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Sports brief
Oregon golfers
head for Hawaii
The Oregon men’s golf team trav
els to Hawaii for the 12th Annual
Taylor Made/Waikoloa Intercolle
giate beginning today in Kona,
Hawaii. The Ducks will send sen
iors Aaron Byers and Chris Heniff,
juniors John Ellis and Chris Carna
han and sophomore Mike Sica into
action on the 6,594-yard, par-72
Waikoloa Kings’ Course.
Seven teams ranked among the
nation’s top 25 are included in the
24-team field, highlighted by No. 1
Georgia Tech, No. 7 Texas Christian
and No. 9 Southern California.
Also in the field are No. 10 Fresno
State, No. 14 Washington, No. 15
Oklahoma and No. 22 Pepperdine.
Last week, Fresno State captured
the team title at the Ping Arizona
Intercollegiate.
“It’s a pretty competitive field,”
said Oregon coach Steve Nosier,
who is in his tenth season with the
Ducks. “Last week Sica and Heniff
pulled through for us. If the whole
team can play at that level, we. can
beat some of these teams we’re
competing against for NCAA re
gional seeding.”
The same Duck squad finished
tied for 11th last week at the Ping
Arizona Intercollegiate in Tucson,
Ariz. Ellis proved to be Oregon’s
top finisher, tying for 22nd, and
Sica tied a career-low with a final
round of 69. Sica finished the tour
nament tied for 29th with rounds of
72-75-69-216.
—from staff and wire reports
Basketball
continued from page 5
in the final month of this wild
Pac-10 race.
While Oregon gets to rest on
Valentine’s Day and prepare for
Saturday’s Civil War, the rest of
the eight teams will all be going
head-to-head.
The series that will probably
have the most impact on the
standings this week are the Ari
zona schools visiting Los Angeles.
The Wildcats are hot after doing
what the Ducks couldn’t — beat
ing Stanford and Cal on the road
— and then following that up by
taking care of the Washington
schools at home.
Thursday night, they’ll need to
be ready for a fired up UCLA team
that is coming off a 58-57 loss at
Villanova. The Bruins will be out
to avenge their 96-86 defeat at Ari
zona on Jan. 18 in a game they
once led by 20.
“There’s no question that they
really let this one here get away,”
Arizona head coach Lute Olson
said. “I am sure they are excited
about us coming in. They are very
good when they want to be good.”
Sound familiar?
A few days after losing at UCLA,
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67-65, on Feb. 6, USC point guard
Brandon Granville was still frus
trated with his team’s inability to
win the close game.
The Trojans had been tied for
first place with Oregon, but
dropped down after losing at
McArthur Court, 73-69, on Feb. 2.
Also, they had lost at Cal on Jan.
24 in a 92-91 overtime thriller.
“I hope we don’t dwell on it
and we can get past it,” Granville
told The Los Angeles Times.
“None of us have really been in
this situation before, so close in
three games. It’s like, with those
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games (as wins), we’d be 19-3 and
top-10 in the nation.
“We’re just concentrating on
buckling down those last minutes
of the game, really concentrate on
putting all your energy and focus
on coming out with the victory.”
Bracketology
During their Tuesday morning
teleconferences with reporters,
the coaches of the top six teams
in the Pac-10 standings all
agreed that, at this time, all six
teams deserve to be invited to the
NCAA Tournament.
“If they chose the teams today,
I’d feel very confident that those
six teams would be in,” Braun said.
ESPN.corn’s Joe Lunardi
agreed, as all six teams showed
up in his weekly “Bracketology,”
where he predicts the entire field
of the Big Dance.
Despite losing twice over the
weekend, the Ducks stayed a pro
jected fifth seed, but moved to the
bracket in Albuquerque, N.M.
Oregon is projected to play
12th-seed Mississippi State on
March 14.
Selection Sunday is less than a
month away.
E-mail assistant sports editor Jeff Smith
at jeffsmith@dailyemerald.com
Hager
continued from page 5
glowing lights, and hockey its bone
chilling ice—but baseball has it all.
To spend one day at the old held,
soaking up the sun’s rays and sip
ping a Coke while watching your fa
vorite team play, well, is bliss.
What makes spring training even
greater is that every major league
team reports to Arizona and Florida
with a full belief that it has the
chance to win it all. Sure, the New
York Yankees can rest assured that
this will be the case come Septem
ber, but at least everyone gets the
feeling in February and March.
And yes, this means even the
Cubs and the Red Sox.
But didn’t it just feel like the Yan
kees and Arizona Diamondbacks
were capping off one of the most his
torical World Series of all? It wasn’t
even 100 days ago that Curt Schilling
and Randy Johnson were standing at
the podium as co-MVP’s.
That, however, really doesn’t
matter. Spring training is a magical
place. Thirty-five-year-old stars
mingle with newly drafted 19-year
olds for a month that is the closest
thing to spiritual that professional
sports can bring.
It is the time of the year where
men can be boys.
Forget contracts, forget labor ne
gotiations, even forget starting rota
tions. Spring training is the closest
thing to purity on Earth. Baseball is
paramount during spring training.
That’s hard to find these days.
Bring on the crackling sounds of
baseball spikes on cement. Bring on
the screams of the peanut vendor.
Bring on the umpire calling out,
“Play Bah.”
I’m ready.
E-mail sports reporter Hank Hager
at hankhager@dailyemerald.com.