Wrestlers compete in NCAAs
■Senior Eugene Harris
earns a fourth-place finish
and All-American status at
the NCAA Championships
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
Concluding his collegiate
wrestling career, Oregon senior Eu
gene Harris finished in fourth
place and earned the status of an
All-American at the NCAA Cham
pionships.
During the weekend of March
21-23, eight members of the
wrestling squad traveled to Al
bany, N.Y., for the tournament.
Ranked as the No. 18 team in the
country heading into the nationals,
the Ducks came way with a 24th
place team finish.
Harris, the No. 7 seed in the
tournament, began with two
straight wins that advanced him to
the championship quarterfinals.
There he faced No. 2 seed Matt
Lackey of Illinois and could not
come up with the upset win, snap
ping his streak of 19 consecutive
wins.
After that loss, Harris won two
straight in the consolation bracket,
which placed him in the third
place match against No. 3 seed Ty
rone Lewis of Oklahoma State.
During the regular season, Lewis
handed Harris a 3-2 defeat on
Dec. 16, one of Harris’s three
losses during the regular season.
Once again, Harris could not
prevail, falling to Lewis 8-2, giv
ing Harris a final season record
of 33-5.
“I'm proud of Eugene and what
he has done this year,” Oregon
head coach Chuck Kearney said.
“To have only five losses with the
type of schedule we had is a tes
tament to what kind of wrestler
he is.”
Shaun Williams, seeded No. 8,
was the other Oregon wrestler
seeded in the national tourna
ment. Leading North Carolina’s
Chris Rodrigues 8-5 with seven
seconds remaining in the match,
Williams was thrown to his back
and eventually pinned with one
tick remaining on the clock. A
win would have assured
Williams of a top-eight finish and
All-American honors along with
Harris.
Prior to his loss to Rodrigues,
Williams was defeated 11-1 in the
championship quarterfinals by
the eventual national champion
Steven Abas of Fresno State.
Oregon’s Tony Overstake (157
pounds) and Brian Watson (141)
also advanced to the second day of
the tournament but could not hang
around long enough to earn top
eight honors.
Overstake earned Oregon’s most
decisive win of the tournament by
defeating Eastern Illinois’s Frank
DeFillippis by a 17-1 (4:59) techni
cal fall in his first match of the
tournament. Overstake then lost to
top-seeded Bryan Snyder of Ne
braska, who lost in the finals to
Minnesota’s Luke Becker.
Watson was pitted against No. 3
seed Sean Gray of Virginia Tech in
the first round and lost 5-0. In the
consolation bracket, Watson de
feated Stanford’s Brad Metzler, 5-2,
before losing to West Virginia’s
Shane Cunanan, 3-2, early on the
second day.
Living legend Cael Sanderson
from Iowa State, who was named
the tournament’s outstanding
wrestler, completed his four-year
undefeated run at the champi
onships by winning his fourth na
tional title. Sanderson’s record of
159-0 was capped by a 12-4 major
decision over Lehigh’s Jon
Trenge.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Sports briefs
Graham hired by Boise State
Oregon men’s basketball assis
tant coach Greg Graham was
hired to be the next head coach at
Boise State, Bronco Athletic Di
rector Gene Bleymaier an
nounced Wednesday.
Graham had served as an assis
tant to head coach Ernie Kent for
five years. This is his second head
coaching job in 20 years on the
sidelines. Graham was the head
coach at Western New Mexico dur
ing the 1984-85 season.
Spring practice underway
The Oregon football squad will
kick off spring practice today, and
the Ducks will begin the search to
fill holes left by star quarterback
Joey Harrington and other depart
ed seniors.
The Ducks will practice 15
Adam Amato Emerald
Senior Shaun Williams (right) was one second away from earning All-American honors at
the NCAA Championships. The Oregon wrestling team came in 24th overall.
times over the next four weeks,
with the practices concluding in
the annual intrasquad Spring
Game, held this year at PGE Park
in Portland. Today’s practice is
scheduled for 4 p.m. but could
change, according to Oregon of
ficials.
Golfers win own tournament
The Oregon men’s golf team
kicked off the spring season by win
ning their own Oregon Invitational
at the Shadow Hills Country Club in
Junction City over spring break. The
Ducks won by one stroke.
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