Duck softball falls to Washington, No. 1 UCLA
■ Oregon, still winless in the in
the Pac-10, falls to Washington
7-0 on Friday and UCLA 6-0
Saturday and 3-1 Sunday
By Chris Cabot
Oregon Daily Emerald
The long trudge through the Pa
cific-10 Conference season contin
ues for the Oregon softball team.
The Ducks have lost 12 consecu
tive conference games this season to
drop fheir record to 18-21 overall (0
12 Pac-10). They have lost 32
straight Pac-10 games dating back to
April 1,2001.
The Ducks began their trip on Fri
day with a 6-0 loss to No. 9 Wash
ington, where they could only tally
three hits against a combined pitch
ing Washington pitching effort of
Ashley Boek and Leslie Scott. Boek
threw the first five innings, striking
out eight and walking only one.
Scott did not allow a runner to reach
base in her two innings. Only three
Oregon runners advance to second
and the Ducks went down in order
in four of seven innings.
“We were not ready to play soft
ball today, and in this conference,
you have to be prepared,” Oregon
head coach Brent Rincon said. “We
made some lack of intensity type of
errors and good teams will take ad
vantage of that.”
Freshman Lindsey Kontra threw
four innings, allowing six runs, two of
which were unearned. She gave up
eight hits and two walks with five
strikeouts. Anissa Meashintubby re
lieved Kontra in the fifth and pitched
two perfect innings, striking out three.
Washington’s record, after two
wins over No. 14 Oregon State on Sat
urday and Sunday, now stands at 37
13 overall and 6-5 in the Pac-10.
After flying from Seattle to Los An
geles, the Ducks lost another one
sided game on Saturday. No. 1 UCLA
(40-6 overall, 8-3 Pac-10) blanked
Oregon 7-0 behind a strong pitching
performance by Amanda Freed, who
improved her record to 17-2. Allow
ing only four hits and two walks,
Freed struck out 11 Oregon hitters.
Oregon battled back with a better
effort on Sunday but again fell short
losing the game 3-1.
“I thought we played very well
both offensively and defensively,”
Rincon said Sunday. “We had our
chances and were able to score, but
UCLA is a top ball club. ”
After the Bruins scored in the first,
Alyssa Laux drove in Lakeesha Ever
sley in the third inning to knot the
game. The run broke the Ducks’
scoreless innings streak of 17 innings.
UCLA came back with a run of
their own in the third from a Claire
Sua home run. They tallied an in
surance run in the fourth on a Kon
tra wild pitch that deflected off the
plate and into the UCLA dugout,
scoring Erin Rahn.
The loss dropped Kontra’s record
to 5-10, while Keira Goerl improved
to 21-4.
Oregon continues its road trip
with a double header today at Port
land State beginning at 4 p.m.
E-mail sports reporter Chris Cabot
at chriscabot@dailyemerald.com.
Oregon men’s golf team continues streak at U.S. Intercollegiate
■The Ducks finish in the
top six for the fifth straight
tournament Sunday
By Jesse Thomas
for the Emerald
The Oregon men’s golf team now
has its fifth straight top six finish af
ter placing fourth at the U.S. Inter
collegiate on Sunday.
The Ducks’ final round 287 gave
them a total 865 for the tournament,
finishing just behind UCLA at 862.
USC won the tournament with 848
followed by Stanford in second, 10
strokes behind.
Junior Chris Carnahan blazed
through the final round with a 67 to
finish in a tie for 11th at 215. Junior
John Ellis had a
rough last round
of 77 to fall to a
tie for 23rd, fol
lowed by sopho
more Mike Sica
in a tie for 45th,
who also shot 67
on the day. Se
nior Aaron Byers finished in a tie
for 51st at 225.
After the first two rounds Satur
day, Oregon sat in a tie for third
with UCLA after shooting 578 on
the day. The Ducks’ two rounds of
282 and 296 placed them six
strokes behind Stanford at 572 and
13 strokes behind leader USC.
