8,170, Alta
Loma, Calif. (Etiwanda)
Robert Hamilton, LB, 6-2,195.
Inglewood, Calif. {Westchester)
Cory Larsen, LB, 6-5,222, Gresham,
OrMGHS)
Enoka Lucas, OL, 6-4.287, Honolulu
{Kemehamena)
Parris Moore, DB. 5-11,173, Santa
Ana, Calif
{Fountain Valley)
J.D. Nelson, Athlete. 5*11,186*
Mountain View. Calif. (MVHS)
Haloti Ngata, DL, 6-4,324, Salt Lake
City (Highland)
Shawn PerktnsaOL, 6-5,258,
Pendleton. Ore. (PHS)
Jermaine Randolph, 01,6-5,251,
Fremont. Calif (Serra)
Tareli Rivards, DB,5-19,176, West
Valley City, Utah (Hunter}
Darius Sanders, TE. 6-5,228, Los
Angeles (Lynwood)
Matt Toeaina, RS, 6-2,225, Pago
Pago, American Samoa (Samoana) -
Anthony Trucks, Athlete, 6-1,187,
Antioch, Caiii(AHS)
Terrence Whitehead. Athlete. 5-10,
199, Los Angeles (Crenshaw)
Football
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from El Camino College in San
Pedro, Calif., who was ranked as
the No. 3 junior college lineman
in the country.
“I’m not sure where Chris will
play (on the line), but we’re obvi
ously very excited to have him.
He’s a quality football player who
will make an immediate impact,”
Bellotti said.
With the loss of both starting
defensive backs from last year’s
Fiesta Bowl championship squad,
Bellotti signed five corners this
year, including David Dixon, a 5
foot-9, 166-pound transfer from
Palomar College (Compton,
Calif.), which played for the jun
ior college national champi
onship last season.
Bellotti described this year’s
signing class as an athletic group,
with several players able to play
on both offense and defense.
In particular, Darius Sanders, a
senior at Lynwood High (Calif.),
could end up as a tight end,
where he recorded 25 catches and
six touchdowns last year, or on
the defensive line, where he had
10.5 quarterback sacks.
“Obviously, tight end has been
integral to our success, and we’re
always looking for people that
can play that position,” Bellotti
said. “I told (Sanders), ‘If you can
catch, why waste that?’”
Overall, Bellotti said he was
pleased with this year’s recruiting
class. But despite the team’s suc
cess in recent years — the Ducks
are the winning-est Pacific-10
Conference program in the last
eight years and have consecutive
top-10 finishes — Bellotti has had
some trouble landing top recruits.
ESPN.com didn’t even rate Ore
gon’s recruiting class in the Pac
10’s top-5 this year.
“It’s always harder than I
thought it would be after what
we’ve accomplished here,” he
said. “We don’t have a large, cap
tive local population, so we are
going outside our state for ap
proximately 80 percent of the stu
dent athletes.”
Just two recruits from Oregon
signed with the Ducks.
Of the 13 recruits who attended
the muggy, rainy Civil War game
on Dec. 1, Bellotti said he might
be able to sign three.
“I think the weather on that day
scared the kids,” he said.
Two to four more recruits may
still sign with the Ducks, Bellotti
said. Albert Toeaina, a top offen
sive line prospect, may be one of
them. Toeaina originally com
mitted to Washington, then
changed his mind and agreed to
Oregon State, but Oregon is still
a possibility. His cousin, fullback
Matt Toeaina, has signed with
the Ducks.
Hershel Dennis, one of the top
running back recruits in the coun
try, signed with USC on Tuesday.
He had narrowed his decision
down to the Trojans, Oregon and
Washington.
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