Ellis shot 69 and 72 to lead the
way for the Ducks to place him in a
tie for fourth, just five strokes back
of leader Phillip Rowe of Stanford.
Byers was tied for 12th at four-over
144 after rounds of 69 and 75, with
Carnahan in a tie for 36th at 148.
Women head
to Pac-10 Championships
Oregon head coach Shannon
Rouillard remembers the scene of the
Pac-10 Championships all too well.
Nine years ago, Rouillard, a
sophomore, helped the Ducks to
their highest finish ever in the Pac
10 Tournament, tying for fourth. On
the same course this week, Oregon
will try and recapture some of that
magic at the Walla Walla Country
Club in Walla Walla, Wash.
The Ducks head into the 2002
tournament as the No. 10 seed in a
conference that also features six
teams ranked among the latest
Golfweek/Sagarin top 20.
“We need to do what we are ca
pable of as a team,” Rouillard said.
“Our mindset is to shoot 305 (each
round) or better and this is a good
test to see if we can do that because
I believe 305 is the magic number at
regionals that will get us to the na
tional championships.”
Oregon’s lineup includes senior
Kathy Cho at No. 1, followed by
freshmen Jess Carlyon and Johnna
Nealy, sophomore Lacy Erickson,
freshman Jaime Seefried and junior
Kim Melrose.
The tournament begins today
and goes through Wednesday, with
teams playing 18 holes each day.
Oregon finished ninth in the Pac-10
last year.
Jesse Thomas is a freelance reporter
for the Emerald.
Sports briefs
Curry goes pro
The wait is over for former Ore
gon guard Edniesha Curry. The
Palmdale, Calif., native was se
lected by the WNBA’s Charlotte
Sting in the third round (41st
overall) on Friday.
Curry was the third player from
the Pacific-10 Conference to be
chosen, following Oregon State’s
Felicia Ragland (28th, Seattle) and
Stanford’s Lindsey Yamasaki
(29th, Miami).
Tm just in shock right now,”
Curry said. "This has been a dream
come true to be in a position to play
professional basketball, especially
in the United States.”
After spending her first three
seasons at Cal State Northridge,
where she earned the Big Sky
Conference’s Freshman of the
Year honor following the 1997-98
season, Curry transferred to Ore
gon in 2000. Curry averaged 9.8
points and 3.3 assists last season
for the Ducks.
“I’m not nervous anymore,” Cur
ry said about waiting for her selec
tion. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s
getting later and later and later.’
Charlotte wanted me and its a good
spot. I have a good chance of mak
ing that team and playing behind
Dawn Staley.”
Curry is the third Oregon player
to be drafted in the WNBA, joining
Jenny Mowe, who played for the
Portland Fire after being drafted in
the second round last season, and
Angelina Wolvert, who was drafted
by the Cleveland Rockers with the
43rd pick last year, but currently
plays in Italy.
— Hank Hager
Kent hires new assistant
When assistant coach Greg Gra
ham left the Oregon basketball
team to accept the head coaching
position at Boise State, head coach
Ernie Kent worked quickly to fill
the vacancy.
Kent plugged the hole left by Gra
ham with John Cooper, a former as
sistant to Eddie Fogler at South Car
olina. Cooper coached at South
Carolina for six years.
“In the short time he was here in
town (for his interview), we felt like
we had known John for the last 10
years,” Kent said. “I think he is going
to be a great addition to our staff.”
Cooper, who graduated from
Wichita State in 1991, was a star
forward for the Shockers and
scored 1,153 points over his ca
reer. He played in the Continental
Basketball Association and in Eu
rope before working as an assis
tant coach at Division II Fayet
teville State in Fayetteville, N.C.
From there he was hired by
Fogler, who was Cooper’s head
coach at Wichita State.
Cooper said he was “elated” to
join the Oregon staff.
“Ernie has done a great job with
the program, and coming off the
year that Oregon had makes it a lit
tle more special to have the oppor
tunity to join a staff that has taken a
program to the level it is,” Cooper
said. “I just hope to come in and
add a little bit to it.”
— Peter Hockcidciy
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